Conundrum

Conundrum | installation view of wall work | Wynic/Tuck Gallery, Toronto| gouache, graphic tape on wall | 2005 | photo credit: Peter MacCallum

Conundrum presented at the Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto included a series of paintings on paper installed in the Wynick/Tuck South Gallery and a site specific wall painting installation set in the gallery’s Project Room. The paintings seemed like fictitious topographies, capturing the movement and speed I imagines of information playfully spinning and whizzing through cyberspace. The images are constructed by combining different perspective views and elevations within the picture plane. The flat, coloured swatches not only refer to the use of digital reproduction, but also allude to the history of modern colour field painting. Again two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality compete for space in the picture plane, while I also contends with the more abstract concept of the fourth dimension, informed largely by the work of Russian Suprematist Kasimir Malevich and of Theo van Doesburgh.

 

Conundrum | east wall view | variable dimensions | gouache, graphic tape on wall | 2005 | photo credit: Peter MacCallum

 

Conundrum | east and south wall view | variable dimensions | gouache, graphic tape on wall | 2005 | photo credit: Peter MacCallum

 

Conundrum | south wall view | variable dimensions | gouache, graphic tape on wall | 2005 | photo credit: Peter MacCallum

 

Conundrum | south and west wall view | variable dimensions | gouache, graphic tape on wall | 2005 | photo credit: Peter MacCallum

 

Installation view of works on paper | Part of the exhibition Conundrum presented at the Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto|2005 | photo credit: Peter MacCallum

 

Boundless | gouache, graphic and corrector tape on paper | 57 x 76.5 cm |2005 | photo credit: Peter MacCallum

 

Database | gouache, graphic and corrector tape on paper | 57 x 76.5 cm | 2005 | photo credit: Peter MacCallum

 

Flight | gouache, graphic and corrector tape on paper | 57 x 76.5 cm | 2005 | photo credit: Peter MacCallum

 

Lost Contact | gouache, graphic and corrector tape on paper | 57 x 76.5 cm | 2005 | photo credit: Peter MacCallum

 

Open Machine | gouache, graphic and corrector tape on paper |34 x 43 cm | 2005 | photo credit: Peter MacCallum

 

Processors | gouache, graphic and corrector tape on paper | 57 x 76.5 cm | 2005 | photo credit: Peter MacCallum

 

Projections | gouache, graphic and corrector tape on paper | 57 x 76.5 cm | 2005 | photo credit: Peter MacCallum

 

Surveyed | gouache, graphic and corrector tape on paper | 57 x 76.5 cm | 2005 | photo credit: Peter MacCallum

 

Bouncing | gouache, graphic and corrector tape on paper | 57 x 76.5 cm | 2005 | photo credit: Peter MacCallum

 

Space Bridge | oil on canvas | 27 x 28 cm | 2005 | photo credit: Peter MacCallum

 

Space Probe | oil on canvas | 27 x 28 cm | 2005 | photo credit: Peter MacCallum

 

Space Station | oil on canvas | 27.5 x 27.5 cm | 2005 |photo credit: Peter MacCallum