PRESENTATION HOUSE AUCTION
Coming up tomorrow: the Presentation House Gallery auction!
The star-studded line-up is an undeniably huge draw, and a night of fine dining, cocktails, and music chosen by none other than Stan Douglas is an added bonus. We are so excited about it, we have blogged about it already. Among the works up for auction are these three stunning pieces by Winsor Gallery artists Angela Grossmann, Dana Claxton, and Attila Richard Lukacs.
"This exquisite painting was featured in Grossmann’s recent exhibition, The Future Is Female,
of new paintings and photo collage works that focused on the female
figure. Since the 1980s, she has produced a remarkable body of work
concerned with the complexities of representing the human figure, often
filtered through a feminist perspective. This delicate rendering of an
enigmatic body floating in an indeterminate pink space suggests
displacement and psychological vulnerability. The view from behind of
this ghostly figure emphasizes the power dynamics implicit in the act of
looking, a tension both underscored and leavened by Grossmann’s
application of pigment. The figure simultaneously invites the desiring
gaze of its viewer and dissembles; drawing attention back to its
sketchiness and the sensuous flow of pigment over ground." --Presentation House Gallery
"This work belongs to a series of photographs that Dana Claxton took of
documents from the FBI’s files on the American Indian Movement activist
organization. These pictures highlight how much of the information in
these files, deemed too sensitive for public release, has been redacted.
As Claxton notes, the resulting swathes of blacked-out text take on
abstract qualities in her enlargements produced through analogue means.
The critique this work proposes is thus double-edged, pointing at once
to a political regime of exclusion and discipline as well as the
negation implied in modernist abstraction. Moving away from the
narrative representations of her previous photographs, Claxton’s image
amplifies the layered meanings in the found artifact, as well as the
politics of representation. This poignant work is a powerful expression
of Claxton’s ongoing concern with deconstructing how representations of
First Nations are formed and commodified, both historically and in
contemporary society." --Presentation House Gallery
"One of Canada’s most renowned painters, Attila Lukacs’s artistic
practice has always evolved and pushed the envelope. Often working with
themes of sexuality and social deviance, his work has continually
contested the social reception of art. Through a play of contrast colour
that draws attention to perceptual experience, this seductive painting
is a hazy gestural composition that suggests a haunting aura. Painted in
2010, this work was completed just before his critically acclaimed 2011
‘grey’ series of gestural abstractions. As finessed and technically
proficient as his earlier narrative paintings, these recent abstract
works explore the fluid nature of the medium of painting within a static
image. The intuitive movement, created through meticulous layering and
decisive brush strokes speaks directly to Lukacs’s self-described
‘tantric’ ritualistic process." --Presentation House Gallery
The star-studded line-up is an undeniably huge draw, and a night of fine dining, cocktails, and music chosen by none other than Stan Douglas is an added bonus. We are so excited about it, we have blogged about it already. Among the works up for auction are these three stunning pieces by Winsor Gallery artists Angela Grossmann, Dana Claxton, and Attila Richard Lukacs.
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| Angela Grossmann, Rose Dore 48" x 36.5" oil on vellum 2012 |
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| Dana Claxton, Aim #1 60" x 42" c-print on archival paper 2010 |
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| Attila Richard Lukacs, Untitled 51 x 51 cm bitumen on canvas 2010 |
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