Sung Ja Kim & Jane LowBeer @ loop Gallery, 1273 Dundas St. W. January 30, 2010

January 30 – February 21, 2010
Reception: Saturday, January 30, 2010, 2-5 PM

loop Gallery is pleased to announce exhibitions by loop members Sung Ja Kim entitled Nest and Jane LowBeer entitled Light on Little Things.

Sung Ja Kim’s exhibition Nest communicates the idea of being sheltered from the inevitable storms of life through a growing spiritual awareness.

Nest incorporates multi-imaged works of specially constructed cocoons, which are metaphorically used to encapsulate the central dimensions of our life experiences. Another work in the exhibition uses nests as an artistic metaphor for being spiritually sheltered from the elemental forces of life that are completely beyond our control. Kim emphasizes borrowed imagery from the natural world by using materials in their natural states.

Sung Ja Kim Chisholm was born near Seoul, South Korea. She studied classical oriental visual art at Chu Gyo Art University in Seoul and worked as an animator. Following a number of successful group and solo exhibitions in Seoul, Sung Ja came to Canada. She is a graduate of the Fine Arts Program at the Ontario College of Art & Design. Nest is Sung Ja’s fifth exhibition at loop.

In Jane LowBeer’s Light on Little Things we see a glimpse of day-to-day living; the toothpaste tube, sink plug, push pins and nail brushes. These household items, ubiquitous and accessible are the models for her art work.

Light on Little Things consists of three components; each group with a different relationship to the same objects. In the monotype series “Hands and Objects”, each print depicts a single object held or touched by a hand. In the monotypes “Inventory” objects are all lined up but without reference to ground, cut loose with no shelf or tabletop to hold them. Finally, a series of small paintings of toothpaste tubes; the tubes bent and used, each in their own personnel setting in the manner of traditional still life. Their contortions can be seen as metaphors for human activity.

Jane LowBeer started her artistic career as a printmaker studying with Stanley Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris. She has exhibited in New York, Montreal and Europe. Her work can be seen at L' Espace Mexique in Montreal and Open Studio and Nikola Rukai Gallery in Toronto.

Please join the artists in celebrating the opening reception on Saturday, January 30th from 2-5 pm.

Gallery Hours are: Wed-Sat 1-5pm, Sun 1-4pm. Artist is in attendance on Sundays and for the reception.

Official Website: http://www.loopgallery.ca