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For more information or to purchase a publication please contact administrator Danny Custodio at dcustodio@brocku.ca [1], 905-688-5550 ext. 5802. Prices are subject to HST and shipping charges may apply.

Simone Jones All That Is Solid$20.00Using photography, film, and CGI, the Toronto-based media artist explores how we see the world, and how our perception of reality can shift through various applications of what we record. In the central work discussed here four screens lean against the wall with images, both black and white and CGI, flowing one into the other. By conjoining images, the artist is attempting to create a hybrid space - asking the viewer to focus their attention on the nature of the images themselves. In a related work, Jones produces stereograms - images that allow us to see in three dimensions without the use of external visual aids. Published in collaboration with Rodman Hall Art Centre, Thames Art Gallery and The Reach Gallery Museum.Product Information Author(s): Linda Jansma, Chris Gehman and Stuart Reid Publisher(s): The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Rodman Hall Art Centre, Thames Art Gallery and The Reach Gallery Museum Year: 2012 ISBN: 978-1-926589-77-0 Pages: 68 pp Illustrations: Colour Dimensions: 9 x 8 in softcover Availability: In stock [2]

Toby Anderson Trinities: 33 Years of Painting$15.00Documenting the Rodman Hall’s 2008 retrospective of Anderson’s work, the fully-illustrated 36-page catalogue features essays by Carolyn Wren and John B. Boyle, and is currently available for purchase through the gallery.Product Information Author(s): Carolyn Wren and John B. Boyle Publisher(s): Rodman Hall Art Centre/Brock University Year: 2002 ISBN: 978-0-9864955-6-4 Pages: 36 Illustrations: Colour Dimensions: 7 x 7 inches softcover Availability: In stock [3]

Catherine Heard Theatrum Mundi$26.00Known for her sculptural work depicting things both monstrous and wondrous, Catherine Heard’s Theatrum Mundi (November 8, 2008 – January 3, 2010) recalled the European tradition of the wunderkammer. Transforming the rear bay window wells of Rodman Hall’s historic mansion into her own cabinet of curiosities, Heard displayed her personal collection of artworks, objects, and oddities, adding to and rearranging her collection throughout the exhibition.Drawing on the aesthetic of Heard’s installation, the publication designed by Jenn Hunt and Tom Creighton of factor[e] design initiative includes an artist’s multiple and features essays by J. Keri Cronin and Rebecca Ward.Product Information Author(s): J. Keri Cronin and Rebecca Ward Publisher(s): Rodman Hall Art Centre/Brock University Year: 2011 ISBN: 978-0-9864955-4-0 Pages: 34 pp Illustrations: Colour Dimensions: 8 x 5 in softcover Availability: In stock [4]

Graeme Patterson Grudge Match$15.00Executed in Graeme Patterson’s signature style, Grudge Match imagines a freestyle wrestling match between the artist and his long-lost childhood friend, Yuki. Best friends at the age of 5, Patterson lost touch with Yuki once his friend returned to Japan four years later. Through sculptural installation and stop-motion video, puppets of Patterson and Yuki as teenagers engage in a fictional match in a high school gymnasium. A conflation of personal experience and emotional memory, the installation recreates and plays with Patterson’s memories of his first best friend, exploring boyhood rivalry and the bonds of friendship.Product Information Author(s): Shirley Madill Publisher(s): Rodman Hall Art Centre/Brock University Year: 2011 ISBN: 978-0-9864955-2-6 Pages: 12 pp Illustrations: Colour Dimensions: DVD 5 x 5 inches softcover Availability: In stock [5]

Micah Lexier A Week At A Glance$20.00A Week At A Glance is a one-year project by Micah Lexier made specifically for Rodman Hall Art Centre. Beginning on the first Monday of 2011, four objects are displayed in the gallery’s project space, which has been converted, per Lexier’s specifications, into a custom-built vitrine. Each Monday, one object is removed and replaced by another object drawn from Lexier’s personal collection of everyday items. After fifty-two objects have cycled through the installation, three of the four objects presented during the first week are reintroduced, one per week, during the last three weeks of the installation. The project concludes on the first Sunday of 2012 with a display that is one move away from the first, creating a complete loop that brings the project back to its beginning.This bookwork is a size-as reproduction of all fifty-two one-week displays. The size of the book relates to the display surface in the vitrine, and each week is represented by three consecutive double-page spreads. The book was designed as a stand-in for the exhibition, but it also stands alone.  Product Information Author(s): Marcie Bronson & Micah Lexier Publisher(s): Rodman Hall Art Centre/Brock University Year: 2011 ISBN: 978-0-9864955-3-3 Pages: 320 pp Illustrations: Black & White Dimensions: 12 x 9 inches softcover Availability: In stock [6]

David Hoffos Scenes from the House Dream $50.00 During its cross-Canada tour, David Hoffos’s Scenes from the House Dream exhibition includes venues such as The National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design. This publication displays Hoffos’s art practice from the last five years culminating in the masterpiece Scenes from the House Dream. It includes essays by Shirley Madill, David Garneau, Nancy Tousley and Chester Pelkey. The exhibition and publication has been organized by the Rodman Hall Art Centre/Brock University, with the assistance of the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and TrepanierBaer Gallery. The financial assistance of the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts is gratefully acknowledged.Product Information Author(s): David Garneau, Nancy Tousley, Shirley Madill & Chester Pelkey Publisher(s): Rodman Hall Art Centre/Brock University Year: 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9691206-9-8 Pages: 144 pp Illustrations: Colour Dimensions: 8 x 11 inches hardcover Availability: In stock [7]

Luanne Martineau$25.00Based in Victoria, BC, Luanne Martineau’s hybrid felted wool sculptures blur the boundaries between high modernist art and craft. With cultural references ranging from R. Crumb to Modernist masters, Martineau engages in a long tradition of merging social satire with contemporary art and creates powerful confrontations between the attractive, the familiar and the grotesque. Includes essays by Lesley Johnstone, Dan Adler & Shirley Madill. Martineau brings her sculptures to Rodman Hall Art Centre from May 7 - August 28, 2011. Published by the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.Product Information Author(s): Lesley Johnstone, Dan Adler & Shirley Madill Publisher(s): Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal Year: 2010 ISBN: 978-2-551-23876-7 Pages: 64 pp Illustrations: Colour Dimensions: 11 x 8 inches, softcover Availability: In stock [8]

Samuel Roy-Bois Polarizer$20.00Samuel Roy-Bois’s Polarizer, in conjunction with The Robert McLaugin Gallery and Southern Alberta Art Gallery, presents this collaborative exhibition between the three galleries and includes a conversation between the artist and Ryan Doherty, curator of the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Polarizer will be on display in the Harris-Godwin gallery from May 28 - August 28, 2011.Product Information Author(s): Ryan Doherty & Samuel Roy-Bois Publisher(s): Southern Alberta Art Gallery, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery & Rodman Hall Art Centre/Brock University Year: 2009 ISBN: 978-1-894699-48-8 Pages: 89 Illustrations: Black & White, 30 Colour ill. Dimensions: 9.25 x 7.25 inches, softcover Availability: In stock [9]

David Spriggs Archaeology of Space$23.00Using layered groups of transparent drawings suspended in museum-style cases, Spriggs creates what he calls Spatial Image Sculpture. These optical illusions of deep space, reminiscent of holograms, read as parallel spatial theatre. This deconstruction of form highlights the mechanics of vision at a time when cinema and digital imaging have come to offer alternative visual landscapes.Product Information Author(s): Gordon Hatt & Charles Stankievech Publisher(s): Rodman Hall Art Centre/Brock University & Southern Alberta Art Gallery Year: 2008 ISBN: 978-1-894699-44-0 Pages: 63 Illustrations: Colour Dimensions: 10 x 7.5 inches softcover Availability: In stock [10]

Susan Bozic The Dating Portfolio$20.00Susan Bozic's work recalls the performance-based photography of Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall while taking as its subject the social construction of romance. Bozic's character's dates a male mannequin and, through her photographs, we follow the couple from courtship and meeting the family to intimacy. Bozic reflects on consumer society's pursuit of happiness and the good life while referencing the internet dating phenomenon by staging dates with someone a little bit "different." Her project merges the optimism of movie-star promotional photographs with questions about both the tradition of courtship and its current state. Two essays elucidate her practice.Product Information Author(s): Gordon Hatt & Bill Jeffries Publisher(s): Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Rodman Hall Art Centre/Brock University & Simon Fraser University Gallery Year: 2008 ISBN: 978-1-894699-39-6 Pages: 64 Illustrations: Colour Dimensions: 10 x 8 inches softcover Availability: In stock [11]

Diana Thorneycroft The Doll Mouth Series$10.00Product Information Author(s): Gordon Hatt & Steven Matijcio Publisher(s): Rodman Hall Art Centre/Brock University Year: 2006 ISBN: 0-9691206-6-4 Pages: 41 Illustrations: Colour Dimensions: 7 x 7 inches softcover Availability: In stock [12]

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