NYAB Event - Brent McIntosh “Five New Paintings”

Brent McIntosh “Five New Paintings”

J. Cacciola Gallery

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J. Cacciola Gallery presents Five New Paintings, the second New York exhibition of new landscape paintings by Brent McIntosh. The five canvasses on display are a continuation of his lifelong enchantment with the effects of light on woodland scenery. The artist attempts to render in paint that which is not seen, but felt; he has found that the activity of piecing together a coherent image from his incongruent strokes captures some essence of the natural landscape itself. In Five New Paintings, McIntosh seeks to replicate the inner experience of natural beauty-shifting, vivid, and often exhilarating-that is common to us all.

McIntosh credits his grandfather, a commercial artist who painted oil landscapes in his free time, with germinating his love of painting. His dynamic paint application, a seemingly erratic performance with palette knives, belies the diligent focus required to fuse disparate elements and render the landscape legible. The result is an independent abstract composition that breathes through a representational framework. Observing the final work is a stimulating experience, one that is enriched as the complex relationships between marks, pigments and rhythms are revealed over time.

Brent McIntosh was born in 1959 in Montreal, Quebec. He earned both his BFA and his MFA at York University, Toronto in 1982 and in 1984. He works with commercial galleries in seven major cities throughout North America and Europe, and is represented in numerous corporate and private collections, including the Conference Board of Canada, the Bank of Montreal, TD Bank, and the Royal Bank of Canada. Public institutions, most notably the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Art Gallery of Alberta, also have acquired his paintings. McIntosh divides his time between his studios in Toronto and in the Niagara Escarpment near Blue Mountain, Ontario, where he takes the source photographs used in his works.