{"id":41860,"date":"2018-11-09T15:08:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T20:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=41860"},"modified":"2018-11-09T16:14:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T21:14:30","slug":"john-clinton-at-canadian-sculpture-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=41860","title":{"rendered":"John Clinton at Canadian Sculpture Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rsz_1jcarttalk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41862\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rsz_1jcarttalk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist Talk: October 27, 2018 \/ 2 pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Canadian Sculpture Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clinton\u2019s past work explored the power of bronze within story-telling through textural nuances. His current solo exhibition brings him full-circle back to the fundamentals of wood and metal. Captivated by the enormous waste of natural materials, Clinton\u2019s new body of work further defined his story-telling focus within the challenges of textural-ingrained reclaimed plywood and metal.<\/p>\n<p>As Clinton wrote &#8220;Working in bronze and wood I have found that the surface works to define the piece \u2013 in effect becoming the texture of the story. I am fascinated that by altering the surface or the texture I can change the mood, the feeling and the emotion of the subject or story. Unlike bronze where I can create any texture, the reclaimed plywood forces me to deal with the texture I am given, creating a wonderful new challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1-jpg-Imposing-left-Inside-Looking-out-right.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41879\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/1-jpg-Imposing-left-Inside-Looking-out-right.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Imposing (left) and Inside Looking out (right), both reclaimed plywood, steel<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/JC.FrontImage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41867\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/JC.FrontImage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Installation view with wood sculptures<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rsz_rsz_7jcarttalk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41875\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rsz_rsz_7jcarttalk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">John Clinton with\u00a0<em>Regal, Eyes Wild Shut, bronze <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2-jpg-All-knowing-left-The-Eyes-right.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41880\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/2-jpg-All-knowing-left-The-Eyes-right.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a> <\/em>All Knowing (left) and The Eyes Have it (right), both bronze<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/JC.BigWestCoast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/JC.BigWestCoast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Big West Coast, bronze<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rsz_9jcarttalk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/rsz_9jcarttalk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">John Clinton explaining <em>Solemn\u00a0<\/em>(in the middle), reclaimed plywood, steel<\/p>\n<p>Images are courtesy of Canadian Sculpture Centre<\/p>\n<p>*Exhibition information: <em>Inside Looking Out: Metal and Wood<\/em>, John Clinton | Solo exhibition, October 18 &#8211; November 9, 2018,\u00a0Canadian Sculpture Centre, 500 Church Street. Gallery hours: Tue \u2013 Fri, 12 \u2013 6; Sat, 11 \u2013 4 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Artist Talk: October 27, 2018 \/ 2 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clinton\u2019s new body of work further defined his story-telling focus within the challenges of textural-ingrained reclaimed plywood and metal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=41860\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41860"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41882,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41860\/revisions\/41882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}