Not exact matches
Johnston, the heart of the exhibition, was a geographically sequestered yet ambitious painter whose
renderings of life on the homestead embody aspects of the Canadian canon and the
peculiar sensitivity of women artists who practiced outside of established norms.
The delicately
rendered lines and dots, which soon become an even - paced flow of number progressions in Détails, suggest a
peculiar channeling of American painter Agnes Martin (whose work Opalka may have never known) instead of Hanne Darboven or On Kawara, contemporaries of Opalka's with whom he's often compared.
The works are composed and
rendered in a manner that can be
peculiar, reflecting an intensity that denies an effortless first read and eschews the decorative in painting.