Anthony Adcock

The Muck

2023

Hyperreal oil painting of plywood board by Anthony Adcock - Oil on ACM (aluminum composite material) **No wood was used in this piece. It is an oil painting - painted by hand on ACM...

Hyperreal oil painting by Anthony Adcock of a dirt footprint - gold and silver on paper, presented in wood frame. Image is hand drawn on paper. Anthony Adcock's hyperreal oil pain...

Hyperreal oil painting by Anthony Adcock - Oil on ACM (aluminum composite material) *This is a hyperrealistic oil painting - What appears as wood grain and concrete is in fact oil p...

Hyperrealist oil painting of an orange road sign with gold grill detail by Anthony Adcock. ** This is a hyperrealistic oil painting. No wood or...

Bryan Ryley: Rigorous Inquiry at the Intersection of Material and Structure Bryan Ryley, a significant figure in contemporary Canadian abstraction, operates from his studio in Verno...

Jessica Houston’s most recent works look north. What is north? Where is it? Is it a fixed place, or something else? Her second solo show at Art Mûr brings together paintings, a sound sculpture, and chine collé prints, all of which reveal a fragile, fluid, and often fractured, north. An iron ore stone becomes a speaker, playing recordings of interviews and singing, and expanding the physical presence of the stone. The exaggerated textures of the paintings give them, too, a sculptural and documentary feel. They record how actions—breaking and piercing, pushing and pulling—disrupt and transform the paintings’ surfaces. By resembling patterns one finds in the wild—scratches across the surface of a rock, uneven waves that form on melting snow—they unhinge any clear distinction between what is natural and what is made. Made with a printmaking technique that binds together distinct papers, the chine collé prints begin with photographs Houston took of Baffin Island. She then combines the images with coloured paper, creating traces of the process of extracting and replacing parts of a scene, and an equal awareness of both what is present and absent. Some are composed of double circles, like looking through binoculars. In Business As Usual, a decaying interior—peeling wallpaper...

Oil on canvas - Unframed. Boecker begins each new work by penciling in his composition. But the work ultimately is about the colors and layers that will evolve on the surface over t...

Andy Miller (American, b. 1950), Abstract Composition, Oil on Canvas, impasto details, dark brown with red and green hues, unsigned, artist's studio stamp to verso, unframed. 12.25" ...