DANIEL HUTCHINSON
  • 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)
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Picture
DELTA FLOWERS
The Assembly, Hamilton, January 2017
Angell Gallery, Toronto, June 2017


Daniel Hutchinson presents Delta Flowers at The Assembly, a series of near abstract frottage paintings imprinted with artefacts found around his Hamilton studio. Fabric from the textile district, botanical forms from the conservatory, and geometric forms found in local architecture mix with light and textures from Hutchinson's east end studio in vibrantly coloured artworks. As surprisingly unfixed pictures, these painting/printmaking hybrids are as unpredictable and irreducible as the features or characteristics that constitute the identity of the place where they’re made.

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The field of painting has traditionally approached the subject of place by employing representational strategies to depict the visual features of an environment. Daniel Hutchinson proposes something different: artworks that embrace the indeterminacy of a place in flux. Rather than attempting to make fixed historical documents – documentary pictures of an urban environment in stasis – the aim is instead to make paintings that are themselves indeterminate and even volatile. From the actual imprints of matter and real things, the artist composes formal and discursive elements, creating zones of infinite possibility. As surprisingly unfixed pictures, these painting/printmaking hybrids are as unpredictable and irreducible as the features or characteristics that constitute the identity of the place where they’re made.
 
These works call attention to dialectical relationships between representation and abstraction; process and intention; colour and non-colour; and minimalism and decorative ornamentation. Working with a medium exhausted by its own traditions and expansions, Hutchinson deprives painting of its legible picture, opting for a frottage technique (rubbing and scrapping paint across canvas over textures) and indexing his immediate surroundings for shape, colour and form. The light from studio windows, the topography of studio floorboards, the shape and line of botanical forms found in a nearby conservatory, and even textile patterns sourced from the neighbourhood garment district influence the deployment of abstraction intrinsically linked to the city of Hamilton.
 
 
The artist gratefully acknowledges the funding support of the City of Hamilton’s City Enrichment Fund.
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© 2006 - 2020 Daniel Hutchinson. All rights reserved.
  • 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