Jack Burman
Douglas Walker
William MacDonnell

Opening Reception:
Saturday, April 6th, 3-7pm

6 April - 1 May, 2002

New exhibition presents a "landscape of amnesia".

TORONTO, March 21, 2002 - The Monte Clark Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition, Yesterday, Quicksand. Three Canadian artists confront history, geopolitics and time's march in their approach to the landscape.

Jack Burman, a Toronto photographer, has documented Baroque church naves with large, hyper-detailed images that capture the dizzy splendour of so much gold and exquisite craftsmanship. The photographs also hint at the invisible machinations of power behind such an accumulation of wealth and its extraction from the ground.

Doug Walker, a Toronto painter, presents small fragments of landscapes. With their sanded down, cracked and varnished surfaces, the paintings seem to recede away from the viewer. The images depict small, melancholic moments from an earlier, albeit, invented era.

William MacDonnell's large paintings portray sites of military or historical significance. The 16th century bridge at Mostar, in Bosnia, which was destroyed by bombing in 1993, is quietly memorialized in two views. In one, the bridge's position has only been sketched in. In another, a hastily built pedestrian crossing has inadequately taken its place. His lush, painterly treatment of each betrays the sober reality of the scene in question.

The Monte Clark Gallery, with spaces in Toronto and Vancouver, represents leading Canadian and international contemporary artists, including Roy Arden, Graham Gillmore, Anna Hunt and Scott McFarland.

Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 11-7pm, Sunday, 12-5pm. Monte Clark Toronto is located at the intersection of Queen West and Niagara. Please contact the gallery for images and further information.