la Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario presents
jinny yu | i am painting
Sudbury, October 10th 2013 — La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario welcomes a new exhibition from artist Jinny Yu. I am painting brings together an example of her work with aluminum, a video project and an in situ piece that will transform one of the gallery’s walls.
Jinny Yu’s work investigates the very nature of painting. By exploring the possibilities inherent to the uncommon medium of aluminum as canvas and its pictorial space’s naturally occurring sense of depth, she encourages reflection with bold brushstrokes on reflective material.
There is no effort to hide the artist’s particular movements; the marks left by her work proudly betray the movements of the brush across the surface. Rather, she seeks to reveal and underline the properties of her favoured material. The pictorial space (or illusional space) available in aluminum circumvents one of painters’ traditional objectives: to create the illusion of depth and a pictorial space by the measured application of paint(s) to a particular surface. Consequently, the eye can switch between exploring the reflective material’s vanishing point and noticing how the artist’s brushstrokes testify to the creative moment.
Today, Jinny Yu’s continued analysis of the art of painting has her probing the very walls on which the works are displayed. Creating an in situ piece, she puts her bold brushstrokes to work covering an entire wall with paint and reveals the wall’s innards through a porthole made with surgical cuts.
The act of painting itself is primordial to her approach. The ambiguous nature of the word painting, designating both the verb to paint and the artefact produced by that verb, reveal an underlying theme to Yu’s work: painting is painting.
Born in Korea and based in Canada and Italy, Jinny Yu's work has been shown widely, including exhibitions in Brooklyn, New York, Venice, Kyoto and London. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec. She is represented by Galerie Art Mur in Montreal and General Hardware Contemporary in Toronto.
This exhibition is sponsored by Donald P. Kuyek Barrister + Solicitor and Little Montreal. Our season sponsors are Quality Inn, Laurentian University and 50 Carleton. Our media partners are Le Voyageur newspaper, Le Loup 98.9 FM La Voix du Nord and ICI Radio-Canada. Many thanks to our funders: the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Heritage Canada and the City of Greater Sudbury.
opening reception
thursday 17 OC at 5pm
exhibition
17 OC to 16 NO 2013
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