Hidden Variables : Harps & Laurel

Jinny Yu from her solo exhibition Hidden Variables currently at Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto:

Katharine Harvey's hand-painted float glass and lightbox Shea's Victoria (Harps And Laurel) down the street from the gallery:

At Once

 Jinny Yu from her solo exhibition At Once currently at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto:

Abstract painting/concrete surface*

From the group exhibition Propellers To Palms, Jinny Yu's oil on aluminium currently at General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto:

* In Yu's own words, "Oscillating between the fields of abstract painting and concrete surfaces, I seek out and attempt to depict aspects of painting both before and beyond pictorial space while drawing attention to the act of painting as bodily and time-based praxis."

Art Spin @ Tower Automotive

I went to the 4th annual Art Spin exhibition yesterday at the abandoned early 20th century Tower Automotive building in Toronto's west end.  In addition to the art works on view, the architecture of the venue itself is also worth seeing.  Some of the participating artists:

Kal Mansur:

Jennifer Rose Sciarrino:

Jinny Yu:

Caroline Larsen:

Celia Neubauer:

Martie Giefert:

John Haney & Carey Jernigan:

Elinor Whidden:  (Those are windshield wipers!)

Geoffrey Pugen:

Layne Hinton:

Michael Toke's video sculpture:

The Tower Automotive building:

Yu's Non-painting Painting

General Hardware Contemporary has quickly become one of my favourite art galleries in Toronto since its opening two years ago.  Its latest exhibition Non-painting Painting by Jinny Yu is a thought-provoking display of Yu's works oscillating between the realms of abstract painting and object.

Yu at General Hardware, Toronto 2012:

Stroked, crumpled and bent

One of the 60 Painters, Jinny Yu at Humber Arts and Media Studios, Toronto 2012:

Yu at General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto 2012: