Douglas Udell Gallery Vancouver is proud to present new work by Vancouver artist John Capitano.

Ordinary Matters is an artist`s exploration of everyday surroundings. John Capitano uses a very particular system of chance to select colors that will determine and restrict his paintings. “I throw darts at a dartboard bull’s eye.  If I miss the bull’s eye, I end up hitting a numbered wedge instead - each corresponding to a particular color. Then I paint with its predetermined hue. This arbitrary system carried out in a playful spirit, results in surprising color combinations”. Fascinated and intrigued by the tension between abstract expression and representational imagery, John Capitano work is focusing on mundane, everyday life objects: “everything from the kitchen sink and its usual forms of disarray to the formidable state of the bathroom”. The Ordinary Matters exhibition will also include new paintings that extend into abstract urban surroundings.