April 27, 2016
For Immediate Release
ATTN: Arts Editor
PAT McDERMOTT: The Properties of Language
opening reception: Thursday, April 28, 6 – 9 PM
exhibition runs: April 28 – May 28, 2016
Christopher Cutts Gallery is pleased to announce its 2nd solo exhibition of work by Kingston-based artist, Pat McDermott. This exhibition continues McDermott’s investigation of the relationship between non-objective composition and the subjective gaze of the viewer.
All works in the show are 24” x 24” acrylic on MDF board. They are commanding, elegant objects sparse in their compositional arrangements. Nevertheless, taught, carefully rendered and non-objective.
McDermott states that, “Paintings often represent physical things. Upon seeing a painting that does not appear to represent something, the bewildered viewer asks: What is it? Language comes out of a need to name and share the world and our experience of it with words that represent concepts, ideas and things. Attaching words to objects and ideas represents a failure of sort.” He further puts forth that, “the failure of this naming system is reconciled with painting. When painting negates the naming system of language, painting becomes an experience for a prospective viewer and a challenge for a prospective viewer. I am interested in creating an experience in the viewer that conveys what it feels like to be alive, without using words to describe this feeling.”
For further information please contact:
Director – Christopher Cutts
Gallery Assistant – Marina Greeno-McNeil
Christopher Cutts Gallery 21 Morrow Avenue Toronto ON M6R 2H9 1(416)532-5566
