Alex Cameron

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Alex Cameron is a celebrated Canadian painter whose explorative relationship with colour and texture has defined his work for over 40 years. Immersed in the arts from a young age, Cameron was introduced to New York City’s Abstract Expressionist movement in the 1960s and witnessed concurrent and equally powerful experiments in abstraction back home in Toronto. The artist’s celebration of pure pigment has since characterized his canvases. His thick, painterly application lends lively sculptural form to both energetic landscapes and non-representational studies. Not only bold and bright, Cameron’s colours are unconventional and built up in linear “ropes” of paint, often applied straight from the tube, making his surfaces hum with life. His subjects—the varied landscapes of Canada observed during his regular coast-to-coast travels—are not merely captured or recorded in paint, but rather honoured for their complexity; they are organic and magical environments that live and grow.