AN ARTIST FOR ALL SEASONS

by Virginia Munroe

Allen Shugar is a Toronto-based artist and the Curator of Urban Gallery.

‘Shifting Light’, the marquee oil-on-canvas work for Allen’s recent exhibition at Urban Gallery.
Urban Gallery
Monday – Friday Noon to 5 p.m.
Thursday Noon to 8 p.m.
Saturday 1 PM to 5 p.m.
400 Queen Street East
urbangallery.ca.

“Colour, light, the cycles of nature (so extreme in our climate), the beauty of the human form: these are the subjects that inspire my paintings. Naturalistic representation has never much interested me. I take, rather, a transformative approach that seeks to capture a purely subjective experience, a state of mind, an evanescent thought. In this respect my work owes as much to musical and literary influences as it does to visual stimuli. My aim is to suggest the extraordinary that lies just beneath the surface of the ordinary.”