loop
April 28 - May 20, 2012
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Adrienne Trent
Nancy Oakes
Reception: Saturday, April 28, 2012, 2 - 5 PM
Walking Drawings
Ground Classification: Without a Trace
loop Gallery
1273 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M6J 1X8 (3 doors west of Dovercourt).
Gallery Hours: Wed - Sat 12 to 5 pm and Sun 1 to 4pm.
Artist is in attendance on Sundays and for the reception.
For more information please contact the gallery director at (416) 516-2581 or loopgallery@primus.ca.
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Nancy Oakes, 'Thurs. Feb. 9, 2012 Queen from Soho to Spadina', gel pen, graphite, tea and wax on paper, 6 X 8.5in, 2012
Illustraton from Paddle-to-the-sea by C.Holling, 1941
loop Gallery is pleased to announce exhibitions by artist Nancy Oakes entitled Walking Drawings and loop member Adrienne Trent entitled Ground Classification: Without a Trace.
In 2006, Oakes began experimenting with “Walking Drawings,” navigating the city streets while simultaneously producing drawings that captured her lived experience as it happened. Later enhanced with graphite, and stained with tea and wax, the final drawings are believable urban scenes composed of elements encountered separately over time and space. This experiential peripatetic strategy exists at the intersection of all four of Oakes’ key interests: human beings, the urban environment, walking, and drawing.
Oakes is a Toronto-based artist and has exhibited at artist-run centres and public and commercial venues including Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, A.W.O.L. Gallery, Lehman Leskiw Fine Art, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (Clarington Gallery), Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition and Gallery 1313. Her drawings were included in the First National Juried Drawing Exhibition at White Water Gallery and Drawing 2012 at the John B. Aird Gallery. Her walking drawing practice was featured on CBC Radio's "Here and Now".
Inspired by the children's book "Paddle-to-the-sea" by C. Holling, Adrienne Trent’s Ground Classification: Without a Trace sets up a poetic, and at the same time actual representation of a catastrophe. An ancient handmade canoe with large holes in the bottom becomes a survival kit/getaway vessel. The boat is packed with obsolete and some state-of-the-art equipment for survival against the elements (both natural and human created) and is oriented towards the St. Lawrence Seaway awaiting its imminent escape.
Trent is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art, co-founder of Republic, and former member of the Red Head Gallery. She has had exhibits in commercial galleries such as Robert Birch, Edward Day, Deleon White, Lonsdale and V.Macdonnell; in public galleries including the Art Gallery of Clarington, Koffler Gallery, Justina M. Barnicke at the University of Toronto, Robert Langen at Sir Wilfred Laurier University, and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa; and in various artist-run spaces. Her work can be found in the collections of The Art Gallery of Ontario, CBC, University of Toronto, and numerous private collectors.
Please join the artists in celebrating the opening reception on Saturday, April 28th from 2-5 pm.