Swept Away

An exhibition of new paintings by Toronto-based artist John Abrams in his first solo show at our gallery. This exhibition runs concurrently with his show Cinema Vernis at the McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, curated by R.M. Vaughan and with a 48-page colour catalogue that includes essays by Sky Gilbert, John Greyson, Jeremy Podeswa and Christina Zeidler and a panel discussion moderated by R. M Vaughan with participants John Abrams, Andrew Harwood and Janice Hladki.

For his show at our gallery we are presenting Abrams' Swept Away, eight large scale paintings that derive from Lina Wertmuller's 1974 film classic of the same name. In a second room we are presenting smaller scale works based on Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt 1963 (the large Contempt paintings are in the McMaster show).

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John Greyson, video artist and professor, York University

Film is Dead! / Film is Alive!
Janice Hladki, professor, McMaster University, March 2008