Heartlab: Noticed Growth Residency August 1 to 30, 2009 Exhibition September 1-30, 2009 This work represents a new chapter in our ongoing exploration of the relationship between text and image. We like to think of our work as installation narratives, with ourselves, the artists, as main characters. As our setting changes, so does our focus. Resonance has been created in response and in relation to the surrounding simplicity of the foothills and prairies. This simplicity has inspired us to playfully represent the essence of words as sound, and image
Read More »Project for Paper July 2008 Working with local forestry, history and land use issues and the very real stumps they leave in their wake, PROJECT FOR PAPER is an emerging public art installation that will culminate in an exhibition of David’s work at Oxygen on July 25th. Weekly Open Studio, Wednesdays, July 9 – 23, 7pm: Oxygen invites the public to drop by the Arts Centre, and talk with the artist about the project’s objectives and process, as well as get a look into the workings of the project itself. artist
Read More »Sepultura July 1 to August 31, 2007 Sepultura is an exploration of new natural materials originating from Japanese traditional use of bitter persimmon and utilizing the simulated mumified effect in reference to the phases of dying according to Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Using natural elements of air displacement and deliberate lighting the installation invites the viewer to become the living element among the light filled boats carrying the dead across the river styx. As the audience moves among the boats the tillers are set in motion and the boats bob on an
Read More »Tangible Shadows: Intersections January 20 to February 11, 2006 Invocations – Susan Andrews Grace Taking it in its deepest sense, the shadow is the invisible saurian tail that man still drags behind him. Carefully amputated, it becomes the healing serpent of the mysteries. C G Jung Tangible Shadows: Intersection, ceramic sculpture by Ian Johnston, invokes shadow and is suggestive of amputation as it swallows connections to both. Its mysterious intersections leave us gaping at ‘the shock of the new’ in Johnston’s search for beauty. Tangible Shadows: Intersection is the third
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