HALF-LIGHT OVER THE BALTIC SEA
Angell Gallery, Toronto
February 23 to March 24, 2012
ANGELL GALLERY is pleased to present "Half-Light Over the Baltic Sea,” the premiere solo exhibition by gallery artist Daniel Hutchinson. The exhibition will be on display in the West Gallery from February 23rd to March 24th, 2012. An opening reception will be held on Thursday February 23rd from 6:00-9:00pm.
Half-light alludes to the time of day when the sun is just below the horizon, flooding the atmosphere and landscape with its last light. This is a time of dramatic transformation where the colour temperature of the world’s forms continuously alters with the shifting light. Daniel Hutchinson’s first solo exhibition in Toronto comprises recent paintings made in the wake of a prolific three-month residency on the island of Gotland, Sweden.
Hutchinson’s inaugural hometown solo exhibition will present seascape paintings unified by their shared response to the half-light. Unlike static representations of seascapes, these recent paintings venture to mimic the action and movement of the sea in ribbon-like brushstrokes of fluid paint. These brushstrokes map gestures that caress the picture surface while depicting depth, illusion and an optical morphology of water, light and paint. The highly reflective surfaces of these paintings promise a dynamic viewing experience, aiming to inspire wonder – like gazing over the sea at half-light.
Rendered with a variety of grey and black hues on panel, Hutchinson’s near monochrome oil paintings largely avoid the conventional modeling of light and dark values in paint. Instead, the image emerges where actual light is caught in the grooves and reflected from the ridges of every meticulous brushstroke. The viewer’s movement enables light to shift across the surface, simultaneously revealing and concealing parts of the subject. These pictures are constantly on the verge of abstraction and disintegration, as the movement of light over the surface plunges areas into deep and endless blackness while bringing other areas into brilliant and reflected light.
REVIEWS OF THIS SHOW
* Terrence Dick, Daniel Hutchinson at Angell Gallery, Akimbo, March 13th 2012
* Christopher Young, Daniel Hutchinson: Half-Light Over the Baltic Sea, Viewers Like You, February 25th 2012
* Today in Toronto: Daniel Hutchinson, Four at the Winch Quebec and more, Toronto Life, February 23rd 2012
* Priscilla Frank, Daniel Hutchinson's Hypnotic Half-Light Seascapes, The Huffington Post, February 23rd 2012
* R. M. Vaughan, Art that Avoids the Apocalypse, The Globe and Mail, December 30th 2011
Half-light alludes to the time of day when the sun is just below the horizon, flooding the atmosphere and landscape with its last light. This is a time of dramatic transformation where the colour temperature of the world’s forms continuously alters with the shifting light. Daniel Hutchinson’s first solo exhibition in Toronto comprises recent paintings made in the wake of a prolific three-month residency on the island of Gotland, Sweden.
Hutchinson’s inaugural hometown solo exhibition will present seascape paintings unified by their shared response to the half-light. Unlike static representations of seascapes, these recent paintings venture to mimic the action and movement of the sea in ribbon-like brushstrokes of fluid paint. These brushstrokes map gestures that caress the picture surface while depicting depth, illusion and an optical morphology of water, light and paint. The highly reflective surfaces of these paintings promise a dynamic viewing experience, aiming to inspire wonder – like gazing over the sea at half-light.
Rendered with a variety of grey and black hues on panel, Hutchinson’s near monochrome oil paintings largely avoid the conventional modeling of light and dark values in paint. Instead, the image emerges where actual light is caught in the grooves and reflected from the ridges of every meticulous brushstroke. The viewer’s movement enables light to shift across the surface, simultaneously revealing and concealing parts of the subject. These pictures are constantly on the verge of abstraction and disintegration, as the movement of light over the surface plunges areas into deep and endless blackness while bringing other areas into brilliant and reflected light.
REVIEWS OF THIS SHOW
* Terrence Dick, Daniel Hutchinson at Angell Gallery, Akimbo, March 13th 2012
* Christopher Young, Daniel Hutchinson: Half-Light Over the Baltic Sea, Viewers Like You, February 25th 2012
* Today in Toronto: Daniel Hutchinson, Four at the Winch Quebec and more, Toronto Life, February 23rd 2012
* Priscilla Frank, Daniel Hutchinson's Hypnotic Half-Light Seascapes, The Huffington Post, February 23rd 2012
* R. M. Vaughan, Art that Avoids the Apocalypse, The Globe and Mail, December 30th 2011
