June 28 – August 13, 2022
Reception: Saturday, July 9, 2 – 5pm
Lonsdale Gallery is pleased to present a matter of perspective, featuring Andrew Ooi’s geometric abstract relief sculptures and Tyler Matheson’s dynamic concrete paintings. This exhibition explores questions of identity, transformation, and perception. In the words of English art critic John Berger: “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.” Ooi and Matheson’s respective material explorations, combined with their use of mirroring and repetition patterns, invite viewers to open themselves up to new modes of seeing the world, which in turn has the potential of reframing one’s concept of self.
Andrew Ooi & Tyler Matheson, a matter of perspective, Exhibition Images
Main Floor, Lonsdale Gallery
image courtesy of Matthew Sze
Andrew Ooi
Scale 3
2022
ink, paper, cord
22 x 22 x 2 inches (unframed)
$3,500
Andrew Ooi’s meticulously constructed hand-made paper relief sculptures arrange desperate shapes and elements to create intricate tangible networks of forms and associations exploring themes of infinity, reflection, symmetry, and perspective. The artist builds his unique compositions using a multi-faceted, conceptual approach, developed from his sustained fascination with how to transform a two-dimensional media into three-dimensions.
Ooi combines geometric abstraction with design elements to build his striking multidimensional sculptural forms. The artist’s unconventional approach to working with everyday materials takes inspiration from Japanese joinery and origami techniques. Through the act of painstakingly hand cutting, folding, and arranging Japanese gampi paper, Ooi highlights to the mutual physical relationship and exchange between materials and the maker.
image courtesy of Matthew Sze
Andrew Ooi
Scale 4
2022
ink, paper
22.5 x 22.5 x 1 inches (unframed)
$3,500
image courtesy of Matthew Sze
Andrew Ooi, Scale 4 (detail), 2022
Andrew Ooi & Tyler Matheson, a matter of perspective, Exhibition Images
Main Floor, Lonsdale Gallery
Ooi’s practice seeks to make sense of the world. His painstaking obsessive arrangement of forms and visual elements reveal a complex network of meaning and associations that explore broader themes of identity, anthropology, and human nature. His creative exploration of the endless creative possibilities of paper, combined with the deftness in which he manipulates his materials, actively draws attention to it’s relationship to art history and it’s perception as a medium of utility, durability, innovation and evolution. Grids and repeating patters create open-ended forms, organizing and obscuring perspectives, permitting viewers to derive their own meaning from them. There is a meditative aspect to Ooi’s sculptural compositions. Repeating patterns, grids, and subtle tonal gradients produce mesmerizing optical effects that catch the eye and invite further contemplation.
image courtesy of Matthew Sze
Andrew Ooi
Scale 2
2022
ink, paper, cord
21.75 x 21.75 x 2 inches (unframed)
$3,500
image courtesy of Matthew Sze
Andrew Ooi
Scale Study
2022
ink, paper, cord
15.75 x 15.75 x 2.5 inches (unframed)
$3,000
image courtesy of Matthew Sze
Andrew Ooi
Scale 1
2022
ink, paper, cord
21 x 21 x 2 inches (unframed)
$3,500
Andrew Ooi & Tyler Matheson, a matter of perspective, Exhibition Images
Main Floor, Lonsdale Gallery
Tyler Matheson
Oblivion 6
2021
mixed media on canvas
16 x 12 inches
$950
Tyler Matheson’s latest series ‘Oblivion’, builds upon the artist’s sustained invagination of identity and performativity. Presented alongside a selection of the artist’s ‘Parallax’ series, of vivid and colourful concrete paintings, Matheson sheds light on the complex relationship between selfhood and perception. Matheson creates highly textured rich paintings using unconventional industrial material, like tiling grout. The artist utilizes thick and gestural applications of grout, forming a rigid and uneven texture on the surface of the canvas.
Tyler Matheson
Oblivion 5
2021
mixed media on canvas
12 x 10 inches
$600
Tyler Matheson
Parallax (Red, Green, Blue)
2020
tiling grout and spray paint on board
14 x 11 inches
$600
Andrew Ooi & Tyler Matheson, a matter of perspective, Exhibition Images
Main Floor, Lonsdale Gallery
As an artist, Matheson carefully considers his chosen materials and how they will be viewed to encourage an embodied energetic exchange between the viewer and the work, to create what the artist refers to as a “codependent performance”. What emerge are eye-catching dynamic compositions, which shift and transform depending on the position of the viewer.
Similarly, Matheson’s ‘Oblivion’ series plays with spatial relationships between the viewer and the work. In lieu of a vivid saturated colour pallet, Matheson adopts more subdued industrial grey hues, accentuated with inlays of reflective iridescent forms. These reflective zones mirroring the viewer back to themselves. As the series title suggests, the pieces evokes an unconscious state of limbo, caught between being and becoming.
Tyler Matheson
Oblivion 8
2022
mixed media on canvas,
12 x 10 inches
$600
Tyler Matheson
Oblivion 22
2022
mixed media on canvas
16 x 12 inches
$950
Tyler Matheson
Parallax (Teal and Pink)
2020
tiling grout and spray paint on board
24 x 30 inches
$1,000
Tyler Matheson
Oblivion 9
2022
mixed media on canvas
12 x 10
$600
Tyler Matheson
Parallax (Red, Blue)
2020
tiling grout and spray paint on board
14 x 11 inches
$600
Tyler Matheson
Parallax (Red, Green, Blue)
2020
tiling grout and spray paint on board
12 x 10 inches
$500
Tyler Matheson
Oblivion 10
2022
mixed media on canvas
12 x 10 inches
$600
Andrew Ooi & Tyler Matheson, a matter of perspective, Exhibition Images
Main Floor, Lonsdale Gallery
Tyler Matheson
Parallax (Red, Blue, Geen)
2020
tiling grout and spray paint on board
12 x 10 inches
$500
Tyler Matheson
Parallax (Purple and Teal)
2020
tiling grout and spray paint on canvas
12 x 10 inches
$500
Andrew Ooi & Tyler Matheson, a matter of perspective, Exhibition Images
Main Floor, Lonsdale Gallery
The artists would like to acknowledge the funding support from
the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.
