“Cold” by Kevin Peterson – Oil on Panel 2012

Thinkspace is pleased to present Amended, the gallery’s first solo exhibition of new work by Houston based painter Kevin Peterson. Concurrently on display in the project room is More Human Than Human, featuring new work by Canadian artist Jacub Gagnon.

Kevin Peterson’s work is fundamentally motivated by the tension of unexpected juxtapositions; a device the artist uses to evoke psychic states, and affective associations. As an artist with a psychologically driven interest in his subject matter, his understated portrayals of isolation speak of subtle emotional estrangement and social alienation. The artist’s studies in psychology, and his subsequent struggle with addiction, have informed a very human depiction of dysfunction, loss, and estrangement. His paintings depict a contemporary reality defined by contradiction, irresolution, and imperfection, and yet they also remind us of the possibility of change.

“Untitled” by Jacub Gagnon – Acrylic on Canvas 2012

Jacub Gagnon is one of Toronto’s emerging contemporary talents. The artist’s paintings are composed of dramatic
expanses of pitch black negative space, populated by colorful hyper-realist renderings of wildlife in whimsical situations. The little creatures of Gagnon’s imaginings surrealistically activate human objects with both absurd and adorable end results. Meticulously detailed and rendered, with the application of delicate layers, Gagnon’s colors and textures are jewel like. The artist’s scenarios are those of fantasy, summoned by an unfettered imagination and uninhibited by the restrictive logic of reality. Gagnon probes the fine line between the innocuous and the sinister, effortlessly subverting the order of the natural world.

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