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2022

 DECEMBER 2022

GALLERY REPRESENTED 

 

 

 

NOVEMBER 2022

FLECK FINE ART EXHIBITION

Curated by Elaine Fleck

OPENING RECEPTION - THURSDAY NOV. 10, 7-9 PM

represented artists

TIM MERRETT   WILLIAM LAZOS

independent artists

JODI CHAPNIK   TIM R GROOT

MIRREN HINCHLEY   HEATHER LOCKHART

LIZ (ELA) SZYMCZAK   ARDEA THURSTON-SHAINE

 

 

 OCTOBER 2022

MEET THE ARTIST

Thursday October 13th

7-9 PM

SEPTEMBER 2022

NEW WORKS BY

MIKE RACHLIS & FRANCES FERDINANDS

           

 AUGUST INVENTORY SALE

&

NEW WORKS BY MIKE RACHLIS

JULY 2022

TODD LAWSON

SPIRITS    

When we remember the places we once visited we are often struck by a child like wonder wrapped in a feeling of nostalgia. Places we may visit again but never with the same sense of “new” as the first time. It is as if our memories are locked to our younger perceptions of ourselves and our lost past.   

We distort and individualize places, amplifying the good and slowly forgetting the bad. This series of works manifest those feelings through small, innocent child-like “Spirits” as they return to places where people once visited. For these initial paintings they wander New Orleans. A city I have a fond memory of visiting with my family, rich in history and personality and vibrant with the life of its people. TL

 

JUNE 2022

FLECK FINE ART EXHIBITION

Curated by Elaine Fleck

represented artists

JEANETTE HAYES   WILLIAM LAZOS   

TIM MERRETT   MIKE RACHLIS   BRANDON STEEN

independent artists

LILLIAN CHOW   C.M. DUFFY   CHRISSY NICKERSON

JULIE ROBB   DAVID RUGGERI   PATRICIA SALIK

DAVID RUGGERI, Batman


 MAY 2022

FLECK FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

represented exhibiting artists
GARY RAY RUSH   PENGKUEI BEN HUANG   
BILL HORNBOSTEL   KATHY KISSIK
independent exhibiting artists
RON PLANCHE   RICK BOGACZ

Gary Ray Rush, Nikkor 85mm Lens, Nikon FE Camera

 

 APRIL 2022 

MIKE RACHLIS

VANDALIZED HISTORY

  

KAI MCCALL

PORTRAITS IN STYLE

 

BRANDON STEEN

Coming off his successful show GHOST TOWN - 2020 in 20 PAINTINGS. In 2022 we will see contemporary realism painter Brandon Steen with his ambitious new series of nine paintings aptly named GORTA MÓR - The Irish Diaspora in Toronto.  Brandon Steen will focus on something close to his heart the Irish diaspora in Toronto, a community of which he counts himself to be a part of. Brandon's story began in Canada during the Great Famine or Gorta Mór in Irish when his paternal Great, Great, Great Grandparents John and Frances Steen sailed in 1850 from County Cavan.

During the pandemic the artist admits he took strength in not only his ancestors surviving Gorta Mór in Ireland but all of the Irish peoples who survived; “if they navigated those atrocities surely, I can stay away from Covid and keep me and my wife Janie alive”. Between May and October of 1847 some 38,560 Irish arrived by coffin ships to Toronto. With this series his hope is to create dialogue using a little of this historical Toronto narrative of the Irish through his paintings. Considering Toronto then was merely populated by just less than 19,000 people. That level of immigration is astounding to which Brandon says “that openness is what lies at the core of a Torontonian”.

In GORTA MÓR - The Irish Diaspora in Toronto, will see Brandon capture Toronto’s history in vivid detail, employing a natural crisp light to bring these paintings to life. As is true with all of his paintings this series will see a central animal as the protagonist. That animal will be the majestic Irish wolf from Irish Mythology. This beautiful wolf is the mythical Irish Queen named Morrígan and Brandon has painted her traversing Toronto through locations of great significance to the Irish in Toronto. Brandon says “I always imagine an animal as a central figure in my art but this is not just a wolf but an Irish Queen from the Tuatha Dé Danann people of ancient Ireland. She was also a shapeshifter, a protector of her people and bringer of death and victory. Something deeply relatable to those first Irish”.

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  FEBRUARY 2022

MIKE RACHLIS

WORKS ON PAPER

Rachlis is well known for his large-scale paintings which are regularly on display at the Elaine Fleck Gallery. He paints the human form, faces, animals, and landscapes. His painting style is a beautiful fusion of figurative work and gestural abstraction, with his graffiti like energetic markings, large brushstrokes, and paint splattering.

His paintings make tangible the organization of chaos, they are at once both loose and tight. His use of colour, brush work and marks are completely convincing. When you view a Mike Rachlis painting you are viewing the freedom and unbridled expression, of a young maestro.

This February 2022 the Elaine Fleck Gallery is featuring a new series of paintings by Mike Rachlis titled “WORKS ON PAPER”. 

 

JANUARY 2022

GALLERY REPRESENTED

View 25 masterpieces, by ten leading North American artists.

While themes and techniques vary greatly, Elaine Fleck has curated an exhibition that harmoniously integrates differing media. Be astonished and inspired by these maverick works and the soaring degree of technical expertise on display.
Gallerist and Curator Elaine Fleck represents North American artists selected for their unique themes and innovative, masterful skill; resulting in artworks that are truly contemporary masterpieces.