19.5.11

THIS WEEK'S TOP 10

First of a Million Kisses
In the tradition of Top 30 countdowns, visitors and patrons of the gallery are asked to rate their Top 10 favourite albums and a weekly update of the chart will appear online, ultimately creating a Top 30 with a No. 1 as voted by you!

Top 10 for the week ending May , 2011:

1. First of a Million Kisses
2. The Gambler
3. Highway to Hell
4. Violator
5. The Queen is Dead
5. Mexican Moon
7. Stick Around for Joy
8. Nightclubbing
9. It'll End in Tears
9. Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
9. People are Expensive

14.5.11

Welcome to Pentimento's Blog Site

It has been a very exciting week for us here at Pentimento.  To begin with the current work of R. Kelly Clipperton has had two very exciting reviews on BlogTO and the Globe and Mail.  There is just one week left to see the work installed here before the upcoming show for G. Elliott Simpson.
     In addition, G. Elliott Simpson was the featured artist this week on Advocate.com.  This exposure has already introduced his work to Blog Sites throughout  Europe and the States.
     This is our inaugural blog and we are on a steep learning curve but I hope you will take the time to have a look and we look forward to your feedback.


Cheers,
John

LIBERTINES AND NAKED VAMPIRES

Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know


R. M. Vaughan's review of our current show is out in today's issue of the Globe and Mail.  Thanks to the Globe for the fantastic review!


"Clipperton’s latest exhibition of photographs, his largest to date, is a rollicking, deliciously naughty assortment of high-gloss, higher-glam portraits of local luminaries, most of them pulled from the queer art and burlesque set; the bold print celeb-utante crowd who provide quality fodder for the weeklies (in other words, his kind of people). If nothing else, the show is a great archive of Toronto’s nightclub and alternative-space fuelled culture, circa 2011 – a recreation, of sorts, of the late Will Munro’s legendary dress-up parties, a night out frozen in film." read more...

BLOGTO

Some kind words from the folks at BlogTO concerning the R. Kelly Clipperton Top 30 show on now!
read here
Show is on display until May 22.

7.5.11

G. ELLIOTT SIMPSON

Advocate.com has published an interview and artist spotlight on upcoming Pentimento artist G. Elliott Simpson's most recent work.  Read the full interview here and stay tuned for more information on Simpson's solo show opening on June 2.


Duende


"Simpson's images are horribly beautiful. His deathly angels and chic, dark demons are up to no good, and that's just fine." read more

THIS WEEK'S TOP 10



Violator


In the tradition of Top 30 countdowns, visitors and patrons of the gallery are asked to rate their Top 10 favourite albums and a weekly update of the chart will appear online, ultimately creating a Top 30 with a No. 1 as voted by you!


Top 10 for the week ending May 1, 2011:


1. Violator
2. The Queen is Dead
3. First of a Million Kisses
4. Mexican Moon
4. People are Expensive
6. Adapt or Die
7. It'll End in Tears
7. The Sweet Escape
9. The Gambler
9. One of the Boys

6.5.11

R. KELLY CLIPPERTON


Come check out our current show, photographer R. Kelly Clipperton's collection of re-imagined album covers!

"The impetus for this series of photos was the album It’ll End In Tears by This Mortal Coil.  My head flooded with images as I kept thinking of this title.  I then thought what a perfect thesis: take album titles and re-imagine them.  No influence from the original album artwork, the band or the music, just let the title feed me ideas.  As I’m not one to be subtle I figured let’s do 30 of them, like a Top 30 countdown… something I loved as a kid.  I’d always look forward to the Thursday Countdowns, both the Top 40 stations and the Alternative ones, probably with similar anticipation that others look forward to Oscar night, who is going to climb up and who is going to make a dramatic fall.  Perhaps an early example of what Reality Television has become.

So in this Top 30 I took 30 titles; some famous, some not so, and full on “Kellified” them.  Rio by Duran Duran turning into sun, 
sand, sweat, sex;  Version 2.0 by Garbage - a woman post-plastic surgery admiring her new self;  Katy Perry’s One of The Boys 
explores what she might have meant had she the balls, and Hotel California by The Eagles showing the less than desirable 
aspects of L.A.’s casting couch." - excerpt from the artist statement.

5.5.11

R. KELLY CLIPPERTON

Stick Around for Joy
The Queen is Dead
Sweet Escape
War
First of a Million Kisses
Mexican Moon