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SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2000


VISUAL ARTS

THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Seizing moments from time’s flux


GALLERY GOING [by] GARY MICHAEL DAULT


Philip Iverson at the Lonsdale Gallery


The paintings of Fredericton-based artist Philip Iverson take a few seconds to kick in, but when they do, they grab you hard. If you like the wild, gestural thing in painting — and I do (and always have) — then Iverson is your man. One of them, anyhow. What won me over about his work, however, was not the flailing madness of his attack (apparently he puts on music and bobs, weaves, prances, floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee while he slathers on the pigment). It was the fact that, if you can stay with it long enough, you begin to see the emergence of the images that give the paintings their real meaning. Things come and go. Sometimes there are lakes, stands of pine forest, wooded hills, clouds. In the dizzying One Foot In/One Foot Out (a work on paper that is about 2½ by four metres of calculated lunacy), a searing hot comet thunders toward the moon, while in the foreground, floating in dark space, a wall-size Earth writhes with life — faces wobble forward like wraiths, flowers bloom in the wreckage of a teeming, close-packed civilization, and there are disembodied legs, one of which hangs out into space as if someone is pumping the planet along, the way you would a Scooter. Sometimes some of the little landscapes (Moist Afternoon, for example) go flat. But when Iverson is hot — as in, say, the ravishing Crane and the more-or-less perfect Day/Night — he’s very hot in deed.

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Until April 15. 410 Spadina Rd., Toronto.
416-487-8733.

 

   
 
 
 
 
 
     
   
                                       

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