Libby Hague & Rochelle Rubinstein @ loop Gallery, 1273 Dundas St. W., May 22 - June 13 May 22, 2010

Libby Hague SAFETY NET
Rochelle Rubinstein SHAFT
May 22 – June 13, 2010
Reception: Sunday, May 23, 2010, 2-4 PM
Question & Answer Session: Sunday, June 6, 3pm
at loop with Libby Hague and Rochelle Rubinstein. Moderated by Pat Macaulay,
Head, Visual Art, Harbourfront Centre, followed by Afternoon Tea at 402 College Street.

loop Gallery is pleased to announce exhibitions by loop members Libby Hague entitled SAFETY NET and Rochelle Rubinstein entitled SHAFT.

Pushing her ideas further, Libby Hague shows results from some of this year's experiments which have shifted her painting and prints into sculptural hybrids. This exhibition features The trans-atlantic shift of the Elliott plaid, a deconstructed riff on Hague's ancestral tartan with an interjected grove of birch trees, Safety net, and a selection of landscape paintings including Shotgun marriage, Abracadabra - and it did and Heaven does a backbend.

Libby Hague (Toronto, Ontario) is a visual artist who works primarily in print installation. She is featured in the British book, Installations & Experimental Printmaking by Alexia Tala and won the 2009 Open Studio National Printmaking Award. She is represented in many public collections including the Donovan Collection at U of T. www.libbyhague.com

Rochelle Rubinstein’s exhibition SHAFT expands upon Rubinstein’s interest in strong narrative themes conveyed within an abstract, formal language. These larger wood panels, printed, painted and carved with subtle detail in a bold manner, depict the shaft as a pit, a conduit, passageway, a well, but also as a barb, a blow, a wound, a dig. A series of columns, sheathed in printed, painted and quilted fabric and paper, serve as counterpoints to the wood panels. These are at once shafts as spears or staffs, or shafts of light, beams, radiance and darkness, life and death, etc.

Rochelle Rubinstein is a Toronto-based artist whose work has been exhibited in diverse venues worldwide and can be found in public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. As a community arts facilitator, her workshops and projects with groups such as battered women are based upon methods that are central to her own artistic practice.

SAFETY NET and SHAFT will be exhibited concurrently with STILL LIFE ON EARTH, a collaborative installation by Libby Hague and Rochelle Rubinstein, at Mon Ton Window at 402 College Street.

Please join the artists in celebrating the opening reception on Sunday, May 23rd from 2-4 pm.