CITIES

at 2260 Oak Bay Avenue

December 3 – 19, 2009

 Preview
Saturday, December 5, 2009   10 am – 5:30 pm
(work subject to prior sale)

Opening Reception
Sunday, December 6, 2009   1 pm – 5 pm

JOHN HARTMAN WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE
Elizabeth Ely, harpist;   Karel Roessingh, pianist

John Hartman was born in 1950 in Midland, Ontario, and studied Fine Art at McMaster University under George Wallace. In the 1980’s with the emergence of Neo-Expressionism, Hartman began to experiment with works that combined figurative, narrative and landscape traditions, presented from an aerial viewpoint.

In Hartman’s new CITIES series the carbuncular accumulation of houses and towers and cranes and docks and roads that we call cities are presented as their own natural formation. Man is busy in these paintings, and though we no longer see him, is as integral to the landscape as the now dwarfed mountains, seas and lakes are. The landscape is still front and centre but it has changed its appearance and in its extraordinary purpose, ignores Nature as Canadians used to think of it

Hartman works between his studio and home near Lafontaine and his island on Georgian Bay in Ontario, and frequently travels across North America and Europe sketching, photographing and documenting landscapes, cities and their stories and histories for his paintings

From CITIES, John Hartman

Click here to view the exhibit-v.ca video of John Hartman