EXHIBITION REMINDER: Don Russell and Amir Shingray, SNOW - Nov 27/08 to Jan 18/09

On November 27, 2008, a two-person show called Snow opens, with gallery artists, Don Russell and Amir Shingray. Each has previously had solo shows at the gallery, Russell's Elements of Memory (Fall 2006) and Shingray's Khartoum (Winter 2007).

Russell came to Guelph from a Newfoundland childhood that included camping in snow drifts as high as himself while Shingray came to Toronto from eastern Sudan where snow was almost beyond imagination. Each has studied the (surprisingly modest) place of snowscapes in Canadian painting. For Snow, each has produced work that will forge new paths in connecting art, winter, and what it means to be Canadian.

Russell's work for the show will be an entirely new series of black and white encaustic painting on paper, while Shingray, also with a markedly new series, works in acrylic and ink on canvas.

Don Russell and Amir Shingray present "Snow" exhibition November 27 to January 17

From November 27 to December 14, and then January 7-17, Don Russell and Amir Shingray join forces in a two-person show called "Snow." Don Russell came to Ontario from a childhood in Newfoundland that included camping in snow drifts as high as he was while Amir Shingray came to Ontario from eastern Sudan where snow was almost beyond imagination. Each in his own way has studied the (surprisingly modest) place of snowscapes in both the history of Canadian painting and in contemporary painting, and learned from innovators from Franz Johnson to Jean-Paul Lemieux to David Milne to Peter Doig. For "Snow", each in his own way is producing work for the show that is guaranteed to forge new paths in connecting art and the white north of Canadian identity.

Above is Don Russell's largescale painting, "First Snow," while below is Amir Shingray's 30 x 30 inch "North of Here."