Julia Vandepolder: Truth in Beauty

May 18 – July 15, 2018

Curator: Irene MacCreadie

Truth in Beauty is a series of oil paintings with a restless blending of pure colours and chromatic greys and violets: pinks and purples swim in uneasy sense of chromatic discord. Critic Gary Evans continues, “The world we inhabit with Julia Vandepolder reminds us of the powers of both home and art… reminding us that in the right hands, paint remains a unique technology of human expression, unmatched in its ability to merge feeling with matter.”

Caledon based artist Julia Vandepolder's highly gestural large oil paintings are observational studies whose textural surfaces create tension between abstraction and representational elements. Her point of view is marked by an awareness of the environmental impact of human beings on the natural and domestic world, noted by the subtle transitions of colour, and its ability to transform.