As an event sponsor for ELEVEN IN MOTION: Abstract Expressions In Animation, Videoscope provided and installed matching monitors with stands and DVD players for an unusual art show.

This innovative exhibit paired 11 animation artists with members of the Painters Eleven Group, who established Canada’s international reputation for modern abstract painting in the 1950’s. It was shown in November at the Christopher Cutts Gallery, a fine art gallery in west Toronto.

“This programme is a personal and original response to the work of the Painters Eleven by talented and accomplished animation artists from across Canada,” says Madi Piller in her Curatorial Statement, explaining that the short animated works “draw from, respond to, or are inspired by works created by the Painters Eleven.”

The animations range from two to five minutes in length.
Many techniques were used: paint-on-glass animation, cut outs, pixilation, digital processing/compositing, Flash software.
The eleven original paintings were each hung beside an LCD display, showing the related animation.

The eleven works are:
Inner View by Patrick Jenkins (inspired by Kazuo Nakamura's Structure Two Horizon) shown left and below.
The Yarwood Trail by Richard Reeves (inspired by Walter Yarwood)
The Importance of Hortense by Lisa Morse (inspired by Hortense Gordon)
Old Ink by Rick Raxlen (inspired by Harold Town)
Stroke by Ellen Besen (inspired by Tom Hodgson)
The End is the Beginning by Craig Marshall (inspired by Ray Mead)
William’s Creatures by Pasquale LaMontagna (inspired by William Ronald)
As Above so Below by Élise Simard (inspired by Alexandra Luke)
Traffic Flow II by Nick Fox-Gieg (inspired by Oscar Cahén)
Playtime by Steven Woloshen (inspired by Jock MacDonald)
Strips by Félix Dufour-Laperrière (inspired by Jack Bush).

The show was organized by the Toronto Animated Image Society www.tais.ca

Our thanks to TAIS for providing the photos of the exhibit.
For more information, follow the links below.
Christopher Cutts Gallery, www.cuttsgallery.com
Painters 11 Group www.painters-eleven.com

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(LEFT: Nine of the animation artists parallel a photo of the Painters 11.
ABOVE: Canadian postage stamp by “Painter 11,” Jack Bush.)