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Please join us on Friday, July 16 from 6-9 pm to celebrate our 21st anniversary.
"Pulse: Signs of Life" will feature new bodies of work by gallery artists Kimber Berry, Steven
Seinberg, Joseph Rossano and Maggie Hasbrouck.
KIMBER BERRY - Growing up in Los Angeles and being surrounded by over the top advertising and the
glitz of Hollywood instilled a love of illusion in Kimber Berry and a desire to explore the
psychological experience of living in a society so bombarded with visual noise and
simulated environments. Berry’s installations and paintings interlace, overlap and
converge upon themselves in much the same manner of existing in multiple
environments at once. She uses the fluidity of paint and the brush stroke as a narrative
tool to recreate the psychological compression of stimuli found in our society.
Berry is
moved by the desire to create simulated environments into which the observer can
psychologically step, creating an experience that engages the viewer on a deeper
level. Moving away from the rigid boundaries of painting distinct with the edge of
canvas, Kimber Berry is creating a fluid existence that allows her art to melt into,
embed, connect and disconnect, through the aspiration to fully engage a wall-
essentially, becoming part of the space. Her paintings and installations exist in the
psychological space between object and life, reality and illusion.
STEVEN SEINBERG - The soft, sensuous abstraction of Steven Seinberg celebrates the
process of insemination and honors the concept of fertility. Like the seeping of water
into layers of planted soil, the thin washes of color in Seinberg's canvases penetrate
imagery of seeds and pods, thereby realizing the creative potential inherent in this
process. “Seinberg's art communicates in a mysterious, unobtrusive manner, speaking
subtly and instinctively. Because the various elements within his pictures are
determined by what he intuits at each moment of the process of creation, every aspect
and phase of his work fades in and out of the paint almost imperceptibly,” says one
critic.
MAGGIE HASBROUCK - Southern artist Maggie Hasbrouck creates provocative,
playful, and imaginative images, most typically of children using photoencaustic as her
medium. Each composition presents a scene that is suspended from the natural order
of time, and evokes a dreamscape, a precise emotive moment occurring in the
imagination. Hasbrouck's consistent depiction of children as the key players in these
scenes furthers her desire to profoundly influence the viewer: "As every one of us has
been a child - and every one of us has been shaped crucially by our childhood - the
presence of children invariably inspires strong sensations, irresistible associations.
Hasbrouck's underage cohort does not serve to 'put you in the picture' so much as to
put the picture in you, to narrow (if not collapse) the emotional distance between you
and the moment you see," states Peter Frank, curator at the Riverside Art Museum in
Los Angeles and freelance art critic.
JOSEPH ROSSANO - As an artist, Joseph Rossano strives to distil ideas, concepts,
and reality into their bare essence. His resulting minimalist sculptures aim to convey
an emotion, ask a question, or direct the viewer on a path of introspection and
investigation, as they explore man's impact on the environment. Rossano’s series
"BOLD" is named for the acronym for the Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)
database. The subjects of these sculptures are a jewelled representation of reality that
draw the viewer in for a closer inspection. As the viewer shortens the distance
between himself and the sculpture, the specimen becomes increasingly difficult
to discern. The viewer, now confronted with the frustration of being unable to make out
exactly what is in the box, discovers the clear and legible text surrounding the
specimen. The Ontario Genomics Institute has partnered with renowned Seattle-based
artist, Joseph Rossano, and biologists Dr. Paul Hebert, Dr. Chris Meyer, Dr. Hannah
Stewart, and Seabird McKeon to engage the public around the science of DNA
barcoding and how it is being used to catalog the world’s vast – and threatened –
biodiversity. Among the many applications of DNA barcoding is its use as an important
tool in modern conservation biology. Indeed, conservation is at the very core of this
work, which provides viewers with the opportunity to reflect on the impact of
humankind on our environment.
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