{"id":24625,"date":"2014-07-20T14:09:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T18:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=24625"},"modified":"2014-08-26T17:59:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T21:59:58","slug":"maura-doyle-gretchen-sankey-carol-wainio-and-julie-beugin-opening-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=24625","title":{"rendered":"Two exhibitions at Paul Petro Contemporary Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Maura Doyle, New Age Beaver, <\/em>2010<\/p>\n

Opening Reception: Friday July 11, 2014 \/\u00a0<\/strong>7 – 11 p.m.<\/strong>
\nPaul Petro Contemporary Art<\/strong><\/p>\n

The exhibition Second Time Around<\/em> at Paul Petro Contemporary Art engages works by Maura Doyle, Gretchen Sankey and Carol Wainio in a\u00a0playful and\u00a0sometimes nostalgic dialogue about the unattainable innocence and the environmental toll of human activity.<\/p>\n

Protruding from the walls, like paintings coming to life, the fantastic spaces of Gretchen Sankey\u2019s sculptures evoke childhood dreamscapes with their colorful presence and mesmerize the viewer with their masterfully crafted details.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0Gretchen Sankey, Untitled<\/em>, 2014 (detail).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A young visitor next to Gretchen Sankey\u2019s Mountain Slide, <\/em>2014<\/p>\n

Carol Wainio\u2019s dramatic paintings engage the viewer with symbolic imagery of wondering children and naively drawn silhouettes of birds, overshadowed by the iconic “oil derrick”.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Carol Wainio, Nature of Things (Archive), <\/em>2014<\/p>\n

Maura Doyle\u2019s ceramics shift the discourse onto the infancy of civilization. Intrigued by the shapes of primitive pots, which she characterizes as one of the earliest human inventions and an ancient springboard for experimentation, she adopted historical pottery-making techniques. The painterly quality of the surface of these artworks is a result of open firing. Each one of these objects mimics contemporary items, and yet their shapes echo ancient aesthetics. If you did not get a chance to see these precious objects at YYZ gallery in May and June, it is definitely worth visiting.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Visitors in front of Maura Doyle\u2019s Toronto 2010.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Artist Maura Doyle.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0Maura Doyle, Paper coffee cup (#1); Spray bottle.<\/em><\/p>\n

Furthermore, on the second floor, the exhibition is complemented by a solo show of new abstract paintings by Julie Beugin, And the green streets though parallel run far from each other<\/em>. The poetic \u00a0title is\u00a0actually coming\u00a0from a poem, John Ashbery’s Rain<\/em> in The Tennis Court Oath<\/em>, 1962.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/em>Julie Beugin, Stairs<\/em>, 2014.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Installation view of\u00a0Julie Beugin, And the green streets though parallel run far from each other.<\/em><\/p>\n

“While this exhibition continues themes in my past work of mergers between landscape and architecture, in this new work I dissolve details of each into ephemeral fragments, building ambiguous and suggestive spaces. Seen together, these small paintings act as interconnected, puzzling glimpses.”\u00a0says the\u00a0Canadian artist\u00a0who\u00a0currently lives in Berlin\u00a0about \u00a0her recent work. The mostly abstract compositions are suggestive at some points, there might be a train or streetcar at the top of the stairs. Other times the colored fields\u00a0 give\u00a0an impression of a landscape or a park or\u00a0they are simply\u00a0remind us of natural\u00a0shapes or\u00a0architectural motifs.<\/div>\n
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Text and photo: Elena Iourtaeva<\/div>\n
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* Exhibition information: Maura Doyle, Gretchen Sankey, Carol Wainio: Second Time Around<\/em> and <\/em>Julie Beugin: And the green streets though parallel run far from each other, <\/em>July 11 – August 9, 2014, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, 980 Queen St West Toronto. Gallery hours: Wed – Sat 11 – 5 p.m.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opening Reception: July 11, 2014 \/ 7-11 pm<\/p>\n

by Elena Iourtaeva<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two exhibitions opened at the same time: Maura Doyle, Gretchen Sankey, Carol Wainio: Second Time Around<\/em> and Julie Beugin: And the green streets though parallel run far from each other<\/em><\/p>\n

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