Stephen Andrews POV

Posted: August 13, 2015 in galleries
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Stephen Andrews POV
an exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario

Stephen Andrews is a Toronto artist whose career began in photography and the exhibit now on at the AGO does include a few excellent 8×10 photographs.  The main part of the exhibit though are approximately 20 (mostly large) paintings of his.

A room in an art gallery with white walls and three large paintings on it. A woman is taking a picture of one of them with a camera. The paintings consist of large rectangles
  below: ‘X-men at Union’, 2013, oil on canvas
Construction workers at Union Station, Toronto

rtwork picture of two construction workers wearing orange and yellow safety vests as they walk into a building that is being renovated

below: ‘After Before/After After’ oil on wood panels
The two paintings on the wall were based on landscapes by J.M.W. Turner that depicted scenes before and after the flood described in the bible (or before and after chaos).  Andrews has painted his with dots in only four colours, yellow, magenta, cyan and black

An open book on a pedestal, a large picture of a painting on each page. Two paintings on a wall directly behind the book. The paintings on the wall are replicas of the ones in the book .

below: detail from ‘Crossing’, 2011, oil on canvas

close up of a painting of a large number of railway crossing signs.

below: close up of part of ‘Entrance/Exit’, 2014, oil on canvas

close up of a slightly abstract painting of a person about to go through a revolving door in a glass wall

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