Ivisited Erin Loree’s Toronto studio a couple months before her first commercial exhibition, Midnight Bloom, opened at Angell Gallery in January. Working from her new large studio, inherited from painter Kim Dorland, Loree had taken advantage of the extra space. Like a jade sapling that experiences rapid growth after replanting into a much larger pot, Loree’s canvases exploded in scope, scale, and vibrancy. Quadrupling the size of her previous work, Loree is still rooted in the same aesthetic she has been exploring throughout her young career, though she’s clearly stretching to achieve something new with abstraction. She renders high-key color from an expansive palette and imbues her canvases with muscular energy. Her largescale works are not easily dismissed; even in her poorly-lit, cluttered studio, where they lean against tables and hang haphazardly, Loree’s paintings share a unique organization of color and composition, and enchant. Installed properly on the generous walls of Angell Gallery, they dominate.
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