Trevor Kiernander Event Horizon: This Must be the Place

Exhibition: September 2 to 24, 2016
Vernissage: Thursday, September 1 at 6 pm

The McClure Gallery is honoured to feature the recent paintings of Trevor Kiernander.  Both this exhibition – Event Horizon: This Must Be the Place  – and the accompanying catalogue are undertaken in collaboration with Art Mûr.  Approximately 30 paintings, all completed this year, will be simultaneously on exhibit in both galleries.  They constitute a coherent and accomplished body of work, conjoining a painterly jouissance and expressive gesture with poised and deftly constructed visual compositions.  As the title suggests, they invite our sojourn.

The best of artists identify, in the pursuit of personal meaning, something much more collective.  Kiernander’s quest for place and belonging, both aesthetic and real, speaks fervently to our times, marked by an unrelenting sense of diaspora and dislocation.  Place, a sense of home, is the elusive antidote.  The scale of Kiernander’s paintings and the forms inhabiting them invite not just our eye, but our embodied selves. We feel corporeally the dark hovering shapes or flailing gestures push against or overlap all manner of portals, planes, sumptuous colour fields or the uneasy freefall of empty space.  Collapsing inwards they simultaneously reach off the edge of canvas to claim us.

Trevor Kiernander earned his MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2009.  While living in England from 2007 to 2014, he exhibited extensively throughout the UK, as well as participating in exhibitions and projects in Canada, U.S.A., Germany, Russia, and Morocco. Since returning to Montreal in 2014, Kiernander continues to work full-time in the studio.  His work is part of national, and international, private and public collections, including Loto-Quebec, Mouvement Desjardins, Conseil des arts de Montréal, and TD Bank Group.

Event Horizon: This Must Be the Place – Trevor Kiernander

64 pages (39 colour reproductions)
french / english
ISBN: 978 –1-926492 -10-0
McClure Gallery and Art Mûr, 2016
available: McClure Gallery
$ 24.95 + tx