This work is a selection from Gary Michael Dault’s current exhibition “PANDORA: Recent Paintings” showing at G+ GALLERIRS at INDEXG (through June 24, 2007).
“Unlike much contemporary abstract or, more particularly, non-representational painting, they do not harbour, like buried landmines, lurking intensities of critique—poised to explode in the midst of any guileless (ie unthinking) enjoyment they might initially appear to offer. They are, it probably unnecessary to add at this point, entirely without irony: their only ironic stance being that they are so irony–free.” Quoted from a note by Dault on his PANDORA series.
Gary Michael Dault is a Toronto-based writer, artist and art critic. Dault contributes a weekly visual arts review column (Gallery Going) to The Globe & Mail, and has written frequently for a number of Canadian and International magazines and journals including Canadian Art, Canadian Architect, Azure, Border Crossings, Saturday Night, Canadian Interiors, CV Photo, Photo Life, Take One, Parkett, Toronto Life, The Financial Post Magazine, The Toronto Star, Eye Weekly and ARTPOST.info.
As a practicing artist, Dault has shown his work (paintings on paper, for the most part) extensively at various galleries in Canada. In 2006 showed his “AN HOUR OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING: New 1-minute Paintings 0n Cereal Boxes” at G+ GALLERIES. His other exhibitions in different galleries including Page and Strange, Halifax (2007), Peak Gallery (2005), Wynick/Tuck Gallery (1996, 1998, 2004), Spin Gallery(2001), Revolver (2002), Gallery 1313 (2005), Pteros Gallery (2004) and at Transit Gallery, Hamilton (2005).
