ANDREW RUCKLIDGE
A Bright Room Scanned Darkly
Opening Reception Friday, November 24th, 2017, 6 – 9 pm
exhibition runs: November 24th – December 23rd, 2017
Christopher Cutts Gallery is pleased to announce its 5th one man show by Toronto based painter Andrew Rucklidge.
This exhibition titled ‘A Bright Room Scanned Darkly’ continues Rucklidge’s multidisciplinary approach to painting. His practice has incorporated a variety of material techniques; such as, encaustic, egg tempera, distemper (a technique that incorporates glue-size tempera on an unprepared ground) and oil, both on canvas and wooden panel.
The subject matter of these works alternates between capriccio style, fantastic arctic landscape and structurally sound abstraction.
Rucklidge states that: “The starting point for this exhibition comes from the playful act of scanning moving paintings and sketches I’d made of northern Canada… As such it is an exhibition whose themes are remoteness and the often invisible reach of the atmosphere that connects heavily and sparsely populated regions.”
They are arresting and otherworldly paintings. Yet they are familiar in their Nordic, solitary expansiveness.
