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Loop Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by gallery members Rochelle Rubinstein and Lanny Shereck.

In his first exhibition at Loop Gallery, Lanny Shereck overlaps sections of his urban photographs with painted imagery to create an effect which dissolves from realism to pixilation upon close inspection. Shereck’s banal, iconographic images of a garbage truck, gas pump, and playground house, reflect our society’s concerns regarding our trash, our environment, gas prices, and safety.

Rochelle Rubinstein’s printed, painted, and carved images on wood deal with national, and personal security and include suburbia, gas masks and gas nozzles. Her suburbs mutate, choked off by the expense of gas; while the gas masks reflecting both fear and protection proliferate. Her images often overlap, sometimes to the point of obscuring original meanings and dissolving into abstraction and beauty.

Overlap works on two levels: a juxtaposition of two artists' work within the gallery space, as well as the formal and technical aspects of overlapping in two distinct bodies of work. The art of Rubinstein and Shereck also sometimes overlaps narratively, with shared images of old Havana, downtown Toronto, and visuals derived from topical events of the present and of the past.

Rochelle Rubinstein is a printmaker, painter, fabric and book artist who has completed several residencies in Ireland and in New York and has exhibited internationally. She is also a community arts practioner who has worked with youth groups, battered women and people with eating disorders.

Lanny Shereck is an artist and art teacher working in paint and using photographic collage to create images of urban life.

Both artists are also represented by The Fran Hill Gallery in Toronto.

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For more information contact: Loop Gallery
Phone: 416-516-2581
Email: loopgallery@primus.ca

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