image: Amanda McCavour, Scribble, thread drawing 2010

Lonsdale artist Amanda McCavour is one of the featured artists in this year’s Hard Twist Exhibition, Chroma. Hard Twist is an annual juried fibre exhibition produced by the Gladstone Hotel. Showcasing cutting edge contemporary fibre based work.
Please see below for full details on the exhibition.

Hard Twist: Chroma
3rd & 4th floor galleries
Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen St W Toronto, ON

Exhibition Hours:
Nov 26, 2010 to Jan 30, 2011 – 12pm-5pm
opening: Fri, November 26, 2010 – 6pm-10pm

Year five of this annual juried exhibit is all about colour. Participating artists explore colour symbolism, meaning, relationships and perceptions through textile and fibre-based mediums.

Hard Twist artists present an exceptional palette of works ranging from the monochrome of Angela Iarocci’s subtle scientific exploration Sky Condition that visualizes the climate data of Canada’s urban centres, through American artist Joyce Melander- Dayton’s playful patterned expressions to Amanda McCavour’s intense “super-saturated, super-spiro-scribble decoration that is so bright it’s almost blinding”.

HARD TWIST 5: CHROMA! runs for two full months and is free to the public 12pm-5pm daily in the third and fourth floor public galleries at the Gladstone Hotel

2010 Participants:
Amy Bagshaw, Fiona Bailey, Susan Bidinosti, Monserrat Brandan, Kerry Croghan, Dhashi Farha, Lindsay Fisher, Holly Gabel, Angela Iarocci, Say Ivison, Shuyu Lu, Alanna Lynch, Amanda McCavour, Renata Meirelles, Joyce Melander-Dayton, Melanie Schaffer, Kat Shaughnessy, Mafalda Silva, Marcy Sperry, W Collective, Sarah Waldman-Engel, Jennie Wood

Curators:
Helena Frei and Chris Mitchell,

By Invitation:
Selected works by Bev Hisy presented by Toronto’s MADE in the Gladstone Hotel Cafe. www.madedesign.ca

2010 Jurors:
Eva Ennist, Shaun Moore, and Julie Nicholson