Wynick/Tuck Gallery
401 Richmond St. W., Ground Floor
Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3A8
www.wynicktuckgallery.ca
For immediate release, January 12, 2007.
Rettig, Encountering Openness, 2005-06,
mixed media, 40” x 27” x 18”
Ted Rettig
New and Selected Works
January 9 – 31, 2007
Opening, January 13
Artist Present, 2-5pm
We are pleased to announce that an exhibition of new work by Ted Rettig opens Saturday, January
13, 2-5pm.
Rettig, referring often to his own more than 30 year history, (he has exhibited with Wynick/Tuck
Gallery since 1974) has installed a remarkable exhibition combining elements of his repertoire of
finely carved stones, found objects, drawing, photographs and text into three dimensional and wall
mounted assemblages and book works. As well, Rettig has included intimate drawings on paper
and clay.
For Rettig’s last exhibition at our gallery, Gary Michael Dault wrote, in the Globe and Mail “On the
one hand, he makes remarkably gnomic and indeed almost mute works often involving, say, the
light carving of runic marks, often botanically derived, into surfaces of smooth rocks. On the other
hand, he fashions sculptural works from jangles of found materials, bringing his unlikely elements
together in poetic but puzzling three-dimensional collages.----- What’s it about? Who Knows. The
pleasure afforded by agglomeration? The mystical, quasi-surrealistic pleasure of assemblage.”
Other Gallery Artist news:
Adams, Beaver Casino, 25/35, 1998, lithograph
on paper, 75 cm x 96.5 cm
Kim Adams, Roadside Attractions opens at the Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery on Friday, January
12, 7-9 pm and continues until March 25, 2007. The following is a quote from the exhibition notes:
“With his combination of densely industrialized miniature model landscapes and hybrid vehicular
sculptures, the work of Kim Adams is among the most recognizable in contemporary Canadian Art.
Intimate in scale, Roadside Attractions features prints from KW/AG’s permanent collection,
complemented by several model sculptures including 1987-89’s Artists’ Colony.
Tap, River's Edge, 2006, oil on canvas, 80" x 90".
Monica Tap, Séance, an exhibition of new paintings opens at the Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery,
also on Friday, January 12, 7-9pm. As part of The River Grand Chronicles, this work is informed
by Homer Watson’s connection to the land and nature. Tap’s work in this exhibition will act as a
metaphor for things unseen and malleable time.
The River Grand Chronicles series at KW|AG presents projects with a strong connection to the
Grand River and the regions it winds through. As with other KW|AG programming series, the River
Grand Chronicles remind their viewers to consider how stories, be they fictional or true, have
resonance beyond geographic boundaries.
Pete & Devon - 2006
2 Channel DVD - 15:33, colour w/ sound (Edition of 5 w/ 3 artist proofs)
Kelly Mark has two video installations included in the current exhibition, We Can Do This Now, at
The Power Plant Art Gallery, Toronto, December16, 2006 to February 9, 2007.
The exhibition notes state: “We Can Do This Now responds to Toronto’s art scene at a time when
the excitement over new buildings for the city’s arts organizations is creating a climate of
expectation.”
Recognizing this spirit of the time, the exhibition draws on ideas of potential and possibility by
focusing on what constitutes a strong arts community and how artistic ideas are generated and
sustained. Curators Gregory Burke and Helena Reckitt resist the attempt to survey local artistic
tendencies. Instead they select work by a limited number of Toronto-based artists from several
generations in order to explore themes of contemporary art’s production, presentation, and
reception. They also seek to trace a set of relationships and attitudes before they have crystallized
into an identifiable art movement or set of formal properties.”