CYPHER

    796 Humboldt Street

    April 6 – 24, 2010

    Opening Reception
    Saturday, April 10, 2010   2 pm – 4 pm
    Duncan Regehr in attendance.

    A catalogue is available for this exhibition

    The tale of a life begins before it is born…

    CYPHER explores the theory that for each being there exists a distinct image, an invisible matrix…the essence of that being…holding the key to its life’s calling.   ~Duncan Regehr

    Duncan Regehr’s CYPHER works are based on the philosophy that we each possess a design code, a blueprint of ourselves, defining character, physical presence and individual destiny.  His richly resolved oil paintings reveal imaginary subjects as they manifest into final template images.  Figures emerge from darkness as if arriving from quantum depths, galvanized and bathed in golden light.  Jewel-like colours and abstract shapes morph into schematic patterns and human features.  Solid pigments work beside delicate grid-work to contrast translucent shading and fluidity, giving a sense of both permanence and transience.  These thought-provoking works executed in Regehr’s distinctive style of expressive surrealism, offer fresh credence to the theory that everything has a form from which it is derived.

     

                                                           

     

 

Duncan Regehr