inbetween
Spaces take many forms, among them physical, psychological, negative, allegorical, and pictorial. Even these distinctions shift borders and meld. It is from these movements between past and present, form and function, the tactile and the remembered, that the geographies of the everyday emerge.
Think of the road trip, of the train station, of your parent’s living room. These are spaces that speak of the process of becoming, of the passage of time and the accumulation of events. These spaces have a life of their own: a life we give them, and give back to ourselves through them.
Some spaces speak through the items that we surround ourselves with, the objects that broadcast who we believe ourselves to be. Others contain residuals of those who have been there, hinted at by the objects and marks left behind. Still others are psychological spaces, mind sets, a sense of self created by constant comparison to what has come before and what may arrive.
By force of their character, spaces mediate our perceptions of the world around us. They become the sets within which we play out our lives.
The exhibit includes new works from the gallery’s collection, such as the recent acquisition of prominent New Media artist David Rokeby’s Plot Against Time (flurry #2) (2009), and a large scale drawing by Rick Pottruff. The gallery has brought in the work of Halifax based Yo Rodeo Poster Company, who will present a series of five 3D anaglyphic posters with 3D glasses provided by the gallery. Another work brought in for the exhibition is by Chris Dorosz, a San Francisco-based artist. His painting/sculpture is a three-dimensional recreation of an armoire made out of splotches of acrylic paint on hung monofilament.
Artists in exhibition: Paulette Phillips, James Lahey, Robert Sinclair, Lionel F. Stevenson, Kim Ondaatje, Jessica Korderas, Micah Lexier, Robert Harris, Yo Rodeo Poster Company, Jack Chambers, Chris Dorosz , Christopher Pratt, David Rokeby, Gary Neill Kennedy, Thaddeus Holownia, Nigel Roe, Lindee Climo, George S. Zimbel, Rick Pottruff, Richard Furlong, Stephen Waddell, and a film by the National Film Board of Canada entitled Ted Baryluk's Grocery.
inbetween is curated by Mireille Eagan.