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UPCOMING: BRENDAN MONROE
Brendan Monroe
Observations of Light & Matter
March 2, 2012 - March 25, 2012
Opening Reception / Friday March 2, 2012 / 6 - 10pm
Artist Talk / Saturday March 3, 2012 / 3 - 4pm
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COOPER COLE is pleased to welcome American artists Brendan Monroe for his first solo exhibition in Toronto. Through a series of paintings and sculptures, Monroe tells a story of a world filled with unique personalities and imaginary organisms. Monroe cultivates a taste for scientific challenges, relationships to math, the properties in physics, and the surreal. His dream-like scenes overflow with cellular shapes, creating a landscape set on a universal level. Möbius strips and algorithms integrate with human figures to create an environment that allows the mind to explore a journey of solitude. Monroe's atmospheric imagery achieves a pause in both time and space; a moment that can be read as either the creation of new being or as the passing in to a serene immortality.
Two in One / Acrylic on paper / 18" x 22" / 2011
"Observations of Light and Matter is a way for me to reinterpret the facets of current and past scientific frontiers. The work is sometimes directly derived from scientific observations and at other times loosely inspired by them. My purpose is to ask the questions that lead to an understanding of physics in nature all around us. I often don't completely understand the entirety of every concept, but I'm searching for a way to interpret their possibilities and how they might have an impact on myself and others. My interest is not in explaining or figuring out, but more in the interpretation and injection of perspective of these subjects."
Enclosed String / Cheery Veneer / Variable Dimensions / 2011
Wave / Acrylic on veneered cherry / Variable Dimensions / 2011
Nebula Olympus / Acrylic on paper / 22.75" x 30" / 2011
Brendan Monroe was born and raised in Southern California with a BFA honours from the Art Centre College of Design. He has exhibited his art internationally at galleries such as Richard Heller in Los Angeles and Galerie LJ in Paris. Monroe currently lives and works in Oakland, California.
Brendan Monroe
Observations of Light & Matter
March 2, 2012 - March 25, 2012
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FINAL WEEK: RYAN WALLACE & CHRIS DUNCAN
Ryan Wallace & Chris Duncan
Transmission Lines
February 3, 2012 - February 26, 2012
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This is the final week to view Transmission Lines, a two person exhibition from American artists Ryan Wallace and Chris Duncan. Wallace and Duncan's linear variations of shape explore the margins of time and space while echoing the unstable tension between vision, perception, and reflection. Both artists explore a variety of materials to great visual effect. Mixed mediums create shapes which are layered and duplicated in reference to perpetual movement, hypnosis, op art, and the mutable nature of color. These constructed shapes and surfaces open the dialogue between perception and perspective, making it difficult to interpret the true materials being used as well as the limits of the work itself.
Ryan Wallace / Polemic Series / Installation
Ryan Wallace is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and a recent recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. Wallace's paintings, works on paper, installations and sculptures can be found in galleries, institutions, and collections across North America and Europe. Recent exhibitions have been at Morgan Lehman Gallery, Rachel Uffner Gallery, Zieher Smith, The Islip Art Museum and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Wallace currently lives and works in Brooklyn, and Amagansett, New York.
Chris Duncan / World Wide Web / Strapping tape and spray paint on paper / 32" x 40" / 2011
Chris Duncan received his BFA at the California College of Arts and is a 2013 Master of Fine Arts candidate at Stanford University. In 2006 he won a Goldie Award for Visual Art. His paintings and installation have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in North America such as the Berkeley Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Kemper Art Museum. He has also exhibited internationally in Canada, Belgium, and Japan. Duncan currently lives and works in Oakland, California.
Ryan Wallace & Chris Duncan
Transmission Lines
February 3, 2012 - February 26, 2012
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FINAL WEEK: ANDERS OINONEN
Anders Oinonen
People People
February 3, 2012 - February 26, 2012
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This is the final week to view Toronto-based painter Anders Oinonen's first solo exhibition with the gallery titled People People. Oinonen's unique images blur the line between abstract expressionism and representational painting. Confident brushstrokes are layered to create anthropomorphic landscapes. Color is used to generate space and gradations create a horizon which subtly reveal recognizable facial features. These facial constructions act as a vehicle for abstraction yet are simultaneously a familiar symbol of communication. Oinonen's work is both precisely crafted and mysterious. The ambiguity of the subject matter invites the viewer to questions the artists motives as well as their own personal perspective.
Anders Oinonen / People People / Installation
Anders Oinonen holds a Masters in Fine Art and has exhibited his paintings in galleries and museums across North America. His work can be found in collections such as the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and the Canada Council Art Bank. Oinonen lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.
Anders Oinonen
People People
February 3, 2012 - February 26, 2012
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