Libby Hague
Synchromesh
March 30th – April 21th, 2013
Reception: Saturday, March 30th, 2- 5 PM
Artists’ Tea Party with Sung Ja Kim Chisholm
Sunday, April 14th, 2- 4 PM
loop Gallery is pleased to announce a new exhibition by loop member Libby Hague entitled Synchromesh.
Moving backward and forward in time, the artist connects her most vivid visual memories of growing up in Quebec with her current studio practice. Borduas, Riopelle, Pellan, Molinari's ink drawings, ceinture fléchée, the Main, red and silver roofs, winter, the river, the forests in winter, the forests in autumn, birch trees, church steeples, the cross on the mountain, stained glass, her family together...all slide easily into her print and sculpture studio work and emerge from an incremental additive process that moves towards complex recollected sensations. Like a net cast over different elements, thread, rope and wire combine to hold these past and present components in a delicate tension, presenting an abstracted view of Quebec from afar, but close to the heart of an Anglophone who left. In the ongoing debate about the place and role of non- Francophones in Quebec, Hague considers what Quebec means to an English artist.
The exhibition will also feature "Backbone", a new expandable, suspended sculpture made of rope and 24 pulleys suspending in turn, its own internal collection of smaller sculpture.
Hague studied fine art at Concordia. Recently, she completed a residency in Ireland and exhibited at the Galati Visual Art Museum, Romania; Chung Shan National Gallery, Taiwan; Impact 7, Melbourne, Australia; IPCNY (NY and Austin) and The Civic Art Museum, Cremona, Italy. Her most recent shows in Toronto were Be Brave! We are in this together, YYZ, 2012, Gravity Drawings, Loop 2012 and Sympathetic Connections at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 2011. She is represented in many public collections including the Donovan Collection at the University of Toronto.
Please join the artist in celebrating the exhibition opening on Saturday, March 30th from 2-5 PM. Don’t miss the Artists’ Tea Party at loop with Sung Ja Kim Chisholm on Sunday, April 14th from 2-4PM.
For more information, visit: www.libbyhague.com Image: Acting on Impulse, woodcut, rope, wire, cord and acrylic on wood panel, 11 x 14 x 2 in, 2013
Sung Ja Kim Chisholm
Hope
March 30th – April 21th, 2013
Reception: Saturday, March 30th, 2- 5 PM
Artists’ Tea Party with Libby Hague
Sunday, April 14th, 2- 4 PM
Sunday, April 14th, 2- 4 PM
loop Gallery is pleased to announce a new exhibition by loop member artist Sung Ja Kim Chisholm entitled Hope.
Kim’s latest body of work endeavours to formally translate the concept of hope. For Kim, the journey through life is a quest to come to know ourselves through our relationships with family and friends. These relationships are shaped by happiness, disappointment, bitterness, lightness, darkness, excitement, and occasionally even by despair. In all circumstances, hope is a sustaining force that allows us to transcend these emotions and continue moving forward.
In Hope, Kim captures a concept tied to the future and suspends it in the present for a momentary aesthetic consideration. Successive layering of various textured materials evokes the differing emotional states of life. Layers of fabric are stacked and built up, much like the present continually envelops the past. Glimpses of bright colour peak through darker hues to remind us of the ongoing renewal of hope throughout life.
Kim is a Toronto-based, Korean-Canadian artist and long-time member of loop Gallery. She has had group and solo shows in galleries in both South Korea and Canada and has also been retained for numerous private commissions. Kim is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design and she teaches art in her studio, as well as at a private school in Etobicoke.
Please join the artist in celebrating the exhibition opening on Saturday, March 30th from 2-5 PM. Don’t miss the Artists’ Tea Party at loop Gallery with Libby Hague on Sunday, April 14th from 2-4PM.
Image: Hope, mixed media, 2013.
