EXHIBITION 1010
We are pleased to announce our new programming for 2020: EXHIBITION 1010. Running concurrently with our established solo exhibition programme, this new series of exhibitions opens the gallery to guest artists from across BC; it expands our support and promotion of Canadian based contemporary artists. EXHIBITION 1010 features 10 paintings for 10 days starting on the third Thursday of each month.
AMY STEWART
Real Cold
Sept. 17 – 26, 2020
Amy Stewart’s series Real Cold emerges from her interest in experiences of embodiment. When Stewart was a teenager, her body began to behave strangely. At times, her feet turned painfully cold and blue. An athlete and a child of the outdoors, she gradually noticed that her body’s reactions had changed from the “normal” she had always known. After multiple medical consultations and months of confusion, she finally got a few answers, as well as a decision: doctors said that because of Stewart’s extreme reaction to the cold, only surgery would prevent her from losing her feet.
While surgery restored Stewart’s feet, it did not stop her body’s dramatic shifts in temperature. Years later, she has adapted to the strangeness—to sudden bouts of heat swinging to intense drops to cold. She knows how to cope with these responses by giving her body what it needs, but she still doesn’t understand why her body does what it does.
The paintings in Real Cold trace the fluctuations from heat to cold, and the idea that a single body can contain such opposing forces. The series pairs paintings of contrasting colours; the cool shades of intense cold against the subtle warmth of more temperate weather suggest the uncertainty of bodily responses. Sharp lines cut across her canvases in angular breaking points—the body’s sudden collapse from accumulated tension—or in straight, vertical strokes from one extreme to another.
At a time when we are all impacted by a global health pandemic, we are more acutely aware of the body’s vulnerability. The crisis has forced us to watch people swing suddenly from good health to incapacitating sickness. Even for those who stay healthy, an uncertainty remains about the body’s potential for infection. Stewart’s personal history of bodily oppositions connects in Real Cold to a broader, shared experience of embodiment and our growing awareness of the fundamental ways in which our bodies enclose the uncertain potential for sudden change.
Best of Me 2020
Acrylic on canvas 36″ x 36″
$1,300.00
Come Back and Remember 2020
Acrylic on canvas 36″ x 36″
$1,300.00
Press Fast Forward 2020
Acrylic on canvas 36″ x 36″
$1,300.00
Strange As It Seems 2020
Acrylic on canvas 40″ x 40″
$1,650.00
Drifting and Dreaming 2020
Acrylic on canvas 40″ x 30″
$1,200.00
Looking at Yesterday 2020
Acrylic on canvas 40″ x 30″
$1,200.00
Out of the Darkness 2020
Acrylic on canvas 40″ x 30″
$1,200.00
Through the Hard Times and the Good 2020
Acrylic on canvas 40″ x 30″
$1,200.00
Better Now 2020
Acrylic on canvas 40″ x 30″
$1,200.00
Moments of Surrender 2020
Acrylic on canvas 40″ x 30″
$1,200.00
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