The Christopher Cutts Gallery is proud to present “John Meredith: An Overview,” an exciting follow-up to the successful run of “William Ronald: After Twenty Five Years,” a survey of his older brother’s career.

Though they grew up together and enjoyed influential careers at the same time, the only thing William and John Smith had in common was their forsaken last name. In the 50s, both brothers dropped ‘Smith,’ becoming William Ronald and John Meredith.

John was known to have been introverted and reserved, a stark contrast to William’s theatricality. Where William was a rebel, John was courteous. Ronald’s aesthetic was bold and striking, while Meredith’s was lyrical and methodical.

Meredith, who found Ronald’s Sixties-New-York-Kootz scene overpowering, stayed in Toronto and found success with the Isaacs Gallery. His work was immediately celebrated for his original approach to abstraction. His methods were instinctual, invented rather than learned.

“I attempt, through painting, to express and give visual existence to my thoughts, feelings, and intellectual reaction to things within and outside of me. I try to portray my subconscious reactions to colour, form, beauty, power, etc., to develop new ideas, and to expand them through experimentation.”  John Meredith, 1974