Isabelle Hémard & Adrienne Trent @ Loop Gallery, Toronto February 7, 2009

Isabelle Hémard: hearts, drops & pebbles.... / Adrienne Trent: Burden of Histories

February 7 – March 1, 2009
Reception: Saturday, February 7, 2009, 2-5 PM
Gallery Hours: Wed - Sat 1-5pm, Sun 1-4pm

Loop Gallery is pleased to announce exhibitions by Loop Gallery members Isabelle Hémard entitled hearts, drops & pebbles... and Adrienne Trent entitled Burden of Histories.

Isabelle Hémard's exhibition hearts, drops & pebbles... is a series of new linocuts, painted mylar and stencil installations related to Hémard's life as a woman in her forties. Twelve years ago, an exhibition at Engramme, Quebec, trente ans déjà, told the story of Hémard's coming to the age of thirty - an age that had always seemed to her to be an important life-stage. Now in her forties, she is concerned with how to go forward and put aside fears of making decisions due to good and bad past life experiences. Decision-making would seem to come easier with age, but Hémard finds herself second-guessing everything because the life left to live is getting shorter and she wants to make the right choices in order to fully live life. hearts, drops & pebbles... is an exhibition about making choices in life, how they shape who you are and how people and society perceive you.

Isabelle Hémard a Toronto-based artist printmaker born in 1966 in France, has lived in Canada since the early nineties. She completed her MFA at Diplôme National Supérieur d'Arts Plastiques in France and has exhibited in Canada and internationally. Her work can be found in many private, public and corporate collections.

Adrienne Trent is drawn to the allure of the constructed/decomposing image, and its ability to invent believable narratives evoking personal contemplation for the viewers. With her use of objects that hark from a pre-plastic age, Trent presents them in their evolving state of decomposition. It's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo, to quote British artist Cornelia Parker.

Adrienne Trent is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art in the 80's. She has exhibited her art, nationally and internationally at numerous commercial, public galleries and artist-run spaces. She was co-founder of Republic and a member of the Red Head Gallery in the 1990's. Adrienne has curated a number of exhibitions in conjunction with Republic, Red Head, and Visual Arts Ontario. Her work is in the permanent collections at the Art Gallery of Ontario, University of Toronto Art Centre, CBC, DeLeon White Gallery, Robert Birch Gallery, and numerous private collections.

Please join the artists in celebrating the opening reception on Saturday February 7th from 2-5 pm.

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