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3/12/2003

John Smialek

Gallery Neubacher, Toronto

obedience

Experiments in Master and Servant at Gallery Neubacher

Toronto (2 December 2003) ­ Gallery Neubacher announces today the opening of obedience featuring new work by artist, John Smialek. Using volatile, molten wax and encaustic techniques, Smialek seeks obedience from the uncontrollable, yielding works of absolute beauty and extreme intelligence.

Working primarily in monochromatic washes of color, Smialek's layered wax achieves depth, richness and intense luminosity. It all starts with molten wax at a dangerous 300 degrees, which grants defining urgency to the creation process. The fluid, uncontrollable nature of wax needs harnessing and from its malleable beginnings Smialek creates dissonance. He demands the wax obey through rigid control, harnessed in service of aesthetic purpose.

Obedience is achieved through strict planning and requisite discipline. Utilizing highly deliberate systems of graphing and mathematics, Smialek meticulously lays out his work in perfect '/8 scale. Often the layout is planned to a significant piece of music helping to establish the piece's tone.

Smialek's sleek minimalist works boldly capture transition from one state to the next tempered with deep desire to control the uncontrollable. It is the interplay between the essential quality of Smialek's material and the artist's need to impose purpose that results in an obedient near-collaboration between artist and material.

About the Artist:
One of the Toronto art scene's IT boys, Smialek's work is making waves. His large encaustic weaves grace the walls of Toronto's most stylish revived venue‹ The Carlu. With a commission in process for Toronto design firm II BY IV ‹ responsible for the hip new Diesel Fitness and the über-chic Spoke Club ‹ Smialek's work is setting the tone at Toronto's most stylish and desirable destinations.

About Gallery Neubacher: Gallery Neubacher promises to introduce and contribute to the development of emerging artists as well as showcase the talents of more established contemporary artists working in all media. Gallery Neubacher is located within a stone's throw of Toronto's celebrated Yorkville gallery district.

Opening Reception: 7-'0 p.m. Thursday, December 4th, 2003

For more information, please contact:
Manny Neubacher
Gallery Neubacher
Tel. (4'6) 963-5'38
Gallery Neubacher
81 St. Nicolas Street
Toronto

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