Wren Jackson

new paintings
July 2 - July 15

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Originally from Vancouver, Wren Jackson completed an art's education in Toronto at the Ontario College of Art and Design, graduating from the Experimental Arts department in 1989. In 1995, Jackson opened Tableau Vivant, a Queen West storefront gallery, which operated on a hybrid model - part commercial gallery and part artist run centre - with an emphasis on programming emerging and mid-career Toronto artists. She closed the gallery in 2000, in order to concentrate on her own work. Jackson explores philosophical themes in the context of the material specificity of photography and oil painting. At Zsa Zsa in 2005, she exhibited The Perfect Crime, a suite of 6 digital photographs based on the cultivated landscape of High Park, Toronto. This work questioned the ways aesthetics are applied in order to create a definition of culture-based reality and explored the figure/ground construct with a cross referencing between images. This current exhibition of oil paintings draws from the same subject, integrating figure and ground in single works that stage intensely subjective pictures of a sought after reality and truth.

Wren Jackson
June 26, 2009