Gordon Rayner : Peintures construites = Gordon Rayner : Constructed Paintings

Abstract

In tracing his career in the Toronto art community, Paikowsky points out Rayner's early interest in collage. The constructed paintings of this exhibition, however, are a departure from the large-scale wood constructions and abstract landscape paintings of that early work. These new pieces, produced from 1983 to 1985 are assemblages of found objects unified by layers of paint, of intimate scale and delicate colour. Hans Arp, Jasper Johns and especially Giorgio Morandi are seen as influences. Biographical notes