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2 of 2 Gallery is pleased to announce two solo
exhibitions of new drawings by Vancouver based artist Andrea
Nunes and new paintings by Toronto based artist Jesse Albert. ANDREA NUNES Intimating a Possible Organization of a World Whose Complexity Seems Ungraspable The title of this show is also its statement of intent. The world whose complexity seems ungraspable is Nunes’ own studio/living room, which, over the months preceding the show, she turned into a kind-of “fortress of solitude” (comic book phraseology invoked by a frustrated former roommate). Here she produced the careful still-life drawings that make up the show, selecting and recording various sundry objects of her immediate surroundings. String, sentimental knick-knacks, notes, blotting tissues and rejected drawings all factor into an increasingly self-reflexive exercise modeled on Daniel Spoerri's 1961 work An Anecdoted Topography of Chance. Overarched by a sense of the absurd, the drawings are at once a cognitive map and an unchartable, shifting terrain inhabited by objects— which in their crumpled, abandoned states seem to transform into emotional beings. A mothballed project, a peace offering wrapped up as a stick of dynamite, and scrunched notes unfold into a larger, messy narrative: a diary of the project and its casualties. Born in 1980, Andrea Nunes received her BFA in 2004 at Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver. In 2008 her exquisite drawings were part of a group exhibition, “Drifting, Slowly”, along with the work of renowned artists Rhonda Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky and George Legrady at Pari Nadimi Gallery, (Toronto, Canada). Nunes has been exhibiting her work since 2002 at venues including Gallery 42 (Vancouver, Canada), Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, (Penticton, Canada), The Crying Room Gallery, (Vancouver, Canada), Access Artist Run Centre, (Vancouver, Canada). JESSE ALBERT Jesse Albert’s exhibition 2 of 2 Gallery consists of mixed-media paintings made using stencils, collage and freehand drawing. Referencing Nouveau-Realisme, Graffiti and Street-Art, Albert’s photorealistic scenes blur the lines between painting, photography and printmaking. Layers of torn Paper, Spraypaint and industrial wall compounds are used to create a simulacrum of the city walls that house his narratives. Depicting young urbanites and urban spaces with a visceral directness, Albert’s work incorporates elements of biography and art history to create a dialogue between past narratives and present interventions. Albert’s work engages viewers with the dialogue of contemporary street culture, inviting them to see the complex structure and often-unnoticed beauty found in everyday moments Born in 1986, Jesse Albert received his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Ontario College of Art & Design (Toronto, Canada), 2009. Albert is a recipient of two awards, Painting In The Expanded Field: Relative Space Design Competition, OCAD and Av Isaacs Award for Excellence in Contemporary Painting, OCAD. His work was exhibited at OCAD+ – OCAD Grad Ex. 2009 (Toronto, ON). For more information about Andrea Nunes & Jesse Albert or the gallery, please visit our website www.2of2gallery.com or contact the gallery at info@2of2gallery.com 254 Niagara St., Toronto, Canada or 416591-6464. |
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2 of 2 Gallery | 254 Niagara Street, Toronto, ON, Canada, M6J
2L8 | 416-591-6464 | info@2of2gallery.com
| www.2of2gallery.com