JULY 2016 EXHIBITION: "SPACE TIME AND MOTION" AT THE ELAINE FLECK GALLERY

SPACE TIME AND MOTION 

features new artwork by

Jacqueline Veltri exhibiting until July 31, 2016 

Cindy Dyson and Scott Kish exhibiting until July 16, 2016 

This artwork is for sale.

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This time and space series is about the way we use time. This series is dedicated to my mom who taught me that we can choose to use our time to be happy and fulfilled. I used the compasses to represent the space we occupy, and that we choose the direction we take in life. Ultimately time doesn't control us because we choose how we spend our time. I illustrate this by changing the scale of the compasses and making them much larger than the time pieces. - Jacqueline Veltri 

https://elainefleckgallery.com/collections/jacqueline-veltri

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My fascination with everyday street scenes reflects my hope and struggle to believe that the most beautiful moments in life are not always as expected. Perhaps these precious times are all at once – mundane and frenzied, fragile and strong, peaceful and painful, sunny and dark.

I work with acrylic paint and palette knives.  I find that the endlessness to the variety of mark I can make with these tools challenges and fascinates me.  I love the physicality and range of the knife – aggressive slices, delicate dabs, focused scrapes and thick bold swaths of colour.  The paint is so flexible – I can spray, splatter, blob and pour it. These qualities enable me to express a wide range of emotion in each piece.

I am greatly influenced by the European Impressionists. Their sensitive offerings physically and emotionally connect me to their 19th century world. My application of paint does not result in realistic representation.   Rather, I am satisfied with a rough familiarity and mood of subject.  My goal is to present an intriguing balance of roughness and tenderness; boldness and vulnerability, representation and expression. - Cindy Dyson 

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Scott Kish paints "motion" in all its variable forms. The four paintings curated by Elaine Fleck for this exhibition are, large in scale 40 x 70 inches, life size forms of runway models painted with oils on aluminum providing the viewer immediate context turning a static artwork into stylized motion.

In early 2016, Scott received word that his motion  paintings were the inspiration behind New York fashion designer Vivienne Hu's Fall 2016 collection. After viewing the collection at the runway show at NYFW, he was inspired to depict this collection in a series of paintings.

New Paintings by Amy Shackleton and Mark Liam Smith

We are very excited to have brand new work by Amy Shackleton and Mark Liam Smith on display and for sale this June.

Shackleton's paintings explore the evolving relationship between nature and cities. Using natural forms as examples for sustainable design, she suggests innovative solutions for urban planning and development. Amy Shackleton's paintings are highly sought after, and sell fast. Don't miss this opportunity to see her newest work in person.

Recover (New York and Vancouver) -SOLD
Acrylic and Enamel on Canvas, 35 x 50 inches, 2016 

Season Finale (New York and Vancouver) -SOLD

Acrylic and Enamel on Canvas, 35 x 50 inches, 2016 

Renewal (New York and Vancouver) -SOLD
Acrylic and enamel on canvas, 35 x 50 inches, 2016 

Mark Liam Smith's paintings are visual works of fiction: he creates a narrative using shape, colour, and characters, carefully considering the chromatic and spatial relationships in his paintings to achieve movement and balance. Mark Liam Smith is an emerging artists recently discovered by the Elaine Fleck Gallery. He is extremely prolific and is gaining momentum quickly. Smith will also be showing at SCOPE BASEL 2016 from June 14-19 in Basel, Switzerland.

THE AUCTION HOUSE -SOLD 

oil and acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches, 2016

Flowers for Fibonacci

oil and acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 inches, 2016

Game Theory 

oil and acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60 inches, 2016

"Under-Texting"

Marcel Guldemond is a breath of fresh air; his use of traditional oil techniques combined with his illustration style makes his work a fun, unique, experience for all. His recent series is titled “Under-Texting” it depicts many storylines by contrasting brightly shaped comic book panels inside the golden glow of dusk, suggesting a larger narrative that the viewer can further explore.  

Marcel Guldemond lives in Ottawa, Ontario and is constantly inspired by the beautiful Canadian landscape. Marcel takes inspiration from Northern Ontario towns all the way to Parka Expeditions. His diverse work will be showcased in the month of February at the Elaine Fleck Gallery.  

Artist Statement 

Undertexting describes a new art making process I've developed, as well as the idea that we

as human beings use stories to understand everything in our lives; that the cultural context of

everything we've read and watched and listened to forms the underlying context of almost

every moment that we live.

One could also say that undertexting is about the relativity of meaning, that all meaning is only

ever understood within a cultural context, and how that cultural context is formed by the

stories we consume. [One could also say that it's about how the background context of how

we understand things is often a jumble, but that might just be a reflection of the disarray in my

own mind.]

As a art making process, Undertexting starts with a layer of torn photocopies of pages from

my favourite books, mostly novels, that I paste on to the panel over top of the original

drawings. I then paint on top of that with thin layers of paint (much thinner than I'd been using

in the past) allowing you to see some of the underlying text, making that cultural context more

explicit and part of the visual story.

Undertexting is a new art making process for me not only because of the underlying layers of

text, but also because I've completely changed how the paintings look: I've begun to explicitly

incorporate things from my background in comics. These include the use of inset panels,

which I'm using to show key scenes in the stories the paintings are describing, and the use of

more abstract line and flat colour based backgrounds, which set the emotional contexts and

the settings for the stories they tell.

When people would ask me what my paintings were about before Undertexting, I usually said

that they were scenes from imaginary novels, or what it felt and looked like to be in an

imaginary novel. These new paintings that make up Undertexting are, with their underlying

layers of text and their use of visual storytelling elements from the comics medium, even more

about scenes from, or being inside of, imaginary novels. I hope you enjoy them.

- Marcel Guldemond