CYPHER
At
Winchester Galleries on Humboldt st.
April 6 – 24, 2010
Opening
Reception
Saturday, April 10, 2010
2
pm – 4 pm
Duncan Regehr in attendance.
The tale of a life begins before it is born...
CYPHER explores the theory that for each being there exists
a distinct image, an invisible matrix that is the essence
of that being...holding the keytoitslife’scalling.
DuncanRegehr
Duncan Regehr’s CYPHER works are based on
the philosophy that we each possess a design code, a blueprint
of ourselves, defining character, physical presence and individual
destiny. His richly resolved oil paintings reveal imaginary subjects
as they manifest into final template images. Figures emerge from
darkness as if arriving from quantum depths, galvanized and bathed
in golden light. Jewel-like colours and abstract shapes morph into
schematic patterns and human features. Solid pigments work beside
delicate grid-work to contrast translucent shading and fluidity,
giving a sense of both permanence and transience. These thought-
provoking works executed in Regehr’s distinctive style
of expressive surrealism, offer fresh credence to the theory
that everything has a form from which it is derived.