Smarts

Moving into a new home or condo provides the perfect opportunity to heighten your visual sensibility as you

make choices about your space and where you will place belongings that say so much about who you are.

Turn to this column in every other issue for regular tips on original art for your home, and where to find

it in the GTA and surrounding area.

Kristine Moran at Angell Gallery

The exhibit currently on display is entitled

Trip-Wire, and features deliciously painted disaster

works by artist Kristine Moran. Though termed

those of an emerging artist, Moran's works are quite

sophisticated in regard to paint application and content.

Vehicles careen, crash and explode through panes of glass,

and into one another at high velocity on a fantastical,

digital backdrop. They are so delectably painted that one

cannot help but rubberneck. Thick squishes of paint are

caught mid-motion on fields of technological indifference.

Moran's sources of inspiration are varied - she mines sci-fi

movies, nanotechnology, her training in landscape

architecture at Ryerson University and her travels as an Air

Canada flight attendant to fuel her eviscerated vehicles.

Moran has just graduated from the Ontario College of Art

and Design and is the recipient of the Painting and

Drawing Medal 2004. She has exhibited in several group

shows and is clearly a force to reckon with.

The Angell Gallery has been showing works by seasoned,

as well as emerging artists for almost ten years. Gallery

Director Jamie Angell is perhaps one of the friendliest and

most fabulous people one could hope to encounter in a

gallery. Jamie often exhibits unconventional works that

both provoke and require discussion, so he is readily

available for any questions or comments that gallery-goers

may have.

Prices: $450 - $3,200. Exhibition runs only until June 12

but selections will be on site after the exhibit closes. Angell

Gallery, 890 Queen Street West. www.angellgallery.com