Fire and Form: A Dialogue at the Crunode
Starts: Sunday July 19, 2026
Meet The Artists: Sunday July 19, 2026 between 1 - 4pm
Where: Atelier Ironwood, 1425 Lakeshore Rd. NOTL (2nd fl.)
Featuring Artists: Patricia Gagic, Jordan Moody
Ends: Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026
Fire and Form: A Dialogue at the Crunode inaugurates the Lemniscate Prauscate Art Movement, founded in 2026 by Patricia Karen Gagic. This exhibition brings into dialogue two distinct yet interconnected practices, each representing a different point within a shared conceptual framework.
At its core is the lemniscate—the figure-eight form symbolizing continuous passage through a central crossing, or crunode, where transformation occurs. Within this philosophy, all creative work is understood as a prauscate: a movement through challenge and uncertainty that arrives at clarity without losing its originating intensity.
The exhibition positions “fire” as the generative impulse—intuitive, emotional, and unformed—and “form” as its resolution: the structure that emerges from within. These are not opposing forces, but interdependent states within the act of creation.
Patricia Karen Gagic’s work, developed over five decades, maps the geometry of consciousness through precise, structured compositions grounded in her philosophy of Complex Simplicity. In contrast, Jordan Moody’s atmospheric abstractions explore perception in its unfolding state—expansive, sensory, and unresolved. Mentored by Gagic, Moody extends this dialogue into a new, generative register.
Together, their works create a dynamic exchange across the crunode, where structure and openness, resolution and emergence, continuously inform one another. As the inaugural exhibition of the Movement, Fire and Form proposes a model of artistic practice as a continual act of transformation—where the original impulse is not diminished, but fully realized through form.
As the first exhibition to formally articulate the Lemniscate Prauscate Art Movement, Fire and Form establishes a language for understanding artistic production as both philosophical inquiry and lived experience. It proposes that all authentic creative acts involve a crossing: a passage through the intensity of making that yields not reduction, but refinement. What emerges is not the extinguishing of the initial impulse, but its transformation into something more exact, more resonant, and more fully realized.
In this way, Fire and Form is not only an exhibition, but a proposition: that the act of creation is itself a continuous loop of becoming, where fire and form are not separate states, but successive recognitions within the same enduring movement.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Patricia Gagic is an internationally active contemporary artist whose practice spans painting, photography, writing, and expanded cultural production, grounded in a sustained inquiry into form, perception, consciousness, and human connection.
I have been painting the in-between spaces for fifty years. The place where one thing becomes another. The silence between the notes. The crossing point where both loops meet.
I did not know, for most of those years, that I was painting a theorem. I know now. The shape is the lemniscate. The geometry is consciousness. And the fire that moves through it — through grief, through love, through loss, through the unsurvivable and out the other side — is what I have always been trying to hold.
Jordan Moody shows me what the fire looks like before it finds its form. And that is one of the most generous things another artist can do.
Hamilton-based artist Jordan Moody creates atmospheric paintings that exist at the intersection of memory, emotion, music, and the natural world. Working across painting, photography, and music, Moody has developed a multidisciplinary practice that transforms sensory experience into immersive visual environments
My work is found and formed at the intersection of what I see and how I feel. Visually and viscerally, I explore the expression of two worlds at once, my inner world and the natural world around me. Holding and expressing the tension of opposites includes where I am and where I want to be, who I was and who I am, who I am and who I want to be etc. The list goes on, truth be told, I believe it never ends. My work is my way of finding harmony between these perspectives.
My paintings reflect how I have been a life-long musician and my work is where I explore the delicate dance between what is spoken and what is held back. Due to the gift of synesthesia, my own senses continue to inform how to bring my inner world into outer form. This leads me to ask myself certain questions again and again. How can I paint the pictures I see and feel so vividly in my mind when I play guitar? How can I alchemize the creative instinct into something that feels good and invites me to look at it again and again? How can I tell a story in one frame? My hope is that every piece I create answers those questions with simplicity, beauty, and a sense of calm as I bring my inner world outside.
