Saturday 25 June 2011

Davidson's zencrushing strokes

I went to see Michael Davidson's show Zencrusher at Toronto's General Hardware Contemporary yesterday.  Davidson's powerful brush strokes create interesting positive and negative spaces that allow viewers a lot of freedom to roam and ponder.  This fantastic show nicely echoes the Abstract Expressionist New York exhibition currently on view at the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario).



I remember Pierre Soulages' breathtaking large scale black paintings ...