The Monte Clark Gallery Toronto is pleased to present an exhibition of work by a selection of gallery artists, running August 5 - September 11, 2004. The gallery has been in operation for 13 years in Vancouver and in Toronto since 2001, having established a reputation for representing the best of contemporary artists, mostly from the west coast of Canada.
Roy Arden, one of our senior artists, is highly regarded within Canada and abroad as a photographer and curator. His photographs documenting the 'landscape of economy' have been exhibited internationally and his early work continues to inform both his own practice and those of a younger generation of artists.
One of the rising stars of that generation is Karin Bubas, a young photographer whose work has been attracting considerable interest from collectors across the country. Her delicate eye for observation and sensitivity toward lighting define her work, whether it be the eerie glow of her nocturnes or the natural lighting of her grandparent's home.
Chris Gergley is another of Vancouver's exciting young artists whose apartment building facades are empty vessels void of human presence, with such gilded names as El Mirador and Casa del Mar, waiting to be physically and psychologically fulfilled.
Scott McFarland's work is strongly conceptual in nature. The image bears direct relation to Scott's exhaustive thought process. Photographs of a boathouse echo the concerns of early modernist photographers, and through barely perceptible alterations in lighting his work seeks to restore the 'truth' of an original moment.
The photographs of the human figure in Stephen Waddell's work draw attention to the practice of the artist as an observer, as a romantic. Stephen is also a painter and thus composes his photographs in a painterly fashion, through careful composition and colour. The skill in capturing a precise, perfect moment is what makes his work unique.
The poignancy in Howard Ursuliak's photographs is such that a pile of mattresses evoke young women from another era, or an empty diner counter sits in stillness midway between its past and its future, having been given, like many of the spaces and commodities in Ursuliak's work, a new lease on life.
Holger Kalberg is a Vancouver based painter. His serenely beautiful yet disquieting imagery captures a sense of isolation and alienation that can exist in the urban landscape, primarily through the depiction of private homes and suburban recreation centers.
Derek Root references the history of art and popular culture simultaneously, drawing attention to the manner in which history often becomes artificial through nostalgic pen and ink drawings, oil paintings and wax monochromes.
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