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Winter 2017 Group Exhibition
Winter 2017 Group Exhibition This is our newly installed Winter 2017 Group Exhibition, featuring some of our favorites in the Elan collection.
Past Exhibition – Autumn Almanac Exhibition
Autumn Almanac September 30th – November 4th, 2017 A diverse and provocative look at contemporary painting from five different and distinctive aesthetics. Stephanie Aitken, Neil Campbell, Allyson Clay, Landon Mackenzie, David MacWilliam ELAN FINE ART presents Autumn Almanac, a nod to The Kinks 1967 smash hit. A diverse and provocative look at contemporary painting …
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Joseph Kyle
“There is a point where beauty meets truth, where wisdom meets delight, where heaven meets earth, it is to this vision of the sublime that my painting aspires.”
– Joseph Kyle
Syn-optics is Joseph Kyle’s contribution to abstraction. Unique in concept, Syn-optics refers to “seeing as a whole”. It is the ability to synthesize shape and colour on an equal footing and not as one reflecting or enhancing another”. Kyle’s work forces the viewer to perceive an entire painting as an interactive whole rather than an assembly of individual compositional devices. Like Op Art, both vibrating colours and pulsating patterns are characteristic of this genre. With Syn-optics, however, Kyle moved into new and original territory.