Amy Shackleton at the Interior Design Show, Toronto, Jan 23 - 26, 2014

Thursday – Sunday January 23-26, 2014

Amy Shackleton painting “LIVE” at the Interior Design Show! Painting commissioned by Home Hardware.

The painting in the foreground "Spring Forward" 2014 by Amy Shackleton is available for purchase through the Elaine Fleck Gallery. 

Amy Shackleton "REFLECTIONS OF THE FUTURE" January and February 2014

Elaine Fleck Gallery Represented artist Amy Shackleton has been SELLING OUT SHOWS at the Elaine Fleck Gallery for several years now and her trajectory for the New Year is straight up.

2014 starts out for Amy with a rare honour for an artist, a two month SOLO SHOW at the Elaine Fleck Gallery.

Exhibition Title: "REFLECTIONS OF THE FUTURE".

Artist Statement: “My new series of work is inspired by a recent trip along the coast of California. Throughout my travels I found myself gazing into water, admiring the movements, colours and reflections of the world around me. Reflections can be clear or distorted—transforming our view of the present. In this show I use reflections in pools, lakes and skyscrapers to manipulate my surroundings. I distort the present to reflect my vision of a sustainable future—a future where cities welcome the natural world.”Amy Shackleton

January and February 2014, showing at the Elaine Fleck Gallery, Wednesday to Sunday noon to 5:00pm and by appointment.

Thursday January 9^th, 2014, 6 - 9 pm. Opening Night!

Join us at the Elaine Fleck Gallery for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Elaine Fleck will introduce Amy Shackleton and Amy will present a twenty-minute talk on her newest work.

Tuesday January 14, 2014

Elaine Fleck and Amy Shackleton are conducting an Art Talk at SOHO HOUSE Toronto. Soho House has established itself in London, New York, Toronto, Berlin, LA & Miami as the preeminent private members club for those in the creative industries.

Thursday – Sunday January 23-26, 2014

Amy Shackleton is painting “LIVE” at the Interior Design Show! Home Hardware has commissioned the painting which will be placed in a DRAW! A very lucky winner at the Interior Design Show will take home the painting.

February 2014

Fashion Magazine is featuring a two-page spread on Amy Shackleton including photos and an interview discussing her very ambitious “Canadian LEED-scape project”; a 53-foot-long, 13 panel painting that explores the natural environment and the recent development of sustainable buildings across Canada.

December "Holiday Show"

For the month of December and the Christmas Season…we're presenting the Holiday Show! featuring work by Gallery Represented Artists - Kathy Kissik, Amy Shackleton, S.Vote, Michael Conway, Marcel Guldemond, Rhiana Sneyd, Susan Fisher and Gary Ray Rush and we're introducing you to the work of ten new talents discovered from the many submissions to Elaine Fleck’s Catalogue of Contemporary Fine Art, fall/winter 2013.

The Elaine Fleck Gallery Invites you to come out and see the masterfully stylistic photographs of S.Vote and the arty goodness of Marcel Guldemond's paintings all on display and avaiable for sale during the month of November! 

"Each and every day, Life gives us a new chance to see things a little different than what we saw the day before. When we open our eyes, our hearts and minds; the simple little events, everyday circumstances and 'chance' meetings with another, all perfectly converge and gently whisper to us of the Divine, help us to embrace the Beautiful and will, if we can yield, ultimately carve away all that is not Truth. My hope is that when people see my work they feel as I do; art & beauty are often in the most ordinary of things." S.Vote

S.Vote is an internationally recognized Australian photographer, twice-published author and filmmaker. A passionate and diligent artist; his bold, large scale, original pieces are now in collections in Europe and North America. His work has been featured in American Photo, PDN, Popular Photography, Applied Arts, Photography Masters Cup and singled out by Graphis Photo Annual for exceptional imagery. 

S.Vote looks to Elaine Fleck to curate his work into a featured show at the Elaine Fleck Gallery each year. 

With a busy career of more than twenty years in advertising and editorial photography behind him & working around the globe and living in Sydney, London, Paris and most recently, New York (his home for more than a decade); S.Vote now lives with his amazing wife, his dog and their three little blokes in a small town in Western Massachusetts. 

Marcel Guldemond is an Ottawa based painter and former comic book artist. In his younger days, he spent more than a few summers planting trees and busting his fingernails under the big skies and open clear cuts of northern Ontario. That time spent lost down the endless logging roads has firmly embedded the great emptiness of the Canadian landscape into his psyche and forms a backdrop for much of his art.

During his 20s he bounced around from one institution to another before finally receiving a B.Sc. in Computer Science in 1999 from Dalhousie University. During that time he published several comic books, graphic novels and short stories, and won a Xeric Grant in 1999 for the graphic novel ‘Under a SlowlySpinning Sun’.

In 2003, he shifted his artistic focus from creating indie comic books back to making paintings, having been sucked back in by the messy joys of paint and colour. He has since expanded his subject matter from Canadian landscapes and Canadiana to include hot air balloons, fish, robots, and a host of other things. He is very happy to know that his paintings are out there in the world bringing their arty goodness into the lives of those who come in contact with them.

Marcel is represented in Toronto by the Elaine Fleck Gallery.

nuit blanche Toronto

Saturday October 5, 2013 at the Elaine Fleck Gallery.

Featured Artists:

Harrison Taylor
A native of Toronto, Harrison received his studio art undergraduate degree at Dartmouth college where he focused on photography and architecture. He also spent a year studying photography at the school of the Art institute of Chicago, and recently studied a summer program in architecture at Harvard University.

Harrison has combined his interest in photography, traditionally and technically the purest form of representational art, with his passion for abstraction, resulting in an art form which challenges the convential 'limitations' which photography imposes. His current project involves manipulating liquids (paint, melted wax) not by using his own hand but rather by imposing the forces of nature - gravity, pressure, dispersion, acceleration, wind - which results in the organic patterns of the natural world. It is a type of fractal patterning, in that the pattern unfolds in itself, creating infinite symmetry in degrees of size. The process itself is very significant, as the photographs are a moment in the overall journey of the process - what came before is just as important as what is, and what comes next. It speaks to the impermanence of art and of beauty itself.

"I seek out and make subjects that emulate patterns which can be taken out of their context of size and time. This creates a shift in scale that allows for a reinterpretation of preconceived visuals and ideas. As a result, my work suggests a constant struggle between nature and order; a play between what we know and what we are allowed to make up."

Harrison's most resent work will be available for sale at The Elaine Fleck Gallery. The show opens Saturday October 5th, 2013 the night of Nuit Blanche Toronto and runs until October 30th, 2013.

Harrison Taylor, Deconstruction II, photography, transparency, lightbox, 40"x60", 2013

Rhiana Sneyd

Rhiana Sneyd is a Toronto based artist and honours graduate of Queen's University with a major in Fine Art. Her large-scale oil paintings are inspired by her own photographs taken in moments of solitude, awe and enlightenment within the city at night. 

In a day and age of long zoom technology, where a few clicks on google maps can transport one from the view of their entire continent to the roof of their own home, Rhiana brings a personal and intimate perspective to the experience of urban life. Viewers find themselves in the centre of the composition, faced with the details of a transient moment in time.

Rhiana has always been captivated by the expansive beauty and energy ignited by the city at night. She believes that the transforming quality of light can change how we perceive places that are familiar to us. Suspended from the din of day, it is in these moments of contemplation and exploration, that the soul of the city reveals itself. Energy flows through cities like a biological system implying that we are all a network of connections belonging to a larger consciousness.

Rhiana is now represented by the Elaine Fleck Gallery and has produced her largest piece to date for display at Elaine Fleck Gallery. "Alignment", a 72 by 120 inch, oil on canvas, will be unveiled and for sale the night of nuit blanche.

Alignment, oil on canvas, 72"x120", 2013

Erin Rothstein is a Canadian artist, born in Montreal and currently living and working in Toronto. Her artistic career was launched with the 2004 exhibition Terra Tremante at the Museo Allaperto Darte Contemporanea in Casacalenda, Italy. From 2005 to present, Montreal has hosted ten exhibitions of Erin’s work. Most recently, Erin’s work has been exhibited at Engine Gallery and Art Interiors in Toronto, at The Art Gallery of Hamilton, and as part of The Colart Collection in Montreal, a major collection of contemporary Canadian art and a significant force in the careers of the country’s most provocative emerging artists. In March 2012, Erin received a Scotiabank People’s Choice Award for her series entitled “The Tasting Room,” which also won the support of The Ontario Arts Council.

Erin obtained a diplome d’études collegiales from Dawson College where she graduated with honours in Fine Arts. Upon graduation she specialized in Studio Arts and Art History at Concordia University where she obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Erin developed her knowledge of the international art scene by studying drawing in Italy. She later obtained a Masters degree in Art History from The University of Western Ontario, where she studied in detail the evolution and role of décor in modern art. Alongside her academic

pursuits and career as an artist, Erin has worked with a leading art consulting firm toward designing art collections for luxury hotels worldwide. Erin’s interdisciplinary experience in the arts and fierce commitment to the realm of contemporary aesthetics lends itself to projects that are highly nuanced and refreshingly innovative.

Erin has two paintings in the nuit blanche exhibition from her “Tasting Room” series, “TOAST” a 48x48 inch acrylic on canvas and “ICE COFFEE” a 48x 36 inch acrylic on canvas.  Both will be on display and available for purchase at the Elaine Fleck Gallery during the month of October.

Toast, acrylic on canvas, hyperrealism, 48"x48", 2013

The Elaine Fleck Gallery 

Presents

C A P I T A L

Michael Conway

“In this century, it will be the city—not the state—that becomes the nexus of economic and political power. Already, the world’s most important cities generate their own wealth and shape national politics as much as the reverse.” Parag Khanna, When Cities Rule the World.

"Capital” is a large scale (36”x48”) photomontage series that re-imagines / re-constructs various global cities. By dissecting these cities through the physical cutting of photographs, the work explores emergent aspects of the nation in a time of increasing cultural hybridity and planetary interdependence. Michael Conway. 2013.

Michael Conway B.Arch, Dip-Arch Tech, OAA

Opening Thursday September 12, 2013 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm

Show runs the month of September.

August 2013 Show

Featured Artists:

 

LLOYD ARBOUR - Digital Illustrations and Mixed Media

A perfectionist and visionary—Arbour’s abstract works are a creative outlet for this well diversified artist, illustrator and graphic designer. His unique illustrations have a common blend of; originality, aesthetic appeal and thought provoking imagery that stirs question. His inspiration comes from urbanstreetscapes, graffiti, nature, society and pop culture. His goal is to spark the creativity of others, while building a connection with the viewer. 

His most recent work experiments with vintage maps, photography and collage. Most concepts start as digital illustrations created through Adobe Illustrator andPhotoshop. Mediums play off, challenge, or complement one another. His work includes several mediums including photography, printing, painting and sketching.

 

SUSAN FISHER - Encaustic and Mixed Media

Susan graduated from Concordia University, Montreal with an honours BFA and a post graduate diploma in Art Education. After experiencing the North while teaching, she continued her education and graduated from Trent University,Peterborough with a Master's Degree specializing in First Nations Art History.

From an early passion for printmaking and especially photography, she embraced the specialized techniques of encaustic painting, an ancient medium rediscovered and currently popular with a growing number of artists.

Susan Fisher enjoys creating in encaustic because of the way it allows her to create rich layers of translucence and color that come together as a whole in a work saturated with depth, emotion, and life. It allows her to build truly vibrant worlds with heartbeats, identities, and emerging life forces all their own, mirroring the actual fluidity and tactile nature of the medium itself. In addition to using traditional ancient encaustic techniques to create her pieces, she also incorporates elements of such media as printmaking, traditional drawing, and sculpture to create a result that is incredibly personal and truly one of a kind. Each piece of her incredible melting wax art represents a different moment – a fleeting emotion – frozen and preserved forever using one of the world’s oldest and most challenging media.

 

ROMAN ELINSON - Photography

 

Born in 1974, Roman Elinson currently lives and works in Toronto as both a physician and an artist. Roman’s photography career began in 2000 with the purchase of a used Pentax SLR at a San Francisco pawn shop during a medical school elective. As an artist, Roman is self-taught and continues to explore a range of styles including documentary, pop, nature, and surrealism. Roman’s work is influenced by Cartier-Bresson, Erwitt, Dali, and C.G. Jung, and is often inspired by the exotic milieus of his travels. His images have been variously described as uplifting, thought provoking, and dream-like. Roman’s work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally.