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Light in the box
By Karine Payette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
With its meticulous attention to detail, Karine Payette’s work opens up numerous reflections on the different ways we perceive reality. Payette achieves this by adroitly evoking the notion of doubt. Both playful and offbeat, her universe is built up from stripped-down stagings that conjure up private, domestic stories, and scenes from everyday life. Carefully arranging objects in space, she creates “zones of anxiety” where different elements overlap: loss of control, domination, and forms that might themselves take over.
The artworks brought together in L’ombre d’un doute highlight the various touchstones of the multidisciplinary practice Karine Payette has been developing since 2010. The exhibition borrows its title from the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name (Shadow of a Doubt), where a young girl discovers the dark side of the world. This shadowy reference evokes the fragrance of mystery that wafts among Payette’s works, and the need to decipher, like a riddle, that which takes place before our eyes.
As soon as he/she enters the exhibition, the viewer is confronted with a puddle of milk covering the floor, in which he/she finds several kernels of floating Rice Krispies...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
East Wind - blue, translucent, flowing, glass, intersecting tabletop sculpture
By John Paul Robinson
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Metaphors of time, space, earth and its elements are reflected in the elegant and glowing glass sculptures by Canadian artist John Paul Robinson. In this table-top piece, gently curved tubes of azure blue glass move together mimicking the effect of wind on water. Historically, the east wind...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Untitled (Burnt Tower)
By Erika Dueck
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In Erika Dueck’s optical machines, the viewer can peer through a small opening into a near-pathological state of anxious disorder; a state of things half-accomplished and naggingly r...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Pantie
By Cal Lane
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Laughter, discomfort, perplexity: these are all plausible reactions to the work by sculptor Cal Lane. The artist’s most recent body of work is an affective assemblage of incongruous parts that, taken together, violate our mental patterns and expectations. Charged with contradictions, metaphor, sexual undertones, and unsettling associations, Lane’s unlikely combinations use absurdity as a way of pointing to western society’s normalized habits and conventions, often with an emphasis on gender and sexuality.
For the exhibition Try Me, Lane installs a basketball court in the gallery. The two basketball hoops on opposing walls are embellished with silver-coated frames and lustrous mirrors, which serve as decorative backboards. In place of nets, women’s black lace underwear delicately hang from hoops. A decorative rug stenciled with court lines performs as the court floor. It is a mise-en-scène set in motion by viewer’s reconciliation of the individual parts to the whole, and to their original function. Panties regard themselves in the mirror or perhaps measure up their opponent, which, not without irony, is the mirror image of itself. Themes of gender and sexuality are performed and imagined in the upward voyeuristic gaze of the viewer and the expected swoosh of the ball into the net. This is further elaborated by phallic impressions formed by court lines and their likeness to a work of modernist abstraction—a movement wrought by notions of masculinity. The decorative rug’s connection to femininity and domesticity juxtaposes the rigid geometry.
Lane further explores the historical gendering of technology, industry, and war in her series of wallpaper drawings, which depict war submarines on cloud patterned wallpaper. The innocence of the submarine in popular culture and its reality as a phallic war object...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Pantie
By Cal Lane
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Laughter, discomfort, perplexity: these are all plausible reactions to the work by sculptor Cal Lane. The artist’s most recent body of work is an affective assemblage of incongruous parts that, taken together, violate our mental patterns and expectations. Charged with contradictions, metaphor, sexual undertones, and unsettling associations, Lane’s unlikely combinations use absurdity as a way of pointing to western society’s normalized habits and conventions, often with an emphasis on gender and sexuality.
For the exhibition Try Me, Lane installs a basketball court in the gallery. The two basketball hoops on opposing walls are embellished with silver-coated frames and lustrous mirrors, which serve as decorative backboards. In place of nets, women’s black lace underwear delicately hang from hoops. A decorative rug stenciled with court lines performs as the court floor. It is a mise-en-scène set in motion by viewer’s reconciliation of the individual parts to the whole, and to their original function. Panties regard themselves in the mirror or perhaps measure up their opponent, which, not without irony, is the mirror image of itself. Themes of gender and sexuality are performed and imagined in the upward voyeuristic gaze of the viewer and the expected swoosh of the ball into the net. This is further elaborated by phallic impressions formed by court lines and their likeness to a work of modernist abstraction—a movement wrought by notions of masculinity. The decorative rug’s connection to femininity and domesticity juxtaposes the rigid geometry.
Lane further explores the historical gendering of technology, industry, and war in her series of wallpaper drawings, which depict war submarines on cloud patterned wallpaper. The innocence of the submarine in popular culture and its reality as a phallic war object...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Sad Sea Horse
By Clint Neufeld
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Clint Neufeld makes ethereally beautiful car engines, transmissions, and other mechanical components out of cast ceramic that is decorated and displayed like fine china. In his work,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Fabric, Wood
Sommeil
By Guillaume Lachapelle
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s artistic practice is shaped predominantly by sculpture, expressed in the form of installations and detailed miniature models. Lachapelle presents playful universes which combine objects of undetermined purpose; in this way, he opens the conventions of our reality to fresh disposition. The architecture of his models – which Lachapelle has recently begun to make with the help of the latest 3-D printing technology – shows motifs originating from the everyday, certainly, but seeming strange, alienating or even uncanny when combined as the artist chooses. A kind of transition between two worlds often appears in Lachapelle’s work – for example when the model of a library filled with books curves inwards and reveals a mysterious opening pointing into darkness – these are the artist’s references to spaces and occurrences which may be concealed below the surface of outward semblance.
Guillaume Lachapelle has participated in several solo and group exhibitions including Manèges at Circa – Centre d’Exposition Art Contemporain (Montreal) in 2006; Quebec Gold at the Ancien Collège des Jésuites (Rheims, France) in 2008 and in Abracadabra (Edward Day...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Nylon
Pro-teen
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Meat is not what it used to be. Both chemically (through the over-abundant use of hormones and antibiotics in the raising of livestock,) and conceptually, it has morphed under the ba...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Acrylic, Oil
Untitled (Floating Books)
By Erika Dueck
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In Erika Dueck’s optical machines, the viewer can peer through a small opening into a near-pathological state of anxious disorder; a state of things half-accomplished and naggingly r...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Paper
Wildlife Passenger– Sitting
By Brandon Vickerd
Located in Montreal, Quebec
What would a perfect future look like and how would it be represented for future generations to examine and question? What would we choose to preserve from high art and mainstream culture? How will our successes be depicted and will we account for our failures? Perhaps our contemporary mythologies will replace the ancient Greek and Roman gods and goddesses of yore with superheroes, extra-terrestrials and science fiction characters devastated by technological advancement.
Brandon Vickerd works in a realm of unreality where the perfect future is chimeral, where there are more questions asked than answers presented. In his recent pieces currently displayed at Art Mûr, we find skeletons of humans and primates. They are dressed in spacesuits, as seen in Monument to the First American in Space, or trailing tentacles and zebra mussels in The Sub-Mariner. The pieces are evocative, and somehow manage to come across as realistic; incongruous bodies and objects have been integrated into fluid forms. Generally, there is either a lot of movement (literal as well as implied) in Vickerd’s work, or a stasis, as seen with these beings frozen in action. They are unabashed in their theatricality. The polished, vibrant sculptures in these galleries represent a kind of death and memorialization. The forms are stripped of flesh and dressed in protective suits (potentially after the implied catastrophes), which appear either manufactured or suggestive of the organic.
Ghost Rider...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Wall Pantie series
By Cal Lane
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Cal Lane is an internationally acclaimed sculptor known for turning ordinary objects into lacy artworks. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Untitled
By Shayne Dark
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Shayne Dark is a Hartington, Ontario-based contemporary visual artist who has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally since he began his artistic career in the mid 1980’...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Get a Head
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Meat is not what it used to be. Both chemically (through the over-abundant use of hormones and antibiotics in the raising of livestock,) and conceptually, it has morphed under the ba...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Acrylic, Oil
Woof
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Meat is not what it used to be. Both chemically (through the over-abundant use of hormones and antibiotics in the raising of livestock,) and conceptually, it has morphed under the ba...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Acrylic, Oil
Smörgåsbot
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Meat is not what it used to be. Both chemically (through the over-abundant use of hormones and antibiotics in the raising of livestock,) and conceptually, it has morphed under the ba...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Acrylic, Oil
Threeway
By Bevan Ramsay
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Meat is not what it used to be. Both chemically (through the over-abundant use of hormones and antibiotics in the raising of livestock,) and conceptually, it has morphed under the ba...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Acrylic, Oil
Windfall Series No 04 - small, smooth, abstract, natural wood carved sculpture
By Shayne Dark
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This abstract sculpture from the Windfall Series by Shayne Dark is made from one of the applewood burls collected from apple orchards in Prince Edward County, Ontario. Many of the lo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Wood
Wall Pantie series
By Cal Lane
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Cal Lane is an internationally acclaimed sculptor known for turning ordinary objects into lacy artworks. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
One Yellow Rose
By Clint Neufeld
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Clint Neufeld makes ethereally beautiful car engines, transmissions, and other mechanical components out of cast ceramic that is decorated and displayed like fine china. In his work,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Ceramic, Fabric
Wall Pantie series
By Cal Lane
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Cal Lane is an internationally acclaimed sculptor known for turning ordinary objects into lacy artworks. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Erratic Colour Candy Blue - circles, steel, geometric abstract, wall sculpture
By Shayne Dark
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This blue steel wall sculpture has a terrific presence - the elements suggest movement and vibration, the weaving of basketry, the pulsing of sound. The shadows cast by the piece also shift with the light.
Shayne Dark is one of Canada's most prominent sculptors. He has been awarded numerous large scale public commissions and his works are in many private and public collections around the world. Named one of the top 10 artists to watch at the recent Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Pantie Can
By Cal Lane
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Cal Lane is an internationally acclaimed sculptor known for turning ordinary objects into lacy artworks. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Pantie Can
By Cal Lane
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Cal Lane is an internationally acclaimed sculptor known for turning ordinary objects into lacy artworks. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Pantie
By Cal Lane
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Cal Lane is an internationally acclaimed sculptor known for turning ordinary objects into lacy artworks. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Immobilité
By Karine Payette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Born in 1983, Karine Payette lives and works in Montreal. As a multidisciplinary artist, her work spans installation, photography, and video. She constructs playful, dreamlike larg...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
De part et d’autre
By Karine Payette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Nancy Webb
It’s Saturday night and Karine Payette is in her studio. We meander into a conversation about the dog she used to have and her soft spot for German shepherds, an intensely obedient and loyal breed in a deceivingly wolf-like package. Payette’s most recent series of photographs, sculptures and video work seem to speak directly to this preoccupation with the multifaceted nature of human-animal relationships—the dialogues of control, intimacy, violence and domestication that subtly take place on an interspecies level.
Her workspace is part laboratory, part prop closet—a bowl of fur sits not far from her computer. Somehow in this bright, open, chemical-clean scented room, Payette conjures wildness. We are taken to a strange place, the borderlands of interspecies mingling. At one extreme of the animal-human dynamics scale is the stalwart compliance of a professionally trained German shepherd who responds to commands with robotic precision. Here, power is comfortably held by an off-screen voice, animality pacified by a set of linguistic prompts. At the other end of the scale is a sculpture of a human figure clad in red, sharing a languorous kiss with a wolf. The story of Little Red Riding Hood is immediately called to mind, except that here our hooded protagonist seems to have bailed on grandmother’s orders, instead opting for a forest floor make-out with her canine stalker. This taboo mise-en-scène is a brazen inquiry into the boundaries we maintain with our animal counterparts. Its scale and three-dimensionality contribute to a feeling of immersion that the artist has been courting with her work for the past several years. It feels as though you’ve just walked in on something: you are implicated and your discomfort is like an invisible mist that coats these inanimate beings.
Elsewhere in Payette’s suite of anthropomorphic works, the demarcation between species grows even fainter. A photographic series depicts the slow encroachment of fur, scales and feathers on human skin—a striking process of contamination facilitated by touch. The fusion of flesh, charcoal cat fur and a pale silky dress...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Polystyrene, Silicone, Pigment
Pantie
By Cal Lane
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Cal Lane is an internationally acclaimed sculptor known for turning ordinary objects into lacy artworks. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Pantie
By Cal Lane
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Cal Lane is an internationally acclaimed sculptor known for turning ordinary objects into lacy artworks. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Pantie
By Cal Lane
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Cal Lane is an internationally acclaimed sculptor known for turning ordinary objects into lacy artworks. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Circular Motion - large, bright blue, geometric abstract, coated steel sculpture
By Shayne Dark
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This steel sculpture has a grand presence - the elements suggest movement and vibration, the shadows cast by the piece also shift with the light. It also looks as if it might roll, s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
L’autre dimanche matin
By Karine Payette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Born in 1983, Karine Payette lives and works in Montreal. As a multidisciplinary artist, her work spans installation, photography, and video. She constructs playful, dreamlike larg...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Wood
Unheimliche
By Karine Payette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Born in 1983, Karine Payette lives and works in Montreal. As a multidisciplinary artist, her work spans installation, photography, and video. She constructs playful, dreamlike larg...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
À géométrie variables
By Karine Payette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Working primarily in the medium of installation, but also that of photography and video, Karine Payette creates fictional environments that function as freeze frames in which narratives are suspended.
In her work, she uses everyday objects to construct extensive dream-like scenes in a hyperrealist manner. These mises-en-scène serve to hint at a potential narrative which evokes the precariousness of our surrounding world. Through the playful use of everyday objects that are transposed into extraordinary situations, she craftily toys with our vision of things, so as to stimulate reflection about the instability of the materials and forms which are part of our living environments. She questions notions of comfort and displeasure in a perpetually transforming world.
Karine Payette, who holds a MFA from UQAM, lives and works in Montreal. Her works have been displayed in solo exhibitions, notably at the Galerie de l’UQAM (Confort instable, 2012) and at Le lieu, Centre en art actuel in Quebec City (L’autre dimanche matin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Midori Koi (AP) - green, rustic, baroque, face, figurative bronze wall sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The exquisite detail of antique hand-carved wood has been re-imagined as a mask in this intriguing sculpture by Dale Dunning. The Canadian artist often re-purposes found objects—this...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
La Capture
By Karine Payette
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Born in 1983, Karine Payette lives and works in Montreal. As a multidisciplinary artist, her work spans installation, photography, and video. She constructs playful, dreamlike larg...
Category
2010s Abstract Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Multiply Connected Triangle II
By Colleen Wolstenholme
Located in Montreal, Quebec
By Sophie Lynch
In Hyperobjects, Nova Scotia-based artist Colleen Wolstenholme presents works that developed from her earlier drawings of brain cell patterns and her interest in t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Windfall Series No 06 - smooth, polished, natural wood abstract carved sculpture
By Shayne Dark
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This series of eight abstract sculptures by Shayne Dark is made from applewood burls collected from apple orchards in Prince Edward County. "Many of the local apple orchardists were ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Wood
Still Life
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Nicholas Crombach graduated from OCAD University’s Sculpture and Installation program in 2012. He has been awarded the Hayden Davies Memorial Award, Samuel Lazar Kagan Award, Abraham and Malka Green Award, and a BMO 1st Art Nomination. His work has been seen at Word On The Street, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, the Al Green...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Resin, Wood, Acrylic
Windfall Series No 07 - smooth, polished, natural wood abstract carved sculpture
By Shayne Dark
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This abstract sculpture from the Windfall Series by Shayne Dark is made from one of the applewood burls collected from apple orchards in Prince Edward County, Ontario. Many of the lo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Wood
Shiro Koi AP - white, rustic, baroque, face, figurative, bronze wall sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Using small hand carved wooden escutcheons created by rural furniture makers early in the last century as the basis for the molds, Dunning has created the wax elements and sculpted a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Flying With Fire - large, translucent, red, feathers, solid glass wall sculpture
By John Paul Robinson
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Available on commission. Size can vary. Can be pre-mounted on panel or installed directly on wall. Please allow 8-10 weeks completion time before shipping.
Crimson glass feathers ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Interlace – Purple
By Shayne Dark
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Shayne Dark's work results from a rhythmic and organic process involving ideas, feelings, images, formal play, and structural necessity. Every aspect of the process has the potential...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Triad – Red
By Shayne Dark
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In 1914, a group of intrepid young men set forth into the northern wilderness with the ambition to document the uncharted territory of the Canadian collective unconscious. Their medium was that of sketchbooks and paint, and with these they rendered a vast and previously unknowable landscape into a tangible national identity. One could call their distinct style picturesque, as it cohered to many of the attributes prescribed by 18th century thinker William Gilpen – for capturing nature so as to make it both palatable and empowering for the viewer. During the romantic period in Europe, certain visual tropes emphasized the beauty of the natural landscape despite the rapid advancements of industrialism. As such, the picturesque, when applied properly, enabled the viewer to apprehend and revel in the vastness of change and opportunity with which they were presently confronted.
It is at a similar juncture that we contemplate the works of contemporary sculptor and installation artist Shayne Dark, who’s large scale arborescent schemes present a striking encapsulation of both the magnitude as well as the limits of our natural resources. In an age where the re-assessment of our modes of production and consumption has become a main constituent of our identity, his work serves as a potent reminder of this position’s precarity. One piece resembling a cluster of branches, for example, balances in a tenuous fashion, relying on the equal distribution of weight among all its parts to stay upright. In another work, the boughs extend upwards from a base so small it threatens to tip over. As opposed to the romantic and idealized conceptions of a nature as realized in the compositions of the Group of Seven, Dark, by working in the industrial material of hot forged steel, acknowledges the imprint of the human hand on our surroundings.
As art critic and theorist Rosalind Krauss...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Bough Laden with Raspberry
By Shayne Dark
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In 1914, a group of intrepid young men set forth into the northern wilderness with the ambition to document the uncharted territory of the Canadian collective unconscious. Their medium was that of sketchbooks and paint, and with these they rendered a vast and previously unknowable landscape into a tangible national identity. One could call their distinct style picturesque, as it cohered to many of the attributes prescribed by 18th century thinker William Gilpen – for capturing nature so as to make it both palatable and empowering for the viewer. During the romantic period in Europe, certain visual tropes emphasized the beauty of the natural landscape despite the rapid advancements of industrialism. As such, the picturesque, when applied properly, enabled the viewer to apprehend and revel in the vastness of change and opportunity with which they were presently confronted.
It is at a similar juncture that we contemplate the works of contemporary sculptor and installation artist Shayne Dark, who’s large scale arborescent schemes present a striking encapsulation of both the magnitude as well as the limits of our natural resources. In an age where the re-assessment of our modes of production and consumption has become a main constituent of our identity, his work serves as a potent reminder of this position’s precarity. One piece resembling a cluster of branches, for example, balances in a tenuous fashion, relying on the equal distribution of weight among all its parts to stay upright. In another work, the boughs extend upwards from a base so small it threatens to tip over. As opposed to the romantic and idealized conceptions of a nature as realized in the compositions of the Group of Seven, Dark, by working in the industrial material of hot forged steel, acknowledges the imprint of the human hand on our surroundings.
As art critic and theorist Rosalind Krauss...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Bough Laden with Fluorescent Orange
By Shayne Dark
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In 1914, a group of intrepid young men set forth into the northern wilderness with the ambition to document the uncharted territory of the Canadian collective unconscious. Their medium was that of sketchbooks and paint, and with these they rendered a vast and previously unknowable landscape into a tangible national identity. One could call their distinct style picturesque, as it cohered to many of the attributes prescribed by 18th century thinker William Gilpen – for capturing nature so as to make it both palatable and empowering for the viewer. During the romantic period in Europe, certain visual tropes emphasized the beauty of the natural landscape despite the rapid advancements of industrialism. As such, the picturesque, when applied properly, enabled the viewer to apprehend and revel in the vastness of change and opportunity with which they were presently confronted.
It is at a similar juncture that we contemplate the works of contemporary sculptor and installation artist Shayne Dark, who’s large scale arborescent schemes present a striking encapsulation of both the magnitude as well as the limits of our natural resources. In an age where the re-assessment of our modes of production and consumption has become a main constituent of our identity, his work serves as a potent reminder of this position’s precarity. One piece resembling a cluster of branches, for example, balances in a tenuous fashion, relying on the equal distribution of weight among all its parts to stay upright. In another work, the boughs extend upwards from a base so small it threatens to tip over. As opposed to the romantic and idealized conceptions of a nature as realized in the compositions of the Group of Seven, Dark, by working in the industrial material of hot forged steel, acknowledges the imprint of the human hand on our surroundings.
As art critic and theorist Rosalind Krauss...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Fanfare - smooth, polished, abstract, contemporary, mahogany carved sculpture
By David Chamberlain
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The elegant, lyrical curves of this abstract sculpture by David Chamberlain are hand-carved from one continuous loop of mahogany wood. The American artist is a sculptor, painter, jazz musician, a Capella singer, composer, writer and educator—a ‘renaissance man’ whose artwork is often inspired by music. Chamberlain works with the visible grain and polishes the wood to a soft lustre to accentuate its dynamic form.
Each sculpture is designed to rotate on a pedestal so that with every turn another view of the form is revealed.
This is the last of a suite of eight sculptures; each anthropomorphic form designed to be reminiscent of the traditional busts...
Category
1980s Abstract Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Mahogany
Lagoon swirl cane glass vessel decorative object
Located in Toronto, ON
Unique hand blown lagoon cane glass vessel by Alyssa Getz & Tom Cudmore. Composed of a delicate balance of blown lagoon glass with a swirling black cane b...
Category
2010s Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
7" Glass Thorn Vessel, Gold topaz, art glass bowl
Located in Toronto, ON
As a student and instructor of glass blowing for over twenty years, Andrew Madvin has an extremely unique vision when it comes to contemporary glass.
S...
Category
2010s Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
7" Glass Thorn Vessel, Cobalt blue, art glass bowl
Located in Toronto, ON
As a student and instructor of glass blowing for over twenty years, Andrew Madvin has an extremely unique vision when it comes to contemporary glass.
S...
Category
2010s Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Light Grey Excess (impasto thick painting monochrome pop art square design)
By Chloe Hedden
Located in Quebec, Quebec
*For questions, special requests or commission inquiries, please text the gallery directly using ASK THE SELLER button. Grouping of 3 paintings is $1500and of 4 paintings is $2000.
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Category
2010s Pop Art Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Survival
Located in Montreal, Quebec
As a child growing up in Nigeria, Samuel Nnorom’s artistic sensibilities emerged from observing the creative processes of his father, a shoemaker, and hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Textile
Suckers and
Located in Montreal, Quebec
As a child growing up in Nigeria, Samuel Nnorom’s artistic sensibilities emerged from observing the creative processes of his father, a shoemaker, and hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Textile
Meeting Points
Located in Montreal, Quebec
As a child growing up in Nigeria, Samuel Nnorom’s artistic sensibilities emerged from observing the creative processes of his father, a shoemaker, and hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Textile
The Essence of Life
Located in Montreal, Quebec
As a child growing up in Nigeria, Samuel Nnorom’s artistic sensibilities emerged from observing the creative processes of his father, a shoemaker, and hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Textile
Throw and Catch
Located in Montreal, Quebec
As a child growing up in Nigeria, Samuel Nnorom’s artistic sensibilities emerged from observing the creative processes of his father, a shoemaker, and hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Textile
Still Holding
Located in Montreal, Quebec
As a child growing up in Nigeria, Samuel Nnorom’s artistic sensibilities emerged from observing the creative processes of his father, a shoemaker, and hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Textile
If e like e Good or Bad
Located in Montreal, Quebec
As a child growing up in Nigeria, Samuel Nnorom’s artistic sensibilities emerged from observing the creative processes of his father, a shoemaker, and hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Textile
No one is an Island
Located in Montreal, Quebec
As a child growing up in Nigeria, Samuel Nnorom’s artistic sensibilities emerged from observing the creative processes of his father, a shoemaker, and hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Canada - Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Textile
