Sequence and Passage

Cambridge Galleries,

Cambridge, Ontario

November 6, 2010 – January 2, 2011

Sequence and passage is an exhibition of paintings by two Toronto-based artists. Greatly different in scale and treatment, the series of works by Mara Korkola and Monica Tap are derived from observations of passage and movement of respective locations.

Tap’s grand scale paintings work as a series representing scenery in one brief moment translated in painting from information captured in digital video format from a moving vehicle. Exaggeration of the information lost in the digital registry of the initial image provides a rich and textural treatment of the landscape and enables a provoking sense of movement across six large panels constituting the series.

In contrast, Korkala works on a very small scale in series that provide us with access to her walking experiences in a Toronto park. Moving through the space across multiple panels in the scene, captures the changing light and complicated vantage points, giving us a glimpse of the detail the artist encountered on her original walk. .

In these grand gestures of movement and passage of time, both artists offer a breath of fresh air and a new level of physical engagement with landscape imagery.

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