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Opening Reception Saturday, November 13, 2010 from 7‑10pm
On View November 13 – December 8, 2010

Corey Helford Gallery is pleased to present new works by Ohio artist Melissa Forman and UK illustrator and street artist Andy Council. Forman returns to Corey Helford Gallery for her first solo exhibition entitled “The Keepers of Creation”, which will be featured the main gallery space.

For “The Keepers of Creation”, Forman’s work takes a personal direction to unveil an enchanting visual sanctuary. Consisting of sixteen new works, the artist’s striking female portraiture is populated with symbolism, illustrating intimate habitats where various elements from the environment interact to protect and support each other.

Forman notes, “Each painting in this series represents a different aspect of the natural world and the importance of respecting and protecting it. Nothing is taken for granted in the world of the Protectors and the goddesses, wildlife, and natural world have developed a truly symbiotic relationship.”

Forman created each piece as an individual story. Humans serve as guardians of nature – watching over the wildlife, stars, water and forests. In one painting, Forman presents the story of the Goldfinch, a symbol of Christ. Surrounded by thorn bushes, the Goldfinch’s human protector is maternal and nurturing, similar to the Virgin Mary. Adopting attributes and characteristics from the bird, her subject’s hair is adorned with an array of delicate feathers and her clothing reflects the Goldfinch’s brilliant yellow coloring.

Special guest UK artist Andy Council will debut ten new works for his first exhibition with Corey Helford Gallery, entitled “Parallel Evolutions”. Based on his fascination with urban myths, beasts, dinosaurs and more, Council’s vibrant and playful imagery will delightfully dominate the loft space. Council adds, “Mankind’s creations often mirror those of natures. In my work manmade machines and cities are exaggerated and evolved further still into fantastical creatures and organic forms. This latest body of work has natural forms made up of common place human creations of the modern world that are often destructive to ourselves and the planet.”

Open to the public, the receptions for “The Keepers of Creation” and “Parallel Evolutions” will take place on Saturday, November 13 from 7 to 10pm, and the show will be on view until December 8, 2010.

Plastik Wrap returns to the Art arena bringing you the amazing illustrations by Jason Levesque, better known by his online moniker “Stuntkid”.

Jason is a self-taught illustrator living in Norfolk, Virginia ( in the US ).
His work regularly depicts “pin up” style girls with elements inspired by both the beautiful and ugly parts of the natural world.
Over the past few years his work has graced the covers and pages of magazines and p…eriodicals including Playstation Magazine, LA Weekly, Boston’s Weekly Dig, Coilhouse, and most recently, comic book covers for Marvel.
Since 2006 he has come out with 2 different books featuring all his sketches, photography and his illustration work. Most recently his work won an Eisner award for his cover illustration on “The Comic Book tattoo”.

Plastik Wrap and Jason are also collaborating on a limited edition t-shirt available only at this show.
Come and meet the Artist on August 5th at the opening reception.


Where:
Plastik Wrap boutique, 2235 Dundas st. West
What:
Opening reception with refreshments from 7pm till 11pm

Show runs through August 2010.

The Facebook Event

Stephan Balleux is currently at Miller Gallery in New York City since November 5.

Official presentation :

November 5 – December 23, 2009

Opening Reception: November 5, 6-8pm

New York, NY – October 2, 2009. Robert Miller Gallery is pleased to present Avec le temps – In time. Curated by Tim Goossens, this inter-generational exhibition will include nine contemporary artists who live and work in Belgium. A number of the artists included in this exhibition are either debuting in the United States or presenting installations created especially for the occasion.

The title of the exhibition is derived from a song by the late Leo Ferré, and the works included bear references to time: either in a formal time-based, performative way or in direct reference to history, nostalgia, memory, reproduction and a fading in time. Encompassing artists from both a newer generation and those that are internationally recognized, the exhibition aims to give an overview of the Belgian contemporary art scene of today. This flourishing scene capitalizes on the country’s central location and its long history of artistic support to create a productive art center.

Works in the exhibition include the installation Time’s Grave by the young Brussels-based artist Fabrice Samyn (b. 1982), which shows an oversized hand-blown hour glass. Huge amounts of sand, visible from the street, spill out over the floor of the gallery to welcome the visitor. Also on view are Samyn’s large scale photographs of various Old Masters paintings detailing the navels of Adam and Eve. As the first humans in the Christian tradition, they are not supposed to have these human marks of our ascendance. By blowing up these images, the viewer recognizes abstract forms that recall patterns of stars in the night sky, which – in their turn – recall the beginning of history, and humanity.

In the adjacent gallery, Pieter Vermeersch’s (b. 1973) ambitious installation combines an intervention on the window of the gallery with an installation of color gradation on the wall. The piece changes constantly under the influence of day light, thus challenging the veracity of the viewer’s optical perception and engaging the history of painterly reproductions of those perceptions and the distortions inherent to that tradition.

Dirk Braeckman’s (b. 1958) photographs, the majority of them in black and white, focus on abstract spaces, domestic interiors and other loci of the built environment. The subtle range of tone and the extraordinary matte surface of his gelatin silver prints give these images an enigmatic presence. Flatness and depth become difficult to discern, paradoxical.

A 16 mm projection by Els Opsomer (b. 1968) documents the activity in an Istanbul square during the annual two minute silence commemorating Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey. In this national ritual, which begins at 9:05 a.m. on November 10th – the exact moment of his death, time stands still. The entire country stops all activities, including all vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

Black-outs by the Dutch-born artist Willem Oorebeek (b. 1953) provide an example of his practice of covering found images with a layer of black ink, thus creating subtle surfaces wherein the viewer discovers traces of the original depictions.

The idea of what is real and what is fake is further questioned in the works of sculptor Koenraad Dedobbeleer (b. 1975). By synthesizing what appear to be found objects, the artist engages in a non-scientific study of possibilities.

Similar research is also apparent in the work of Edith Dekyndt (b. 1960): the video projection Martial M explores the phenomena of the magnetism of the Earth in a surprisingly poetic way, giving proof of how the artist’s conceptually and theoretically rigorous processes do not exclude a subjective answer.

Stephan Balleux’s (b. 1974) large scale oil paintings debate the reality of materiality. In these recent works the artist constantly questions the continuing role of painting in times of digital reproduction and virtual worlds.
For the opening event on November 5, the Belgian musician Tim Van Hamel (b. 1977, dEUS, Millionaire, Queens of the Stone Age) will perform in a debut collaboration with the visual artist Philip Metten (b. 1977). This performance, especially created for the exhibition, will use a sound costume with imbedded electronic pads and neon lights.