Art Gallery of Mississauga
September 14 to October 29, 2006
As an exhibition of figurative painting, sculpture and photo-based
works, Dancing to the Invisible Piper: Canadian Figurative
Art expresses, through the work of an expansive variety
of Canadian artists, a common search for meaning and contemplation
of both mirrored and shaped realities. The use of the figure
is a visual manifestation and exploration of these realities.
Artists have incorporated the human form in their art throughout
history. The figure has been used to tell stories, to document
special events, to protest social and political injustices,
to dream the impossible, to share beliefs and to lament our
shortcomings. It has been used to reflect our world. Today,
as in the past, artists continue to choose the human form as
the most powerful and connected source to convey their message.
It is this humanistic expression that unifies the artwork in
Dancing to the Invisible Piper.
From the large encaustic heads in Tony Scherman's paintings
to the sensitive graphite drawings of Sophie Jodoin the artists
in this exhibition all have one thing in common: their masterful
ability to execute the figure in their chosen media. Whether
it be the bold photographic work of Michael Chambers; the mixed
media collage work of Angela Grossmann; the life-size figures
of David Pellettier; the sensitive photographs by Kelly McCray;
the new media works of John Oswald; the spontaneous paintings
and drawings of Aleks Bartosik or the provocative sculptures
of Richard Stipl, there is something in Dancing to the Invisible
Piper that will speak to the heart of everyone of us.
Rob Freeman will present a curator's talk at 7:30 on the night
of the opening reception.
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