Wynick/Tuck Gallery
401 Richmond St. W., Ground Floor
Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3A8
For Immediate release, October 13, 2006.
Nicole Collins and Kim Adams
Opening: Saturday October 14, 2006
Artists present 2-5 pm
Exhibitions continue through November 11
Nicole Collins
stroke for stroke
North and South Gallery
Nicole Collins, One 16.07 2006, Nicole Collins, Shifting Loci 06 2006,
oil, pigment and wax on canvas18” X 18”oil, pigment and wax on canvas 36” X 36”
We are pleased to announce Stroke for Stroke, an exhibition of new paintings by Nicole Collins, to be presented by the Wynick/Tuck Gallery, opening on Saturday, October 14, 2006 from 2-5 pm.
In this recent body of work Nicole Collins pushes the boundaries of painting by asking which is the original? The answer is: all of them.
In one.16 Collins has simultaneously generated 16 paintings using a predetermined palette and complex composition, shifting relative scale through 4 sets of 4 sizes. On the surface they look strangely similar, but closer investigation and comparison reveals the inevitable variations that occur when an object is handmade. The use of hot wax amplifies the brushmark as evidence of a moment in the studio captured and held in time. The resulting paintings are remarkably vibrant and the mark making is as pure as it gets.
Referring to the performative condition implied in this work Collins states: “I find a very satisfying relationship to music, in that the individual paintings are like distinct performances of the same song by the same singer; recognition is strong but each rendition contains its own peculiarities.”
In Shifting Loci, a smaller, but no less bold group of paintings, which we are exhibiting in our South Gallery, Collins has focused on similar issues to those in the paintings of One.16. Working with the horizontal and also with a premeditated palette but shifting the colour location, each paintings has it’s own distinctive identity.
Concurrent with the opening will be the launch of Collins’ website:
Breaking News: An excellent review, Exhibit A: Different Strokes, of the Collins exhibition by Gary Michael Dault can be found in the Globe and Mail today. Also online at
Kim Adams
Recent Work
Project Room
Kim Adams, Mini Ride 1983, Photograph of Mixed media InstallationKim Adams, Sleepbarrow I 2006, upholstery and
wheelbarrow 48” X 42” X 52”
We are pleased to announce an exhibition of recent work by Kim Adams in the Project Room, including: Sleepbarrow II and Maquette for Mini-Ride. As always Adams harnesses his and our imaginations, melding the everyday; the hardware store, the wrecking yard, the model maker’s store, to create substantial and thought provoking works.
Adams’ newest model Maquette for Mini-Ride, a 1/16 scale model die cast of brass and zinc was created referring to Adams’ 1983 work Mini-Ride: Victoria BC, (pictured above) Sleepbarrow II, is an expansion and development ofwork currently on view at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Sleepbarrow II consists of an upholstered wheelbarrow and it looks and fits like a chair.
Watch out for more “chairs” by Adams this November at our booth, #203, at this years’ edition of the TIAF.
Kim Adams’ interactive work, Bugs and Dragons, continues at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Adams conceived Bugs and Dragons, an installation of two interrelated components: the Dragon Wagon, a mobile cart that generates art activities for AGO visitors throughout the galleries; and wrecking yard elements that become a “painting” on the wall with a seating area containing Adams-designed “chairs” that invite us to take a moment to view our surroundings.
Other Gallery Artists News and Projects:
Nicole Collins paintings are also opening this week-end, Sunday, October 15 in the major exhibition, Pulse: Film & Painting After the Image
at the MountSaint VincentUniversityArtGallery, Halifax. The exhibition also includes three other Wynick/Tuck Gallery artists; Cora Cluett, Angela Leach and Monica Tap.
The collective La Femme 100 Têtes, in collaboration with MountSaint VincentUniversityArtGallery, presents Pulse: Film and Painting After the Image, co-curated by Ingrid Jenkner and Barbara Sternberg, in consultation with Gerda Cammaer. The opening reception is at 2-5pm with informal talk by Barbara Sternberg, filmmaker and member of La Femme 100 Têtes curatorial collective.
Pulse brings experimental film into dialogue with contemporary abstract painting by presenting the two art forms adjacent to one another in the same gallery space. The films were selected for their tendencies to dismantle the stability of the representational image, or to dispense with it altogether. The paintings match these tendencies by emphasizing optical vibration, repetition, rhythm, layering and blurring of figure-ground distinctions. While traditional narrative cinema and representational painting offer fixed images, the selections in Pulse bring out the counterimage (and afterimage) of process. The prevailing aesthetic is pulsatile–similar to that of blinking neon signs or the strobe effects of video games. This optically active environment emphasizes the shared concerns of artists who work in time-based and space-based media.
Filmmakers: Christina Battle, Vincent Grenier, Emmanuel LeFrant, Rose Lowder, Fred Worden
Painters: Cora Cluett, Stephen Fisher, Nicole Collins, Angela Leach, Monica Tap, Shirley Wiitasalo
An illustrated catalogue with essays by Jenkner and Sternberg provides a complete document of the project. Also see
The work of Jaclyn Shoub is currently on exhibit in The Painted Photograph at the National Gallery of Canada. Originally curated by and scheduled for the CanadianMuseum of Contemporary Photography, where it has been installed for several months, the exhibition has been relocated due to construction and repairs. The show runs from October 21 to November 19. The works of the featured artists combine photography and painting. Jaclyn comments on modern life by using painterly processes that intervene with photographs of urban subject matter.
The Toronto International Art Fair, TIAF, opens on November 9 and among others we are featuring new work by Kelly Mark, Carol Wainio, Monica Tap, Dyan Marie, Angela Leachand Kim Adams. More on TIAF soon.
We are pleased to announce that Kelly Mark’s major neon work Hold That Thought is now installed in the main hallway at 401 Richmond St. W, directly outside Wynick/Tuck Gallery.
For more information:
Karen Danis, 416-504-8716, x21