Opening Reception Thursday, July 10th 2008 5PM – 9PM
Ted Tucker, NC-17
Rory Dean, New Paintings
Gerald Baer, outdoor installation
Opening Reception: Thursday July 10th, 2008, 5pm – 9pm
Exhibition runs until: August 9th, 2008
Christopher Cutts Gallery, 21 Morrow Avenue, Toronto, ON, M6R 2H9, 416 532 5566
From July 5th to August 9th the Christopher Cutts Gallery will be exhibiting the latest series of work by Toronto artists Andrew Ted Tucker and Rory Dean and Gerald Baer.
Ted Tucker
NC-17 was coined after the Motion Picture Association’s film rating of themes and content deemed unsuitable for audiences under the age of seventeen. It is a classification reserved for films containing sexuality, offensive language, explicit nudity, gore, violence, & or drug abuse. These artworks, painted in a cinematic style, pay homage to 80’s teen movies frequently classified under this rating, films the artist remembers with great reverie & romance owing to their taboo during his childhood and evolution from fantasy into reality, from adolescence to manhood.
These works were rendered using airbrush & academic oil techniques (imprimatura & glazing), Tucker paints from fabricated digital collages. Environments, created using stolen Internet images, Photoshop and 3d rendering software, implanted with a cast of friends documented using green screen technology and digital cameras. Seemingly appropriate tools to assemble a schizophrenic tale narrated by an office confined AV loans technician banished to a media filled dungeon in the Ontario College of Art and Design.
Rory Dean
Derivative of traditional Dutch genre paintings, this series is purposefully monochromatic, an anachronistic-modern hybrid, intimate and moonlit. “My goal was ambiguity—I didn’t set out to achieve an overt consistent narrative”. These are studies of children acting on impulse, behaving in ways they don’t always understand, their nascent spontaneity and compulsion expressed as a youthful creature of the night.
