Brimble vs Poldaas

Sights from downtown Toronto last week ...

Mads Brimble's The Keepers at Toronto Sculpture Garden:

Jaan Poldaas at 222 Bay Street:

The Last Poldaas Pictures

Jaan Poldaas (1948-2018, R.I.P.) is showing his final work for the first time at his solo exhibition Jaan Poldaas: 2018 The Last Pictures Show along side his 30th Anniversary: TTC Commission Proposal Studies currently at Birch Contemporary, Toronto:

In case you’re in Toronto, the gallery is hosting a public screening of the 2019 short film Jaan Poldaas: New Work this evening at 18:00, followed by a panel discussion and a Q&A session.  Don't miss it!

Poldaas + Lexier

From the group exhibition The Big Pictures/Small Wonders currently at Birch Contemporary, Toronto ...

Jaan Poldaas's Perasequ:

Micah Lexier's A Minute Of My Time (August 19, 1997 23:40-23:41) and A Minute Of My Time (August 19, 1997 23:19-23:20):

A Colourful Life

Celebrating a lifetime's brilliant works, Jaan Poldaas's not-to-miss retrospective exhibition A Colourful Life currently at Birch Contemporary, Toronto:

Poldaas's black square

I was excited to see Jaan Poldaas's new works from his solo exhibition 2016 just opened last week at Birch Contemporary, Toronto.  Note the presence of an anchoring black square on each of his paintings.

Poldaas 90s

I came across these earlier works by Jaan Poldaas couple weeks ago at Birch Contemporary, Toronto:

Broken Building vs EG

From the group exhibition Form Follows Fiction: Art And Artists In Toronto curated by Luis Jacob at the Art Museum, University of Toronto 2016 ...

Shirley Wiitasalo's Broken Building:

Jaan Poldaas's EG series:

Poldaas's white square

Jaan Poldaas's new works, featuring the white square, at Birch Contemporary, Toronto 2014:

JP's EG

At his summer exhibition EG Series 1978/2011 at Toronto's Birch Libralato Gallery, Jaan Poldaas examined the social use of colours by drawing examples from the public sector.  His monochromatic panels were both representational and abstract at the same time.