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Gideon Tomaschoff was born in Israel and traveled extensively through Mexico, Cuba and Brazil before settling in Toronto. Educated in Beersheba as a mechanical engineer, he returned to school in Toronto to study painting at the Ontario College of Art in 1993.In his travels through Central and South America, Gideon saw buildings that had been battered and stained by the elements, and by human use over time. The stone and adobe walls of the colonial town of Oaxana, Mexico, for instance, are painted with different colours layer upon layer. As time wears away the surface of a particular area, bright colours become muted, blue reveals a patch of ochre, or red paint reveals the soft bricky pink beneath its surface. Inadvertant collages bloom on every street. It is in these rugged surfaces with their unintentional beauty, that Gideon finds the subject matter for his paintings. Rather than depicting a particular ancient facade with the specificity of a portrait, Gideon uses the wall as a metaphor, and one that has a breadth of subtlety and variation. He treats his canvases roughly, as the elements will beat against an old wall. Using unconventional materials, such as a builder's knife and spatulas, Tomaschoff pushes his surfaces "to express something in every square inch". He sees the walls he paints as witnesses to their external surroundings, acquiring the marks of time and experience. (excerpts from "Traceless" by Kate Regan) |
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Education 1993-96 Drawing and Painting, Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), Toronto, with honours. 1978-1982 B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Selected Solo Exhibitions 2011 Zwischenraume, Art Society of Monchengladbach, Germany 2010 Banias, Julie M Gallery, Tel Aviv 2009 Towards an Archaeology of Colour, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto 2008 New Paintings, Reece Galleries, NY 2007 New Paintings, Cohen Rese Gallery, San Francisco 2006 Passage of Time, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto 2005 Blocking View, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto 2004 Sojourns, Newzones Gallery, Calgary 2003 New Paintings, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto 1999 Traceless, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto 1998 Edward Day Gallery, Kingston 1997 To and From, Gallery 7, Toronto 1997 The Spanish Centre, Toronto 1996 Propeller Gallery, Toronto Selected Group Exhibitions 2005-10 Art Toronto (formerly TIAF), with Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto 2007 Canada in New York, Parca Biennale, 511 Gallery, NY 2006 Cohen Rese Gallery, San Francisco 2005 Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto 2004 Steam Whistle Brewery, Toronto 2002-04 Toronto International Art Fair (TIAF) 2002 Newzones Gallery, Calgary 2002 New Paintings, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto 2000 Newzones Gallery, Calgary 1999 Echoes of the past - Visions for the future, CNE, Toronto 1999 Screen 2, Propeller Gallery, Toronto 1999 Ward Nasse Gallery, NY 1999 Edward Day Gallery, Toronto and Kingston 1997 Third Rail Visual Arts Festival, Toronto 1997 Divine, Propeller Gallery, Toronto 1997 Gallery 7, Toronto 1997 1st Annual Toronto Indoor Artists Show, BCE Place, Toronto 1996 Gallery 7, Toronto 1996 Society of Canadian Artists Annual Exhibition, JB Aird Gallery, Toronto 1996 Propeller Gallery, Toronto 1996 Heart On, Parkdale Village Arts Collective, Toronto 1996 Third Rail Visual Arts Festival, Toronto 1995 Idee Gallery, Toronto 1995 Third Rail Visual Arts Festival, Toronto Selected Collections Gideon’s paintings are part of corporate, public and private collections in Canada, the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, and Israel including: AltaLink, Calgary Baycrest Hospital, Toronto Beit Halochem, Tel Aviv, Israel Charles Crug Winery, Napa Valley Dynatec, Toronto Elements, Toronto Rothschild Canada Inc., Toronto Rudson Valuation Group, Toronto Sherbanuk Metals Marketing, Toronto Simon, Turnbull & Martin, Washington Sun Life Financial, Toronto TD Canada Trust, Toronto Awards and Prizes 1998 Ontario Arts Council grant for emerging artists 1997 1st Annual Indoor Artists Show, Best oil painting 1996 OCAD, Drawing and Painting, honourable mention Biography Jewish Free press, Calgary, March 4, 2004, p.11: "Israeli artist enjoys first solo show in Calgary" Studio interview, 2003 Documentary film: "We are Samba" The Kingston Whig-Standard, February 3, 1998: Art Review Queen’s University Journal, February 1998: Art Review Toronto Life, October 1997: Preview Canadian Jewish News, October 14, 1997: "Decrepit buildings speak to Artist" NOW Magazine, Toronto, November 7, 1996: "Walls Witness Human Tides" Slate Gallery Guide, October 1997: Court – Way of The Sun selected as cover image |
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