Parisian Laundry opens its winter 2010 program with the highly anticipated solos of Canadian painter Rick Leong and sculptor David Armstrong Six, two artists interested in the monumental be it man made or natural. This same evening, the gallery plays host to the launch of Issue 5 of Hunter & Cook, a contemporary art magazine out of Toronto.



RICK LEONG
I AM NATURE

For his second solo at Parisian Laundry, Leong continues to observe and explore the unknown in nature. After a fall research sojourn in Banff, Alberta, Leong’s newest landscape paintings are dense with the fieldwork intensity of a botanist or naturalist. Often biomorphic or transformative, Leong’s amplified imagery includes trees, fungi, mosses and rocks that sometimes become skeletons of animals or graffiti like script. On view will be 10 new paintings in which the artist locates phenomena in the everyday sensorial experience of being in nature; entering woods, stumbling along a river’s edge, observing and magnifying the extraordinary worlds of lichen on the forest floor or the moon at night. Leong’s paintings depict a meeting place of micro worlds translated into macro-majestic pictorial fields.
Rick Leong is a Montreal based artist; he obtained his MFA from Concordia University. His work is found in the collections of The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Canada Council Art Bank, Senvest, ALDO Group, as well as privately.


BUNKER
DAVID ARMSTRONG SIX
THE DRY SALVAGES

For his first solo presentation at Parisian Laundry, Armstrong Six pays homage to the modernist monument. Working in situ and using the gallery as a process based laboratory, Armstrong Six has thoughtfully built a mapped man-made constructed space that houses a massive sculpture and has been slowly contaminating it with everyday objects such as vases, plexi-glass, mattress foam and paint. This anti-decorating accentuates the problematic of these iconic structures in public space such as, vandalism, time and weather while illuminating a personal narrative of the artist at work. Accompanying this major sculpture will be a selection of new spray-paint drawings as well as 2 smaller sculptures.
David Armstrong Six has exhibited widely, most recently at the musée d’art contemporain de Montréal as part of the inaugural Québec triennial "Nothing is Lost, Nothing is Created, Everything is Transformed", 2008.

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