See Barbara Cole's latest series at Art Toronto 2017
Photographer Barbara Cole’s latest series Figure Painting extends, with renewed subtlety, the artist’s long affair with her preferred mediums: water, light and the figure. Like a painter, Cole mixes and layers, blends and builds her compositions into ethereal portraits rich with rhythm and dimension. Inspired by the painting techniques cited in their names, these figures—Alla Prima, Underpainting, and others—are like beautiful ghosts: barely outlined by the dance of light across skin; so near the surface and somehow just out of reach. Cole’s camera lens—a tool which for the artist does not “capture” her created worlds but rather brings them into existence—plucks her ethereal subjects as though from a dream, granting them each a moment of stillness and mystery.
Figure Painting will be on preview at Art Toronto at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, October 27-30, 2017
The series will be officially released for Cole's upcoming solo exhibition, which opens November 4th, 2017. There will be an artist reception from 2-4pm at 350 Dundas St. West.