A B.C. landscape artist and a London artist are featured in two new exhibitions at a city art store.
Jeremy Herndl's exhibition Lights Through Trees, and London native Jason McLean's Boomerang Smile are on at Michael Gibson Gallery until July 28.
"We have been following his painting with interest for the past number of years and with these new evening inspired paintings, we decided to present a show," said Jennie Kraehling, associate director at the gallery.
What: Two new exhibitions, Jeremy Herndl's Lights Through Trees and London native Jason McLean's Boomerang Smile, presented by Michael Gibson Gallery.
Herndl graduated from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2011 and earned a bachelor of fine arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1996.
His work is in the permanent collections of the Surrey Art Museum, University of Victoria, Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
McLean, who is living in New York City, is well-known in the London area. Boomerang Smile is a "highly detailed suite of new drawings that reflect on McLean's life living in the U.S., his obsession with real estate and his life as father and a husband," according to the gallery's promotion materials.
This is his third solo exhibition at the gallery.
"Though he has lived in Brooklyn for five years, many of the drawings reference landmarks, businesses and the geography of London, Ont.," said Kraehling.
McLean graduated from H.B. Beal secondary school's art program and also graduated from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 1997.
He has exhibited national and internationally since 1994 with shows at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Loyal Gallery in Malmo, Sweden, and at Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica, Calif.
McLean was chosen by Maclean's magazine as one of the top 10 artists to watch in Canada in 2004. In 2013, McLean was the only Canadian artist selected by Canadian Art magazine to collaborate with Smart Canada to paint on a Smart car that travelled across Canada.
McLean also has collaborated on t-shirt designs with designer Jeremy Laing, was commissioned to paint a mural inside the Drake Hotel on Queen Street, Toronto, and co-runs the Canadian Pez Museum with his sons Felix and Henry in the basement of their home.
His work is included in major collections throughout North America including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery, BMO Collection, TD Bank and the Royal Bank of Canada.