A Roadtrip Into Our Psyches - The Globe and Mail

Thanks to The Globe and Mail's R.M. Vaughan for the review of Colossus! The show is on until November 27th.

"For a very different kind of character identification, try emerging painter Troy Brooks’s new suite of paintings, Colossus, on display at Pentimento Gallery. Your latent femme fatale will thank you.

While Brooks has explored dangerous ladies as subjects before – a typical Brooks she-devil subject has an elongated face and body, is dead white, dressed elaborately, surrounded by weird animal familiars and/or horrific accidents, and is perhaps transgendered – his painting style has changed subtly but markedly." read more...

TROY BROOKS: COLOSSUS

Colossus opening reception October 27, 2011, Thursday 6pm to 9pm @ Toronto's Pentimento Fine Art Gallery, 1164 Queen St East.

"Colossus" (artist Statement)
This series is inspired by the writing of Sylvia Plath. The characters in these paintings are not images of Plath herself. They're based on the archetype that surfaces for me in her poetry; the persona of a conflicted young woman with monolithic ruminations, trapped in simple, demure settings and the repressive social mentality of the 1950's. These paintings are about a woman, much bigger than the fatuous definitions imposed on her. She is, at once, expanding and in the process if imploding.

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HOMEGIRLS - We have a winner!!!

Congratulations to Nayoun Kim who, after hundreds of votes, has emerged as the winner of the second-annual Leslieville mural competition!  This year, the theme was HOMEGIRLS - or Canadian Heroines.  Kim's winning image depicts Elsie McGill, known as "Queen of the Hurricanes", who was the world's first female aircraft designer.  She worked as an aeronautical engineer during WWII and designed the Maple Leaf Trainer II, which she was never able to fly herself due to crippling polio.

Keep your eyes open at Queen St. E and Hastings Avenue, where the winning image will be hung as a 10'x17' mural for the next year.

Thank you to everyone who voted and came out to support our artists and our community!

EUGENIE DAVIS: Works from 30 Duncan Street

Coming to Pentimento on September 29: Eugenie Davis's solo show entitled "Works from 30 Duncan Street".  Visit us at the official opening reception on October 13!

JOHN RANKINE - BENEATH THE SURFACE

SUMMER SALON 5 EXTENDED

Summer Salon 5 at First Canadian Place has been extended to September 9 - Come visit us Monday-Friday 11-3PM.  If the gallery is closed, visit the Events Office located across the hall.

HOMEGIRLS reception

Thank you to all the artists and guests who were here last week for the HOMEGIRLS official reception! We had a full house and it was great to have so many ballots filled.  The show is open to voting for one more week, so if you have yet to stop by, make sure to get here and pick your favourite!

Christy Haldane - Trent-Severn Waterway

The Peterborough Examiner has written an article on sculptor Christy Haldane's Trent-Severn Waterway project, where she will be installing five site-specific scupltures to enhance the locks and promote waterway conservation.  Read More
Christy Haldane's work can be seen at our Summer Salon 5 show hosted by First Canadian Place from Monday-Friday 11-3.

HOMEGIRLS

HOMEGIRLS opened this week and we have our first votes in!  Drop by our reception Wednesday night from 6-9PM to meet the artists, or stop by the gallery any time to vote.  Help us create a brand new piece of Leslieville public art by choosing your favourite Canadian heroine image.

For more information on the contest and the story behind it, click on the HOMEGIRLS tab at the top of the site.

Summer Salon 5 Opening

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Summer Salon 5 opening on Thursday!  Summer Salon is open to the public Monday-Saturday from 11-3PM