Bon Echo

Daniel Hutchinson and Cecilia Nygren
April 16 - May 14, 2011
Opening reception: Saturday April 16, 7-9pm

Bon Echo brings together the work of two artists for whom landscape
is less a genre than a space to be performed, constructed, or navigated.
Cecilia Nygren's video, Tom, plays with the myth of a painter who
disappears in the very landscape he paints. Nygren situates the video's
androgyne character in compositions that alternate between painterly
and stark, natural and man-made. In his newest paintings, Daniel
Hutchinson extends his investigation of performance architectures to
include natural amphitheatres, such as rock formations and mountain
valleys. His paintings are elaborate constructions that begin in Google
Sketch-up, a computer program used to quickly diagram rectilinear
space but is ill-suited for rendering organic forms. Consequently, in
Hutchinson's paintings, coniferous trees assume a sharp angularity that
seem to echo the stylized, aspirational forms of Lawren Harris's
canonical Canadian paintings of the north.

Cecilia Nygren is a Stockholm-based artist. Her work was recently included
in Almost Romantic, I-20 Gallery, New York, and Girls! Girls! Girls -
Through the lens of the female gaze, La Centrale, Montreal. In the fall of
2010 she finished a one year long residency program at The Banff Centre,
and is currently completing her MFA at the Royal Institute of Art in
Stockholm. In her practice personal experiences and grand narratives are
revisited and blurred. Her videos reflect upon the roles of images and the
relationship between the picture and the depicted.

Daniel Hutchinson lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. He received his BFA
from Emily Carr Institute, and his MFA from NSCAD University. His work
has been shown nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the
Sydney College of Art, Australia; the Power Plant, Toronto; the Musée d'art
contemporain de Montréal; and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax.
Hutchinson was a finalist for the 2009 RBC Canadian Painting Competition.