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Gertrude Kearns – Architectural Digestions

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Orange-Green Abstract, Architectural Digestions, 2010
acrylic, china marker, permanent marker, & graphite on 4-ply board
60" x 40"
ANGELL GALLERY is pleased to present the upcoming show in the Project Room, Architectural Digestions, by Gertrude Kearns. This will be Gertrude’s first time showing at Angell Gallery and will run from July 22 to August 21. An opening night reception will be held on Thursday, July 22 from 6 – 9pm. Gertrude Kearns’ work is centered in a belief in the positive interaction between painting and architecture. For her this is representative of an idealist striving toward a better social future, one in which art can and would play an important role; when it would be self-evident that art - and the image of art - is central to life because of its unique power to remind us of our humanity, as both creators and creations. We are admonished to stay grounded but too, to maintain our sense of humour, with a light touch and in a graceful painterly tone of voice. These paintings remind us of things, first visually, and then subjectively, spiritually; they seek to edify without moralizing, and do so with both zest and self-awareness. All the formal elements of two-dimensional art, especially color and line, show themselves to be helpful agents for Kearns, in pursuing the logic of her aesthetics. Space unfolds in these mixed-media works along swooping architectonic lines, defying gravitational and positional logic within the purview of their vast mindscapes. Seeming to be located both “inside” and “outside”, to be both lyrical and geometric, and most importantly to be somehow keyed both in major and minor chords, the work swings between these poles effortlessly, engaging us because it is itself so engaged. And if it tacitly acknowledges, most especially in its sheer visual attractions, the distance between the functional role it plays in the world, and what by its nature it wishes to do, it is all the more at home, being and creating at once the thing it is and the thing it suggests. Gertrude’s work has been exhibited in Toronto, Ottawa, and Washington. Her work is included in such notable collections as: the Portrait Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, ON), the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax, NS), Art Collection Canada (Toronto, ON), the Department of National Defense (Ottawa, ON), and the Canadian War Museum (Ottawa, ON). Gertrude’s work has received critical review in Canadian Art magazine, as well as in the National Post, the Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star.
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Blue Abstract, Architectural Digestions, 2009
acrylic, china marker, graphite on paper
76" x 42"
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Green Abstract, Architectural Digestions, 2009
acrylic, china marker, graphite on paper
76" x 42"
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Red Abstract, Architectural Digestions, 2009
acrylic, china marker, graphite on paper
76" x 42"
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Purple abstract, Architectural Digestions, 2009
acrylic, china marker, graphite on paper
76" x 42"