MONTREAL.- In Opaque Architectures , Toronto-based artist Jaime Angelopoulos assembles an exhibition of works on paper and sculptures that gesture towards the artist’s personal narratives through processes of abstraction. Angelopoulos draws from a number of sources including mythology, pop culture, current events and our contemporary social climate. These references are simultaneously concealed and disclosed by extension of the artist’s subjectivity.

While the impulse towards abstraction produces a shrouding distance between viewer and subjective meaning, the indication of gestural marks and the touch of the body effectively collapse this distance. Such an erratic arrangement is nevertheless productive. For in only suggesting her motivations as producer, Angelopoulos allows her artwork to function as a site for the identifications and projections of others. Thus her practice complexly approaches the workings of empathy, touching on the affective territories of spectators and evoking emotions ranging from melancholy to joy.

Angelopoulos received her MFA from York University (Toronto, 2010), and BFA from NSCAD University (Halifax, 2005). Her exhibitions and work have been cited in Elle Canada , Le Devoir , the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail. Angelopoulos was awarded the Hazelton Sculpture Prize in 2012, in addition to participating in artist residencies at KulttuuriKauppila Art Center (Ii, Finland), the Meadows School of the Arts (Dallas) and the Banff Centre for the Arts. Angelopoulos has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Parisian Laundry, Stride Gallery (Calgary), Gallery YYZ (Toronto) and Cambridge Galleries (Cambridge). She has been featured in group exhibitions in Canada and internationally, including Material Girls at the Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina) and The Ruin in the Refuge is the Hole at Galleria 5 (Oulu, Finland). Her works are part of the collections of The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norton Rose, ALDO Group, York University, Bank of Montreal, the Claridge Collection as well as numerous private collections.