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)
  • Contact
  • Writing
Picture
Drawing For Painting For Electric Light, coloured pencil and graphite on isometric paper, 2013

PAINTINGS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT
YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto
11 May - 10 August, 2013

For his solo exhibition at YYZ, Daniel Hutchinson has produced a series of site-sensitive paintings with coloured fluorescent light components under the title Paintings for Electric Light.

Seeking contingency rather than autonomy and emphasizing the primacy of perceptual experience, these pictures are produced considering carefully composed external relations–the gallery’s architecture and the relative positions of pictures and lights–and the moving spectator who perceives new conditions at every spatial location. The internal compositions of the paintings are geometric patterns that draw formal cues from the light fixtures, as well as the shapes of the supports, and the shapes of the cast light or shadows inside and outside of the picture plane.

These paintings for electric light continue the artist’s interest in the métier of painting, the tradition of the monochrome, and the interactivity of retinal opticality, but depart from the critical relationship to pictorialism his paintings have always maintained. Representing a completely new approach to painting for the artist, these works embrace the necessity of total non-objective abstraction and sculptural relationships.

The artist would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

Read the essay: A Field Without Origin / Notes on Paintings for Electric Light by Craig Rodmore

REVIEWS:
Daniel Hutchinson by Ben Portis, Border Crossings, 2013
Daniel Hutchinson / Paintings for Electric Light by Shellie Zhang, Artoronto
Daniel Hutchinson’s Paintings for Electric Light by Patricia Ritacca, YYZ


Picture
The artist would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
© 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