ST CATHARINES – 13th Street Gallery located at 13th Street Winery, 1776 Fourth Avenue in St. Catharines announces its upcoming exhibition featuring new works by two figurative abstract artists Kyle Clements and Geoff Farnsworth, which opens on Saturday, September 23, 2023. Everyone is welcome to MEET THE ARTISTS from 2 – 5 pm. This exhibition will showcase both artists’ joyful exploration of painting techniques from Clement’s Urban landscapes and Farnsworth’s beautiful nature scenes.
Kyle Clements a Toronto artist who studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design explores the tension between positive and negative spaces, hovering between figurative and abstraction. “My curiosity in photography and painting has led my artistic career on the path of discovering my surroundings through the camera’s lens and further in my studio.” Explains Clements. Clements has been exhibiting his works at 13th Street since the gallery opened in 2019 and continues to be a collector’s favourite.
These works by Geoff Farnsworth are in partnership with the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts exhibition of smaller paintings by the artist running from Sept. 26 to
Oct. 22, 2023. Farnsworth draws from his personal experiences and finds inspiration from his environment. “While painting, my attention moves between the intentional forming of images with abstraction, and allowing cues outside my immediate awareness to become melded into the works in progress,” Geoff explains. “I worked on these paintings mostly with a small collection of visual objects which through repetition become as much objects of meditative contemplation as any specific person, animal, or element of nature and environment. This helps my process to become less tied to initial and habitual impulse and more open to surprise and transformation.”
The exhibition continues until Saturday, October 21, 2023
Co-owner of 13th Street Winery, John Mann has been collecting and living with art for over fifty years, both at home and at work. Art has always been an integral part of the Winery’s vision to provide visitors with a unique experience that stimulates all the senses, not just taste.
13th Street Gallery opened its doors on November 2, 2019 offering guests the opportunity to view and purchase original artwork from the collection and beyond. The collection includes works by some of Canada’s most celebrated artists, including Harold Town of Toronto’s Painters Eleven and Jean-Paul Riopelle and Rita Letendre of Montreal’s Les Automatistes movements. The Gallery features both contemporary and historical Canadian fine art in a series of changing exhibitions. The Gallery is dedicated to selling Canadian art.
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For more information contact Margie Galita at 13th Street Gallery located at
1776 Fourth Avenue, St. Catharines ON phone: 289 968 1840
email: margie@manngallery.ca
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