Susan Hobbs

Photos:

Installation view of solo exhibition at Susan Hobbs, 2008

Untitled, 2008, painted aluminum, wood, installed: 117 x 40 x 40 cm

Untitled, 2008, painted aluminum, 95 x 70 x 28 cm

Marco Polo, 2008, edition of 4, silkscreen on Seikosa Mitsumata paper, 65 x 43 cm

52 degrees 02 minutes 31 seconds N, 02 degrees 02 minutes 44 seconds E, 2005, painted aluminum, painted base, installed: 105.4 x 71 x 71 cm

Untitled, 1997, enamel on paper
dimensions specific to site

Brian Groombridge

Groombridge’s sculpture is characterised by a deceptive simplicity of form and an economy of materials. His work makes evocative use of structural and poetic elements, including aspects of communication, perception, construction and measurement. His work is full of references to the transient nature of things, to balance, and to reciprocity. These references are visual cues to something else and implore the question: what is that point at which things intersect?

1953
Born in Sarnia, Ontario
1972
Sheridan College, Oakville
1974-78
Ontario College of Art, Toronto
1977
O.C.A. New York Off-Campus Study Program

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010
Convenience Gallery, Toronto
2008
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
2005
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
2002
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
2000
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
1997
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
1995
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
1994
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
1993
Galerie Lallouz et Watterson, Montréal
1992
Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1991
WW3, Toronto
Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1990
The Points of Contact are the Points of Gesture, Cold City Gallery, Toronto
New Model for Measurement, Art Metropole, Toronto
Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto
1988
Cold City Gallery, Toronto
Comets Tell of Great Distances Travelled, Massey-Ferguson Buildings, Toronto
1987
Eye Level Gallery, Halifax
The Power Plant, Toronto
1986
Continuum, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
1985
Glendon Gallery, York University, Toronto
1984
Evidence of the River, YYZ, Toronto
1983
A System of Five Moving Parts, Optica, Montréal
1981
Portions; Traces, Forest City Gallery, London
Constructing Parallels, Mercer Union, Toronto
1979
Architectural Targets, YYZ, Toronto

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011
The Most She Weighed/The Least She Weighed, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
2010
Site Exercises, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
2008
Momentum, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
2007
Me and Them, Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon
Reading the Picture, Confederation Centre for the Arts, Charlottetown
2005
The Cold City Years, The Power Plant, Toronto
2004
Objective Information, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
2001
the way up and the way down are one and the same, An exhibition in a home, Toronto
2000
2000 and Counting, Part ii, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1998
The Word in Contemporary Canadian Art, Art Gallery of North York, Toronto
1997
Site/Work, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Off/Set: Artists Interpreting the Printing Process, Harbourfront, Toronto
1996
Wild Life, Koffler Gallery, Toronto
Vital Signs, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Type Culture, Design Exchange, Toronto
Ten, Cold City Gallery/Mercer Union, Toronto
1995
Art Metropole: Twenty Years, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
1993
Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto
1991
Vittu Pane Puu Pallo, Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1990
Numbering, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton
1989
Cold City Artists – The Vancouver Exchange, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
1988
Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1987
Sans Demarcation, Visual Arts Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie
Artscape, Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington
1986
Patio Lawn Slope, Scarborough College, University of Toronto, Toronto
1985
Territories, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax
1984
The New City of Sculpture, Mercer Union, Toronto
1982
Monumenta, A Space, Toronto
1981
Displacements, Glendon Gallery, York University, Toronto
1980
Locations, Mercer Union, Toronto
The Sculptural Image, Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto
1978
Drawings, A Space, Toronto
3D in 2D, Gallery 76, Toronto

Could this be a radio? Maybe just for today

by Gary Michael Dault (review)

The Globe and Mail, 8 November 2008

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Brian Groombridge

by Charles Reeve and Siobhan Roberts (monograph)

Toronto: Susan Hobbs Gallery, 2008

Brian Groombridge at Susan Hobbs

by Gary Michael Dault (review)

The Globe and Mail, 5 November 2005

Brian Groombridge, Shirley Wiitasalo at Susan Hobbs

by Gary Michael Dault (review)

The Globe and Mail, 9 December 2000

Brian Groombridge: Susan Hobbs Gallery

by Reid Diamond (review)

Lola, Summer 1998

Toronto Sculpture Garden

by Barbara Fischer and Ihor Holubizky (book)

Toronto: Toronto Sculpture Garden, 1998

shape shifters

by Ihor Holubizky (book)

Hamilton: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1997

Wild Life

by John Massier (exhibition catalogue)

Toronto: The Koffler Gallery, 1996

Sculpture/Toronto

by June Ardiel (book)

Toronto: Leidra Books, 1994

Decalog: YYZ 1979-1989

by Barbara Fischer (book)

Toronto: YYZ, 1992

Uitersten bijeen in Apollohuis

by René Van Peer (review)

Eindhoven Dagblad, 5 November 1991

Brian Groombridge

by Ihor Holubizky (article)

C Magazine, Spring 1991

Vittu Pane Puu Pallo

by Noel Harding, Paul Panhuysen and Joanne Pasila

Eindhoven, The Netherlands:
Het Apollohuis, 1991

Brian Groombridge: Toronto Sculpture Garden

by Linda Genereux (Article)

Artforum, October 1990

Within One Action There are Many Gestures

by Christopher Dewdney

Toronto: Toronto Sculpture Garden, 1990

Poetic Polarities

by John Bentley Mays (article)

The Globe and Mail, 18 July 1990

Focus: Brian Groombridge

by Earl Miller (article)

Canadian Art, Summer 1989

Numbering

by Ihor Holubizky

Hamilton: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1989

Brian Groombridge

by Ihor Holubizky. (exhibition catalogue)

Toronto: The Power Plant, 1988

Sans Demarcation

by Michael Burtch (exhibition catalogue)

Toronto: Visual Arts Ontario, 1987

Continuum: Brian Groombridge

by Jeanne Randolph (exhibition catalogue)

Lethbridge: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1986

Sculpture that knows its place

Robert Everett-Green (article)

The Globe and Mail, 30 August 1986

Patio Lawn Slope

by Susan Schelle and Lora Carney (exhibition catalogue)

Toronto: Scarborough College, University of Toronto, 1986

Territories

by Kit Lort (review)

Arts Atlantic, Spring 1986

Territories

by Jerry McGarth

Vanguard, February-March 1986

Territories

by Bruce Grenville and Stephen Horne

Halifax: Eye Level Gallery, 1985

Quiet Reciprocity

by Gregory Salzman (article)

C Magazine, 6 Summer 1985

Brian Groombridge: Sculpture

by Anne West and Laurie Milner (exhibition brochure)

Toronto: Glendon Gallery, 1985

A Journey Around the New City of Sculpture

by Marshall Webb (review)

Canadian Art, Winter 1984-85

The New City of Sculpture

by Ian Carr-Harris (review)

Parachute, Winter 1984-85

The New City of Sculpture

by Bruce Grenville (review)

C Magazine, 3 Fall 1984

Brian Groombridge

by Jerry McGarth (article)

Vanguard, September 1984

Brian Groombridge at YYZ

by John Bentley Mays (review)

The Globe and Mail, 26 April 1984

Upstairs and Down: Installations

by Wayne Johnston (review)

University of Western Ontario Gazette, 15 September 1981

Parallel Lines and Red Tape

by John Bentley Mays (review)

The Globe and Mail, 22 August 1981

Out of Site Works

by Martha Fleming (review)

Fuse Magazine, July 1980

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