Ronald Bloore in Regina
Ronald Bloore in Regina
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Ronald Bloore No. 5 December 3, 2006–January 3, 2007 |
For the past four decades, noted Canadian painter Ronald Bloore has made works that explore the tension between the strict analytic rules of abstraction and the playful suggestiveness of semi-geometric figures. Scraping white oil paint directly onto untreated Masonite, Bloore is best known for creating textured monochromes that combine the austerity of minimalism with the emotive experimentation of automatic painting. Recently, however, Bloore has made a dramatic return to the use of colour in 14 paintings on view at the MacKenzie Art Gallery until January 27. Concentrating on the artist’s Dark Chocolate series of brightly coloured geometric figures on oil-stained Masonite, the “Fragments of Infinity” exhibition explores these images’ connection to lived experience and positions their abstracted forms as fragments of a human subject. Although it is tempting to equate Bloore’s renewed use of colour with a movement towards expressive figuration, these paintings in fact demonstrate the controlled exactitude of a seasoned minimalist whose creative innovations have influenced the trajectory of Canadian abstract painting. (3475 Albert St., Regina, SK.)
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