Current Exhibitions
LISS PLATT
You Can't Get There From Here
Curated by Marcie Bronson
May 12 - September 16, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 24, 7 - 9 pm
Liss Platt’s work engages with experimental approaches to personal narrative, particularly as informed by growing up in the 1970s. Subverting nostalgic recollections of the era in video and photo-based works that take up the subjects of teenage experience, candies and Betty Crocker recipes, the exhibition ruminates on the often futile search for comfort in the midst of crisis. Like the act of coping itself, the rigid structure and routine within each work negotiates the space between order and chaos, with excess and overload constantly threatening to upset the balance.
Based in Hamilton, Ontario, Liss Platt is an Associate Professor in the Multimedia program at McMaster University. She holds an MFA from the University of California and a BFA from the University of Connecticut. A member of the Shake-n-Make Collective, she also plays ice hockey. Platt is represented by MKG 127 in Toronto.
BARBARA KLUNDER
The Laura Secord Papercuts
Curated by Stuart Reid
May 5 - September 9, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 24, 7-9 pm
Canadian artist and illustrator Barbara Klunder is well known internationally for her bold graphic style, political messages and provocative imagery. In this exhibition called The Laura Secord Papercuts, Klunder turns her talents and deft hand at papercutting, to the task of illustrating the inspiring story of Canadian heroine Laura Secord, one of her familial ancestors. This summer, as the Niagara region commemorates the bicentennial of the War of 1812, Klunder’s exhibition prompts a fresh telling of this fascinating woman’s place in Canada’s history.
For over 35 years, Barbara Klunder has been an influential artist, graphic designer and illustrator that has made substantial contributions to visual culture in Canada. Born in Toronto in 1948, she went on to study at the Ontario College of Art and Design. She began her career as an illustrator and continued as a freelance illustrator/designer winning many awards over the years and designing two fonts.
Image: Barbara Klunder, War of 1812, 2011 papercut.
MARINKO JAREB
Stoop Loggy Log's Underground Rave: Vinyl Toys,
Vinyl Records and Remixes
Curated by Marcie Bronson
January 20 – September 2, 2012
Opening Reception: January 19, 8 pm
Best known for his work as DJ MACHINE, St. Catharines-based artist Marinko Jareb’s multidisciplinary practice was born out of producing thematic underground music events incorporating light, sound, video, and images. Throughout his diverse body of work, Jareb moves fluidly between media, continually reconfiguring the relationship between these elements. Informed by the aesthetics of graffiti and toy culture, his work is often quickly executed and characterized by reductive and highly energetic forms which are often layered and combined to create a sense of excess and joyous sensory overload. Playing with language, altering found texts and images, Jareb’s paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations are marked by a sense of cultural collision, in part inspired by his experience growing up as a Croatian-Canadian.
Taking over the gallery’s project space, Jareb constructs a miniature dance party beneath the forest floor, animated by sound and video mixes and inhabited by a variety of collectible artist toys, including some of his own design. On either side of this disco diorama, in which toys come to life to secretly revel deep in the natural world, he presents two focused streams of work also rooted in the concept of remixing: an interactive listening station featuring a selection of altered 7-inch records and a changing series of collage-based works produced throughout the duration of the installation.
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