GARY SPEARIN: iNifiNiTi
&
PAINTING BEYOND a body of views
May 12 – August 18, 2012

Public Reception: Friday June 1, 6-8 pm

Since 2007 Gary Spearin has been producing a series of vibrant abstract paintings that are displayed as an installation titled iNifiNiTi. It is conceived as an optical device to explore and to visualize the resonant dynamics of time and our experience and perception of it.

The exhibition and accompanying catalogue is a collaboration between Museum London and the McMaster Museum of Art.

As a complementary installation, PAINTING BEYOND a body of views, Gary Spearin has selected works from the McMaster Museum of Art collection by Art & Language, Marcel Duchamp, Richard Hamilton, Alfredo Jaar, Leon Kossoff and Gerhard Richter to disrupt categorization in a purposeful way and thereby explore "the enigma of things."




The Last Things Before the Last
Curated by E.C. Woodley
May 24 - August 4, 2012

Public Reception: Friday June 1, 6-8 pm
Curator's Talk by E. C. Woodley: Wednesday June 6 at 12:30 pm

Toronto-based artist, composer and curator E.C. Woodley draws on McMaster's art collection in this curatorial project and exhibition. Woodley reconstructs fragments of two previous exhibitions in the Levy Gallery and merges them with other works to become a new, third exhibition based on portraiture and the figure.

Works by Stephen Andrews, Ernst Barlach, Max Beckmann, Ken Currie, Max Dean, Otto Dix, Lucian Freud, Antony Gormley, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Ludwig Meidner, Edvard Munch, Christiane Pflug, Gerhard Richter, Daniel Spoerri, and others

The research, exhibition and brochure were produced in collaboration with University of Toronto MVS Curatorial Studies Program, where E.C. Woodley is a candidate; and with the support of the Ontario Arts Council and Justina M. Barnicke Gallery.

Images (from top): Gary Spearin with iNifiNiTi installation in progress at McMaster Museum of Art;
City of Landau identity card, 1924. Herman H. Levy Fonds, McMaster Museum of Art

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