Light Shifts- a 24-year Survey

At Winchester Galleries Modern
758 Humboldt Street (beside the Marriott)

September 10 – October 1, 2011

Opening Reception
Saturday, September 10, 2011 2 pm – 4 pm

3:00 p.m. Tzenka Dianova, internationally acclaimed pianist, will perform music by Philip Glass.

Harry Stanbridge Artist Statement

Stanbridge’s painting practice explores the proposition that all visual experience is substantively spiritual, reflective of spiritual philosophy generally, and the dynamics of naturally conflicting forces.

Author, Roald Nasgaard, in his compendium ‘Abstract Painting in Canada’, writes, “Stanbridge’s commitment to questions of body and spirit positions him as something of a bridge between BC’s mystical modernist past and its retina-effect obsessive present, stripping away the former’s reliance on literary symbols and staging his spiritual enquiries, like the latter, not as readings but as existential events. “ (p.382.)

The painting, “Night Light (after Goya)”, from the History Series, is a prime example of this practice where the underpainted graphic imagery subvert and enhance the veils of overpainting. As in the spiritual quest, so in the paintings intent, where seemingly opposites find a unitive coherence, not so much as a question of either/or …but both in equipoise.