Clint Roenisch Gallery

18 November 2011 — 3 January 2012

Dorian FitzGerald

Clint Roenisch is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by the Toronto artist Dorian FitzGerald (b. 1975), on view at 944 Queen St West. The exhibition brings together three large paintings of objects along with four small politically-charged landscapes. The title of the exhibition is in Old French and is taken from one of the exhibited works. The phrase, Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense, has been variously translated as “Shamed Be He Who Thinks Evil Of It” or “Evil Be To Him Who Evil Thinks”. Together the works offer a nuanced meditation on power and privilege.

FitzGerald’s paintings are constructed with acrylic paint and caulking in a slow, precise method that the artist has refined in his studio over several years. The process involves researching imagery, manipulating it with software, making a large-scale acetate transfer onto canvas and then using clear caulking to delineate areas of pure colour so that the image is built up slowly in a manner that resembles a kind of pointillism filtered into vector graphics. Both colour theory and the physical properties of paint, such as drying times and viscosity, are brought to bear in the setting of the final image.

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