Robert Game & Debra Tate Sears | Double Solo Show
Opening Reception Friday, September 5, 2025
Through September 27, 2025
T: 416.587.0057 or Email: info@galleryhouse.ca
Beneath Stillness brings together two artists whose practices explore the fragile relationship between humanity and the environment, navigating themes of memory, material, and ecological transformation. Through two distinct visual languages—one rooted in the ancient technique of egg tempera, the other in layered abstraction with his tree photos and found imagery—Debra Tate Sears and Robert Game examine how we interact with and impact the natural world.
Sears’ work invites us into a meditative, almost sacred engagement with the environment. Her use of egg tempera—a demanding, centuries-old medium made from hand-mixed pigments and egg yolk—embodies a return to the elemental. Her paintings reflect moments of stillness, observation, and care, capturing the quiet resilience of nature amidst an ever-shifting landscape. Through translucent layering and luminous surfaces, Sears offers not only an homage to traditional craft, but also a gentle reminder of the value of slowness, sustainability, and presence in an increasingly accelerated world.
In contrast, Game’s mixed media paintings explore contemporary tensions between man and nature through gestural abstraction and recurring motifs of industry, decay, and human impact. His recent series delves into the aftermath of mining, the devastation of once-vital landscapes, and the disruption of sea-based life—echoing current concerns around resource extraction, climate instability, and ecological collapse. Through deliberate mark-making and intuitive construction, Game renders scenes that are at once picturesque and disquieting, revealing what lies beneath the surface of human progress with a hope of striking an ecological balance.
Together, the works in Beneath Stillness hold space for reflection and reckoning. They challenge viewers to consider both the quiet beauty and the profound consequences embedded in the way we move through the world. Whether through reverence or critique, Sears and Game offer parallel investigations into how memory, material, and environment shape our collective experience in the age of climate change.