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Floating World Series: Tsunami 1, acrylic on wood, 4 x 4 feet, 2011

Floating World Series: Tsunami 2, acrylic on wood, 4 x 4 feet, 2011

 

 

Floating World

Gareth Bate Solo Exhibition "Floating World" opens at Loop Gallery, Toronto.

 

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Dates: June 25 – July 17, 2011

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 25, 2011, 2 -5 pm

Address: 1273 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON, M6J 1X8   (three doors west of Dovercourt)

Days: Wednesday - Saturday 12 p.m. - 5 p.m., Sunday 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. or by appointment

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Artist Statement

Loop Gallery presents Gareth Bate's "Floating World" series which is a response to the Japanese Tsunami. These paintings are a kind of Vanitas. Scenes of great beauty suddenly engulfed by devastation. Imagine standing in wonder at the view before you, just as a Tsunami washes it all away.

Gareth's recent work explores our ultimate scale and purpose in the universe. The landscapes and cosmos scenes are a metaphor for the beauty we experience. In the work the universe represents a sense of endless possibilities, and yet an existential terror of our final insignificance.

The tsunami represents total sublime horror. It is complete and utter devastation, indiscriminate and inescapable. The aerial video footage of the Japanese Tsunami was the most horrifying thing. It spread through entire cities and farmlands, demolishing and consuming everything in its path. All you have, including your life, can be swept away in an instant. Natural disasters are for Gareth, one of the things that make a belief in God impossible.

The title "Floating World" is obviously a reference to Japan, but it also represents the Earth itself. We are fragile and barely staying afloat. Although these paintings could be seen as bleak, it is impossible for an artwork to be nihilistic. Making art is inherently about creating meaning out of life.

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Cape Flora
Solo Show

Loop Gallery, Toronto

 

Cosmos and Anarchy: Part 2
Solo Show

Loop Gallery, Toronto

  The Red and the Black:
World of Threads Festival

Curating at The Gallery at The Gallery at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville.
  Solo Shows & Installations:
World of Threads Festival

Curating at The Gallery at The Gallery at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville.
   
             
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Past

           
             
    Something Still  
             

Cosmos and Anarchy
Solo Show

Loop Gallery, Toronto

 

Indicator
Toronto Nuit Blanche

Gareth Bate Art Projects
401 Richmond St. West.

 

Something Still
Group Show

Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto.

 

Responsive Space II
Group Show

Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto.

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Gareth Bate's 2012 Review: Yearly Update

Art practice, exhibitions, etc.

  Memento Mori:
World of Threads Festival

Curating at The Gallery at Sheridan Institute, Oakville.
  De rerum natura:
World of Threads Festival

Curating at Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, Oakville.
  Myth Making:
World of Threads Festival

Curating at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville.
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Variegated Threads:
World of Threads Festival

Curating at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville.

 

Outside Environmental Installations:
World of Threads Festival

Curating at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Oakville.

 

Protrusion:
World of Threads Festival

Curating at 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto.

 

Fibre Collage:
World of Threads Festival

Curating at Abbozzo Gallery, Oakville.

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"Where the Wild Things Aren't":
Group Show

Wall Space Gallery, Ottawa

  Come Up To My Room: "Jewel Net of Indra" Installation

Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
  "Floating World"
Solo Exhibition

Eleanor London Côte Saint-Luc Public Library, Montreal.
  "10 Up and Coming Canadian Fibre
Artists to Watch"

Article Published in
Fibre Focus Magazine
             
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Gareth Bate's 2011 Review: Yearly Update

Art practice, exhibitions, etc.

 

FROLIC: 401 Richmond Artists Open Studio

Gareth Bate Art Projects, 401 Richmond, St. W., Toronto

  "Weather"
Juried Exhibition

Pearson International Airport, Terminal 1, Toronto
 

"Floating World"
Solo Exhibition

Loop Gallery, Toronto

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Gareth Bate's 2010 Review: Yearly Update

Art practice, exhibitions, etc.

  "Scapes" Landscape
Group Exhibition

Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto
  "Deep Field"
Solo Exhibition

Gareth Bate Art Projects
Studio S-17, 401 Richmond St. W. Toronto
 

Gareth Bate Art Projects Official Launch

Gareth Bate Art Projects
Studio S-17, 401 Richmond St. W. Toronto

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401 Richmond Artists Open Studio

401 Richmond St. West, Toronto. Organized by Gareth Bate.
 

"Where They Are Now: OCADU Alumni Exhibition"

Art Square Gallery, Toronto

 

"Moments" Solo Painting Exhibition

Gareth Bate Art Projects, Toronto

  "Arts For Social & Environmental Justice Symposium"

Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto.
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For The Infinite, Book Cover.

Ryerson Poetry Chapbook, Toronto

 

Gareth Bate's 2009 Review: Yearly Update

Art practice, exhibitions, etc.

  Remounted: "Corps Intérieur" Set Design Installation

David Pressault Danse at the Monument National Theatre, Montreal.
  "Threads That Bind" in World of Threads Festival

The Gallery at Sheridan Instistute, Oakville.
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"Common Thread International Exhibition" at World of Threads Festival

B42 Gallery, Oakville.

 

"The Winter LamentPaintings," Solo Exhibition

Canadian Heritage Office Gallery, Toronto

 

"BeeCause," Fundraising Auction for the Canadian Bee Research Fund

The Arts Project London,London.

 

"Between Reality & Fantasy"

Katherine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto

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"Corps Intérieur"
Set Design Installation

David Pressault Danse at the Monument National Theatre, Montreal.

 

Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant

For Corps Intérieur Set Design Installation

 

"Hard Twist: 3rd Annual Juried Textile Art Exhibition"

The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto.

 

"Bigger, Bigger and More Desperate"

Deleon White Gallery, Toronto

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"Art 401: A group exhibition of 401 Richmond Artists"

The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto.

  "Penance & Devotion"
Solo Exhibition

Gallerie Glendon Gallery, York University, Toronto.
 

"Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition": Lament Paintings

Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto

 

"Lament": 401 Richmond Career Launcher Prize Solo Exhibition

Studio 260, 401 Richmond St. West, Toronto

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"Penance Performance"

Queen Street West, Toronto

 

"Plastic Paintings" Solo Exhibition.

Public Health Canada Office, Toronto

 

"Residual Landscapes" Photography Exhibition

Arcadia Gallery, Toronto

 

"Nuit Blanche: Ann Hamilton's Listening Choir," Performance

Varius Locations, Toronto

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"Central Tech Alumni Show"

The Library Gallery, Central Technical School, Toronto

 

"Nuit Blanche: In Memory of Brian Kipping"

Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto

 

Gareth Bate wins 2007
401 Richmond Career-Launcher Prize

Ontario College of Art & Design & Margaret Zeidler.

   
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