Opening Reception Monday July 19th at 5:30pm
1891 Granville Street
Billboards + Glass Walls
Laura Newman
Artist in Residence
Laura
Newman’s abstract paintings address the representation of space and
often take particular places as points of departure in order to explore
visual issues. Inspired by looking at a building site, this exhibition
investigates modernist architecture, color field painting, billboards,
glass doors, skies and highways. Hard-edged geometrical shapes combine
with gestural marks to evoke a stream of consciousness urban skyline.
Laura
Newman is a painter who lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is an
assistant professor at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, where she
teaches painting and drawing.
In recent years she has presented
solo exhibitions of her work at Randolph-Macon College; Bellwether
Gallery (reviewed in Artforum magazine, summer 2002), and Tenri
Gallery. An article on her paintings by Judith Linhares appeared in the
Spring 2002 issue of Bomb magazine. Her work has been included in group
exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the New Museum, and the
Brooklyn Museum, among other places.
Newman has received
fellowships from the American Academy in Rome, the John Simon Guggenheim
Foundation, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and
the New York Foundation for the Arts. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio,
and educated at Cooper Union, the California Institute of the Arts, and
the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. The artist acknowledges
support from Vassar College.
Artist’s Presentation: Wednesday 21 July at 12:00 noon
Opening Reception Monday July 26th at 5:30pm
1891 Granville Streetnot-me / Doodles
Kelly Markovich & Alistair Rance
MFA exhibitor & Alumni exhibitor
Kelly Markovich states about her photographic project:
not-me
is a term used to describe the transitional object. In human childhood
development, a transitional object is usually a physical object, which
takes the place of the mother-child bond. These things often serve a
soothing function for young children and are normal and significant
developmental phenomena. An interest in objects and the relationships
we share with them has led me to expand on the ideas surrounding the
first transition, more specifically, the separation from the mother and
the advent of the self/other reality.
Alistar Rance writes about his paintings:
These
paintings, or large-scale Doodles, are comprised of two main elements;
one element being the repetitive use of the rectangular form and the
other element being the navigating of an aesthetic experience through
the process of creating a composition on canvas. These doodles are about
building a composition using varying scales of a single form – the
rectangle - and the process that is involved in creating them. I
interconnect the rectangles, joining one to the next, creating a chain
of events. It is the in the chain of events that the image has its
essence, the chain of events that build on each other, react to one
another, with no negation of previous actions, continuing on through the
formal space of the canvas. These paintings represent a process that
has resulted in an image of a seemingly haphazard pattern of a chain
that has been struggling to find its course though an unsure journey:
essentially a doodle.
Infinitas
Kiano Zamani
undergraduate exhibitor
Kiano
states, “With sacred geometry paintings, I wish to bring the viewers
closer to themselves. I am also presenting video and poetry work that
examines social justice and human conditioning.”
Closing Reception Tuesday August 3, 5:30 - 7pm
1107 Marginal Rd.
New Work
Lauren Schaffer
Artist in Residence
Visiting Artist Lauren Schaffer states:
My
recent work, Translating the World for Isabella (2009-) consists of
images that are ruminations on the formation of consciousness,
extrapolated from concepts of early cognitive development. The work
explores how images emerge and how they become ‘fully realized’. They
could be seen as literal or imaginative permutations of the development
of pictorial meaning.
The concern for liminal understanding
demonstrated in this image series will also play out in new audio-based
work for the LOGGIA this summer. The starting point of this piece is a
recording of a piano coming through the walls of a practice room in a
Toronto public library. The sound of the piano is on the edge of
audibility and its discernment in this semi-public space becomes a focal
point. In the show there will be an ancillary installation to this
altered field recording that reformulates the conditions for this
recorded moment. As with the images, this new work explores how public
space and subjectivity can be eroded or constructed by the
amplification of details.
Lauren Schaffer studied at the Collège
Jean-de-Brébeuf, received a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and
Design and completed an MFA at Concordia University. She has exhibited
across Canada and has participated in numerous Artist in Residence
programs and publication projects. The artist acknowledges the support
of Ryan Blanchard.
Artist’s Presentation: Wednesday 4 August at 12:00 noon