Thank you to everyone who made it out to the reception for Forces of Nature, which features exhibitions by Jim Reid and the estate of Philip Iverson.
The exhibition has been extended until May 9, 2010.
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
An Imperfect Order Reception, March 1 2009
Sunday, March 1st marked the opening reception of An Imperfect Order, featuring Jim Reid and Peggy Taylor-Reid. Thank you to all those who came out to celebrate with us. The exhibition will run until Sunday, March 22.
Click below to see more photos from the opening reception.
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
An Imperfect Order – runs February 25-March 22, 2009- opening reception Sunday, March 1st from 1-4pm
The order society attempts to impose onto nature often proves to be imperfect. What people often perceive to be imperfection (chaos) in nature may in fact be a complex type of order.
Jim Reid and Peggy Taylor Reid often draw inspiration from the same rural Ontario landscape. Though they both draw inspiration from the same setting, their work is completely unique in style and concept. This exhibition shows the different interpretations of “ferals” by each artist.
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Jim Reid “Ferals Continued”
For Immediate Release
November 2 – 30, 2007
Jim Reid – Ferals Continued
Jim Reid’s paintings are multi-layered textural earth coloured pastiche that draw us back to questions of identity and place. We live in nature, with nature, protect nature and exploit nature simultaneously. Reid’s continuing series ‘Ferals’ explores these strange contradictions and attempts to understand the systems of controlling the world around us. Through a comprehensive study of apple trees, Reid suggests that this non-native species represents the resilience available in nature to overcome human will.
feral (adj.): having escaped from domestication and become wild
Reid has shown his work for over 25 years in numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout Canada. His style has developed to embrace the spirituality of the natural world and to examine the processes of organic growth, resilience and decay.
Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
Jim Reid: Ferals
NOVEMBER 10-28, 2004
Intense landscape paintings exploring the inevitable wild growth of nature overcoming man’s organization.
A mile east, the oxen nose-blow steam clouds into the grave chill, puff, shake soaked yoke. He heaves a mattock at a stubborn stump. Through her still-young pout she sucks at damp hair. After hewing pine, she suggests apples which he bites wide-mouthed, wincing with the sour. Oxen huff. Let it rot, she says plainly. He over-arms the core at underbrush.
Two hundred years of light drips this clearing. No apple baubles: a post-fruitful palette limns limbs, their osteoancient gestures canvas a feral orchard, gouged, layered, verdure and crowded, yet sky and white, frame woolly chance as harvesting this delight.
-Jonathan Bennett
