Brian Kipping's work bears a superficial resemblance to photo-realsim but it is profoundly different. He paints mostly cityscapes, but the architecturally scaled scenes give off a sense of still life painting.This exhibition focuses on various aspects of Kipping's oeuvre: his little-known conceptual work is of particular interest as it has informed much of his later painting. Most striking in Kipping's work is a sense of continuity, a perception that what he does best is observe a close radius of the world that directly surrounds him. Kipping's environs, including the ever-present light sources in his paintings, becomes the character within his work.Essay by Steve Armstrong.

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Victor Coleman is the author of numerous books of poetry, starting with the 1964 publication of From Erik Satie's Notes to the Music, through CORRECTIONS (1985), LAPSED WASP (1994), and ICON TACT (2006). He was a founding editor of both Coach House Press (in 1965) and Coach House Books (in 1997) and has laboured as a film programmer, director of an artist run centre, and co-director and programmer for a musical performance centre, all in Toronto. He currently toils as a free-lance editor and a part-time cook at a downtown social service facility. Sometime in 2009 The University of California Press will release his (and Michael Boughn's) edit of Robert Duncan's The H.D. Book.

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