DANIEL HUTCHINSON
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    • Staging Abstraction
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    • Mass Art Guide, November 1st 2009
    • Montreal Mirror, October 15th 2009
    • Flight + Hotel, October 30th 2009
  • Essays
    • The Painter's Painter by Meraj Dhir
    • A Field Without Origin / Notes on Paintings for Electric Light by Craig Rodmore
    • Navigation. Blackness. by Sara Hartland-Rowe
    • Daniel Hutchinson. by Ben Klein
    • Zero Dimensions par: Lotfi Gouigah (français)
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ALMANAC

Angell Gallery, Toronto
March 2 - April 13, 2013

Daniel Hutchinson is fast becoming recognized as an important new voice in Canadian painting. In his second solo exhibition at Angell Gallery, Hutchinson presents a metaphorical exploration/meditation on that most Canadian of topics, the weather.

In ALMANAC, a series of large paintings feature highly abstracted renderings of natural phenomena, some inspired by wood engravings from a 19th century book documenting polar and tropical explorations. A series of smaller paintings derived from details in the larger works aims to predict weather patterns during the month of March, with a bit of help from the Farmers Almanac and the Canadian intuitive familiarity with our climate.

Sunspots, icebergs, waves, clouds and the aurora borealis are fractured into elemental geometric and organic forms that are then reconfigured through Hutchinson's dexterous manipulation of the oil medium. 

Though working at the edge of black, Hutchinson's paintings are replete with glistening light, formed by reflections captured through striated brushstrokes. The sensation of depth and movement is palpable, achieved not through the traditional tricks of perspective or illusionism, but through the properties of paint alone.

The resulting marriage of gesture and geometry, spontaneity and study, movement and stillness, representation and abstraction, certainty and speculation, and dark and light invites repeated engagement. Unlike a Farmers Almanac of years gone by, the paintings in ALMANAC resonate in a timeless space.

REVIEWS:
Daniel Hutchinson by Ben Portis, Border Crossings, 2013
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  • Exhibitions / Projects
    • Florilegium
    • Tin Vision
    • Bright Black
    • Delta Flowers
    • Staging Abstraction
    • Mirror, Mirror
    • When the Lighthouse is Dark between Flashes
    • Paintings For Electric Light
    • Almanac
    • No Object
    • Half-light over the Baltic Sea
    • Bon Echo
    • Zero Dimensions
  • About
  • Reviews
    • Visual Arts News, Ray Cronin
    • Artoronto, David Saric
    • Toronto Star, Murray Whyte
    • Border Crossings, Ben Portis
    • YYZ Artists Outlet, Patricia Ritacca
    • Artoronto, Shellie Zhang
    • Akimbo, March 13th 2012
    • Viewers Like You, February 25th 2012
    • The Huffington Post, February 23rd 2012
    • Toronto Life, February 23rd 2012
    • The Globe and Mail, December 30th 2011
    • Modern Toronto, August 16th 2011
    • The National Post, April 22nd 2011
    • Mass Art Guide, November 1st 2009
    • Montreal Mirror, October 15th 2009
    • Flight + Hotel, October 30th 2009
  • Essays
    • The Painter's Painter by Meraj Dhir
    • A Field Without Origin / Notes on Paintings for Electric Light by Craig Rodmore
    • Navigation. Blackness. by Sara Hartland-Rowe
    • Daniel Hutchinson. by Ben Klein
    • Zero Dimensions par: Lotfi Gouigah (français)
  • Contact
  • Writing