Brian Groombridge. Two Views of a Past, 1992. Silkscreen, Overall: 22.5 × 31 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario. Purchase, with funds from the Christian Claude Fund, 2024. © Brian Groombridge, courtesy Susan Hobbs Gallery. 2024/100
Galleries 140 & 141, Level 1
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Featuring a selection of new acquisitions and loans from the artist's studio, this exhibition presents Brian Groombridge’s practice as both sculptor and printmaker. Inspired by historical facts, space, data, and measurements, the Toronto artist's work is characterized by an economy of means and a reductive style. His interest in graphic devices, time, and perception are evident in works such as Two Views of a Past (1992), in which Groombridge juxtaposes a print of Albrecht Dürer’s Renaissance Adam and Eve with the stark geometry of Mies van der Rohe’s Lake Shore Drive Apartments in Chicago. The pairing of images carries an unusual synergy and the graph paper in the background references such systems of knowledge as mathematics and geometry.
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Brian Groombridge is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, and printmaking. Born in 1953 in Sarnia, Ontario, Groombridge attended Sheridan College in 1972, and the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University) from 1974 to 1978. His work has been presented across Canada and abroad at venues including Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven; Cold City Gallery, Toronto; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Plug In ICA, Winnipeg; and The Power Plant, Toronto. His work has been collected by various public institutions including Art Gallery of Hamilton; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; Museum London; Vancouver Art Gallery; and numerous private collections. He is represented by the Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto.
