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David Holt & Suzanne Nacha @ loop Gallery, 1273 Dundas Street West
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loop Gallery is pleased to announce exhibitions by David Holt and Suzanne Nacha
loop Gallery is pleased to announce exhibitions by loop members David Holt entitled Landscapes and Subjects from Natural History, and Suzanne Nacha entitled Signs for Travelers.
David Holt’s paintings in his third show at Loop depict landscapes as well as motifs derived from displays of birds, antiquities, and other collections found in museums of natural history. Many of the works playfully reinterpret the grid-like arrangements of objects in museum display cases while others elaborate on concepts of ideal landscapes, from both Eastern and Western classical traditions. Taken together, the works explore our ideas about nature, culture, and memory.
A painter who has had many solo and group shows in the US, David Holt has been the recipient of a painting grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and an artist residency at the Ragdale Foundation. Holt lives and works in Toronto where he teaches art at Upper Canada College.
In a classically inspired narrative that looks at the idea of passage as both a means of access and a turning point or crossroads, Suzanne Nacha’s series of paintings entitled Signs for Travelers offers up a simplified visual logic that acts as a mirror to the human condition. Dark humour prevails as anthropomorphic forms evolving from underground tunnels, caves and rail systems play at the boundary between visual sign and physical trigger.
Suzanne Nacha is a visual artist working in painting, sculpture and installation. Through the systematic abstraction and anthropomorphism of industrial and natural landscapes, she seeks to make iconic images that act at times, as psychological mirrors to human experience. Born in Hamilton Ontario, she holds undergraduate degrees in both Geology and Fine Art from McMaster University and the University of Guelph respectively, as well as an MFA from York University in Toronto. She has taught in the Fine Art departments of OCAD, Sheridan/UTM and York University, and for the past fifteen years has worked in the mining industry mapping geographies of fortune and need.
Please join the artists in celebrating the opening reception on Saturday, October 15th from 2-5 pm.
Learn more about David Holt and Suzanne Nacha’s work during a Question & Answer Session at loop on Saturday October 15th at 1pm. Moderated by Patrick Macaulay.
Find out more on the loop blog at loopgallery.blogspot.com.
Starts: Oct 15, 2011 Ends: Nov 6, 2011
At: loop Gallery, 1273 Dundas Street West, Toronto
Playing: Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Times: Wed – Sat 12 to 5pm & Sun 1 to 4pm.
Cost: Free
Getting there:
505 Dundas Street Car
location: 1273 Dundas Street West (3 doors west of Dovercourt)
For more information contact:
Julia Dupuis
Phone:
416-516-2581
Email:
loopgallerySPAMFILTER@primus.ca
