Figure Painting

Name: Figure Painting
Start: 2017-11-04T12:00:00.000Z
End: 2017-11-18T12:00:00.000Z
Location: Bau-Xi Gallery

Photographer Barbara Cole’s latest series Figure Painting extends, with renewed subtlety, the artist’s long affair with her preferred mediums: water, light and the figure. Cole uses her camera lens to bring her created worlds into existence rather than simply capture them.

Bau-Xi Gallery

Nov 4th – 18th 2017

Toronto, 350 Dundas St. West

, 'Catalyst, from Figure Painting ,' 2017, Bau-Xi Gallery — Barbara Cole
*Catalyst, from Figure Painting* , 2017
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, 'Migration, from Figure Painting ,' 2017, Bau-Xi Gallery — Barbara Cole
*Migration, from Figure Painting* , 2017
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, 'Etching, from Figure Painting,' 2017, Bau-Xi Gallery — Barbara Cole
*Etching, from Figure Painting*, 2017
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, 'Primer, from Figure Painting,' 2017, Bau-Xi Gallery — Barbara Cole
*Primer, from Figure Painting*, 2017
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, 'Dispersion, from Figure Painting,' 2017, Bau-Xi Gallery — Barbara Cole
*Dispersion, from Figure Painting*, 2017
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, 'Underpainting, from Figure Painting ,' 2017, Bau-Xi Gallery — Barbara Cole
*Underpainting, from Figure Painting* , 2017
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, 'Sprezzatura, from Figure Painting ,' 2017, Bau-Xi Gallery — Barbara Cole
*Sprezzatura, from Figure Painting* , 2017
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, 'Sfumato, from Figure Painting,' 2017, Bau-Xi Gallery — Barbara Cole
*Sfumato, from Figure Painting*, 2017
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, 'Chiaroscuro, from Figure Painting ,' 2017, Bau-Xi Gallery — Barbara Cole
*Chiaroscuro, from Figure Painting* , 2017
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, 'Counterpose, from Figure Painting,' 2017, Bau-Xi Gallery — Barbara Cole
*Counterpose, from Figure Painting*, 2017
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, 'Alla Prima, from Figure Painting ,' 2017, Bau-Xi Gallery — Barbara Cole
*Alla Prima, from Figure Painting* , 2017
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, 'Undertone, from Figure Painting ,' 2017, Bau-Xi Gallery — Barbara Cole
*Undertone, from Figure Painting* , 2017
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, 'Emulsion, from Figure Painting ,' 2017, Bau-Xi Gallery — Barbara Cole
*Emulsion, from Figure Painting* , 2017
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, 'Canvas, from Figure Painting ,' 2017, Bau-Xi Gallery — Barbara Cole
*Canvas, from Figure Painting* , 2017
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Press Release

Barbara Cole | Figure Painting
Bau-Xi Photo, 350 Dundas St West, Toronto
November 4 -18, 2017
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 4, 2:00 - 4:00pm. Artist in attendance.

Photographer Barbara Cole’s latest series Figure Painting extends, with renewed subtlety, the artist’s long affair with her preferred mediums: water, light and the figure. Like a painter, Cole mixes and layers, blends and builds her compositions into ethereal portraits rich with rhythm and dimension. Inspired by the painting techniques cited in their names, these figures—Alla Prima, Underpainting, and others—are like beautiful ghosts: barely outlined by the dance of light across skin; so near the surface and somehow just out of reach. Cole’s camera lens—a tool which for the artist does not “capture” her created worlds but rather brings them into existence—plucks her ethereal subjects as though from a dream, granting them each a moment of stillness and mystery.

Figure Painting

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