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MITTENFISTS
MELINDA JOSIE, JACOB WHIBLEY, ANDREW WILSON
Event Info l Artwork
Opening Reception:
THURSDAY AUGUST 2nd
7-10pm
Location:
Magic Pony Gallery
694 Queen St West , Toronto ON Canada
416.861.1684
Exhibition runs August 2 - 25 2007
Magic Pony presents Mittenfists, a showcase of emerging
artists Melinda Josie, Jacob Whibley and Andrew Wilson. With three
unique approaches to their work, the show will juxtapose nonobjective
and abstract collage work alongside enigmatic landscapes, mythical
creatures, darling pugs, and watchful birds.
The show's title, Mittenfists, alludes to the youthful
aggression in-which they apply their process, production, enthusiasm
and sense of discovery.
Working with paper collage, Jacob Whibley (Team Macho) creates subtle
and abstract compositions that vaguely hint at machined and organic
forms. Composed with paper ephemera from as far back as the late 1800's,
these constructions engage you into deciphering their fragmented colourful
messages. Exploring the theme of interstitial spaces; those "between
spaces", not outside nor inside existing structures and systems, he
envisions what the accumulated detritus, bit rot, colour, and static
might look like.
Andrew Wilson's multi-layered resin paintings depict vast mountainous
scenes while geometric forms, detached mountains, and abstract factories
map their way across the otherworldly sky. It is this imagined terra
firma which sets the stage for his drawings of clustered houses, buildings
and their fantastical occupants - all imagined from some personal
folklore.
Dealing with the more objective, Melinda Josie's detailed paintings
and drawings speak to the youthful imagination in all of us. Hers
is a world where delicately rendered hedgehogs take afternoon naps
in the most exquisitely patterned duvet; while outside of it's towering
mushroom house, a Shiba Inu dog eagerly investigates why the local
squirrels and sparrows are raising such a commotion amongst the doily
laden trees.
From the indefinite to the literal, Mittenfists aims
to be a visual splendor.
Press inquiries:
Please reach us at contact@magic-pony.com
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