Exhibitions

West Gallery

Summer Group Show
Bonnie Baxter, Jessica Eaton, Derek Evans, & Alex Kisilevich

July 22nd – August 21st
Opening reception Thursday July 22nd 6–9 PM

ANGELL GALLERY is pleased to present its annual Summer Group Show featuring the photographic work of artists Bonnie Baxter, Jessica Eaton, Derek Evans, and Alex Kisilevich. The exhibition will be on display in the West Gallery from Thursday, July 22 to Saturday, August 21, 2010. An opening night reception will be held on Thursday, July 22 from 6 – 9pm.

Summer group shows are the perfect time to try things out and test ideas, to draw links between variables we suspect will mesh perfectly. When the results are positive, the new combinations we find can provide momentum and food for thought for both the public, and artists alike. Summer is best most of all for giving us the chance to expose ourselves to possibilities – both experientially and imaginatively – that are just out of reach most of the time.

From the suggestively haunting, semi-autobiographical fictions of Bonnie Baxter to the rich, quasi-abstract work of Derek Evans; and from the uninhabited science-fiction dreamscapes of Jessica Eaton to the ironic society pop of Alex Kisilevich, this summer’s show features a selection of photo-based artists whose highly developed styles merge in a sequence that is at once heterogeneous, and a textbook example of a classic summer group exhibition. These are artists who, although in widely different ways, all exploit traditional notions of beauty: their work complements each others’ because each is able to give us a powerful aesthetic experience, while making us doubt that beauty is all it’s cracked up to be, much less all there is to take pleasure in.

At the heart of their practices is a conceptual kernel that combines the camera’s registration of reality with a tell-tale re-imagining of what that “reality” may be, or may involve. As such, they fit together like a four-part harmony that retains the individuality of its parts, but comes together with a flourish.

Bonnie Baxter’s work has been featured in galleries throughout North and South America, Europe, and China. Her work has been published in Transatlantic Passages: Literary and Cultural Relations between Quebec and Francophone Europe. Moreover, Bonnie has taught in the Print Media Program at Concordia University, Montréal (Québec) since 1984.

Jessica Eaton has exhibited her work in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and New York. Recognized by Flash Forward under the category Emerging Photographers from the UK, Canada and USA, Eaton has received critical review in both the Pop Philosophy Exhibition Catalogue and 01 Magazine.

Derek Evans has had his work exhibited at various exhibitions in Toronto and Montreal. Based out of Montreal, he has been exhibiting his works since 2005, and is the recipient of the Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist grant.

Toronto-based artist Alex Kisilevich has been featured in exhibitions in Toronto, Boston, and Washington. A recipient of the Portfolio Reviews Exhibition Award at the Contact Photography Festival in 2010, his work has been published in Flash Forward, Canadian Art, and Eye Weekly.

Works in the show

Bonnie Baxter Fog 1 digital print on polypropylene 51" × 38.5" inquire about price price guide	Bonnie Baxter Fog 2 digital print on polypropylene 38.5" × 51" inquire about price price guide
Bonnie Baxter Fog 3 digital print on polypropylene 38.5" × 51" inquire about price price guide	Jessica Eaton Landscape Near Mission Archival Pigment Print 16" × 20" inquire about price price guide
Jessica Eaton Landscape Missing a Byte Archival Pigment Print 16" × 20" inquire about price price guide	Jessica Eaton Triple Eclipse Archival Pigment Print 25" × 20" inquire about price price guide
Jessica Eaton Shadow 9 Archival Pigment Print 20" × 16" inquire about price price guide	Derek Evans Soma c-print 78.75" × 71" inquire about price price guide
Derek Evans Helix c-print 60" × 60" inquire about price price guide	Derek Evans Cluster c-print 36" × 72" inquire about price price guide
Derek Evans Flair c print 48" × 72" inquire about price price guide	Alex Kisilevich Untitled C-Print 25" × 25" Edition 3/5, 2AP Also available at 15" x 15" inquire about price price guide
Alex Kisilevich Salesman C-Print 25" × 30" Edition 4/5, 2 AP Also available at 15" x 15" inquire about price price guide	Alex Kisilevich Spilt Drink C-Print 25" × 30" Edition 2/5, 2 AP Also available at 18" x 15" inquire about price price guide
Alex Kisilevich Patrick, Junior & Senior C-Print 25" × 30" Edition 4/5, 1 AP Also available at 15" x 15" inquire about price price guide	Alex Kisilevich Untitled C-Print 25" × 25" Edition 4/5, 2 AP Also available at 40" x 40" inquire about price price guide

Press on the show

• Artist profile: Alex Kisilevich
  Now Magazine, August 10th 2010

more images of work by Bonnie Baxter

more images of work by Jessica Eaton

more images of work by Derek Evans

more images of work by Alex Kisilevich