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2of2 Gallery
is pleased to announce two solo exhibitions of new drawings by
Vancouver based artist Andrea Nunes and new paintings by
Toronto based artist Stella Pagani. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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). __________________________________________________________________________________________________ STELLA PAGANI Stella Pagani’s recent series of paintings are reflective of her childhood, the evolution of her character and soul between the past and present. Pagani’s new paintings at 2 of 2 Gallery evoke feelings of nostalgia with a blurred overtone, a mixture of text, photo, and paint, plays out a dream like sequence or lost memory. Drawing in separation from her summer home on the shore of New Brunswick, and its mixture of sea and rolling hills, the subject is aesthetically suited for a range of pastel and soft, bright colours that portray the innocence of childhood, and serve well to contrast her current urban surroundings, and the maturation of Pagani herself as an artist. Her background in photography aids the process by which she creates her work, ensuring an emphasis on composition within each individual photo and the pieces themselves. Her painting methods are congruent with her current style, which can be described as abstract expressionist with a strong photographic element. Pagani places a strong emphasis on colour contrast and experimentation with texturing and various application methods within the given medium. For more information about Andrea Nunes & Stella Pagani 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