New Palette Paintings

Woman With Purse Acrylic on canvas, 12 in. sq.








Keystone Acrylic on canvas, 16 in. sq.








Hawk Acrylic on canvas, 12 in. sq.








Painting with African motif Acrylic on canvas, 12 in. sq.







Three Figures Acrylic on canvas, 16 inches square.

Museum & Gallery Links

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gallery 1313
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
Engine Gallery
Tate Gallery
Museum of Modern Art
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art Amsterdam
Albright-Knox
The Prado
Musee Marmottan
The Louvre
National Gallery, London
National Gallery, Washington
National Gallery of Canada
The British Museum
Avisen-Avk
Giorgio Morandi Online

YesNo

The graphics project below can be made to fit any size wall or building, interior or exterior. It can be made as a paste-up, painting, low relief or mosaic. Contact the artist's agent if you are interested at sales@dangoorevitch.com



The modular units comprising the piece can be made as coarse or fine as is appropriate for the wall in question.







Below is the black and white version approved by Bing Thom and Arthur Erikson in 1974 for the hoarding around the Vancouver Courthouse construction site (Unfortunately, due to a change in electoral fortunes the next year, the project was shelved):



Below is a YESNO in grey scale and, below that, one in lighter greys.





Below is version that tends toward grey with a green-brown oscillation:



Another version leans toward a rosy tinged chromatic grey.



With the rose removed:



After reading James Joyce's Ulysses, I changed the YesNo to NesYo, in honour of Leopold Bloom's response to Bella, when she asks if she's seen him before at her brothel. I decided that Bloom's "Nes. Yo." was even an even better expression of ambivalence than my original idea.




A Nes wall in two stages in its progress. I regret not taking pictures of earlier stages, particularly one that would have shown the intricate aluminum studding.

Exhibitions

Solo Shows

2000 Gallery 1313
1996 Newman Gallery
1995 The Rustic Cosmo Café
1994 The Beauty Box
1993 MTCVA
1993 The Overful
1992 The Overful
1991 Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
1986 Kits House Gallery

Group Exhibitions

2008 8 Artists for 2008; John B. Aird Gallery
2007 Art Dialogue
2006 IN Abstracto
2005 Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre, Toronto
2004 Toronto International Art Fair (Engine Gallery booth)
2004 Engine Gallery
2004 IN abstracto
2003 IN abstracto
2000 Gallery 1313
1999 Gallery 1313
1998 Gallery 1313
1997 Gallery 1313
1996 Art Gallery of Ontario Rental & Sales
1995 Art Gallery of Ontario Rental & Sales
1995 Third Rail
1994 Art Gallery of Ontario Rental & Sales
1994 Third Rail
1993 Attic Gallery
1993 Third Rail
1992 Art Dialogue Gallery
1992 Attic Gallery
1991 Art Dialogue Gallery
1982 Surrey Art Gallery; Four Painters
1979 Vancouver Jewish Community Centre
1979 Ridge Theatre Lobby

Corporate Collections

Merril Lynch, Toronto; Microsystems Management, Toronto; Gilmour Associates, Toronto; PSI Fluid Power, Calgary; The Beauty Box, Toronto; Jewish Family & Child Services, Toronto; Gino Gaiga Contractors, Vancouver; White Glove Cleaners, Vancouver.

Reviews & Publications


Art:

The Globe & Mail (Feb 8, 1991)


Poetry:

1999 Parchment
1998 Parchment


Chapbooks:

1996 Israel Poems
1995 Lost & Found
1994 Open The Box

Some small drawings

These small drawings (5"x7") are $650 each.



Coffeebeans








Party








The Dressing of Persephone








Water from the well








Wedding








The Artichoke ●








Bowlers, Boxers, Acrobats and Dancers ●







Garden #3








Garden #2 ●








La Dolce Vita ●








Falling/Family unit 3" x 3"









"Calves of iron joy" 3.5" x 3"









Honeymoon 3.5" x 3









The Exile









The Fall

Black Drawings

The black drawings were begun in Vancouver in the 1980s. They continue, when in the mood to discover in shadow, to this day. Please excuse the glare: black graphite surfaces are hard to shoot and besides, a certain amount of glare tells us something about their surfaces.





The Onions 27" x 38" graphite on Clearprint,














Night Scene 11" x 8½" 1988













Night Scene













The Gathering Storm













The Dressing of Persephone













Aviad













Trophonious













Trophonious 2













Laurie D's Dilemma













Peacock













Woman

CURRICULUM VITAE

• 1951 Born in lull 'tween winter storms with twin bro' Dave.


• 1954 Want to write, ask Mom for letter to copy, meaning postal article. She misunderstands, gives me two letters: the word is.


• 1956 With Dad at river bank see animal tracks. Imitate with stick in sand. Seeing levelled sand heart sunk. Looking up saw someone splashed red and yellow paint on bridge's buttress. Decide to paint when grown.


• 1957 School daze. Perceived numbers as cartoons of kids. Parents deeply worried, explain symbols.


• 1958 Sister Trudy born. Father dies. Deeply impressed by idea of God. Decide to become God when grown. Or invisible anyway. Played with mud and finger paint.


• 1963 Exit Hebrew school, into the secular. Dance, romance. Mother dies. Childhood ends.


• 1964 Anglican Boarding school, Victoria, B.C.. Painful. Begin to write poetry, a lifelong love.


• 1969 Meet future wife, pass love-lettered spring holding breath, followed by summer perfect to boredom. Stumble 'to basement: hand and Eye Spy paint, hand finds bru--...a piece of p--...a jar of w--. ...fell into painting.


• 1971 Married in Calgary. Cross-Canada camping trip.


• 1973 Studied at Vancouver School of Art painting department (to '77).


• 1974 Travelled to London, Paris, Amsterdam and their museums.


• 1976 Co-founded the Vancouver School of Art Student Society and the Helen Pitt Gallery.


• 1977 D-i-v-o-r-c-e.


• 1979 First solo show of paintings: Kits House Gallery, Vancouver. Also Ridge Theatre Gallery.


• 1982 Exhibited at Surrey Art Gallery (Surrey, B.C.): "Four Painters". First trip to New York city to see art. What that’s about? in front of Pollock. Then I see the couple barbequeing a man, a woman by the snow fence, ho-humming the autumn day. Right. Got it. Wow. Picasso: wall to wall human speaking flesh.


• 1984 Begin Limbo paintings. Write “Status Quo.” a broken-language poem.
  
• 1985 Begin ongoing series of drawings, Screen Paintings.


• 1986 Write a 45 page poem, Sweeney’s Barrels, in protest of Canada's last barrel factory’s expropriation.


• 1987 Black Drawings.


• 1989 "Smear" drawings.


• 1990 Move to Toronto. Begin “Roberta Drive” poems.


• 1991 Solo exhibition: Paintings & Drawings, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto. Reviewed in Globe & Mail. Exhibited at Art Dialogue Gallery. Begin to compose songs.


• 1992 Solo Show: The Overful. Also exhibited at Art Dialogue Gallery, the Attic Gallery. Began Blackboard Paintings.


• 1993 Solo show: The Overful. Also showed at Art Dialogue Gallery, Attic Gallery, M.T.C.V.A..Began Ravine paintings. Beging “Atlantic Avenue” poems.


• 1994 Solo Show: The Beauty Box. Also showed at the Art Gallery of Ontario Art Rental & Sales Gallery, Third Rail. Begin Open The Box.


• 1995 Solo Show: The Roastery. Also exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario Art Rental & Sales Gallery, Third Rail. Finish Open The Box.


• 1996 Solo show: Newman Gallery. Also exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario Art Rental & Sales Gallery.


• 1997 Solo shows: Liberty Street Café, The Rustic Cosmo Café. Also exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario Art Rental & Sales Gallery. Continue work on drawings.


• 1998 Group show: Gallery 1313. Also exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario Art Rental & Sales Gallery. Continue work on drawings. Join choir, sing baritone.


• 1999 Group show: Gallery 1313


• 2000 Solo show Gallery 1313. The idea begins to occur to me that our ability to experience life is limited by the ways in which we can represent it.
  
• 2001 Bad year. Kidney failure, dialysis begins, thyroidectomy, start book called 11 Eaton South, a dialysis journal.


• 2002 Drafted by tenor section. Continue work on 11 Eaton South, begin Perseus Poems.


• 2003 Begin 8’x16’ painting. Heart attack. Up singing in 10 days. Resume work on painting.


• 2004 Begin to arrange music.


• 2005 Difficult year, then received a kidney transplant on my 54th birthday.


• 2006 Spent 2006 and part of 2007 rethinking painting. Whole new range of color and color relations. Become uninterested in composition and only in the relation of the relations of colors.


• 2008 Group show: 8 Artists for 2008 at John B. Aird Gallery where I show The Long Crossing for the first time.