Graeme Patterson
Grudge Match

May 1 - August 22, 2010
Related Programming: The Main Event, Friday, April 23, 2010, 8 pm

Executed 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. 

Image: Graeme Patterson, Grudge Match (in progress), 2009 - 2010.

Karilee Fuglem

May - August, 2010

Working with simple materials such as nylon monofilament and clear plastic, Montreal-based artist, Karilee Fuglem explores the intangible and the barely visible, giving form to that which is often overlooked. The weightlessness and organic nature of her work belies the labour-intensive process of hand-weaving, crocheting, and looping kilometer upon kilometer of thread into large-scale installations that alter the viewer's perception of space and movement through the gallery. In a site-specific exhibition for the Hansen Gallery, Fuglem responds to Rodman Hall and the surrounding area, referencing the natural world and exploring the history of the mansion and its inhabitants.

Image: Karilee Fuglem, Learning to Live on the Ground, 2008, nylon monofilament. Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay. Courtesy of Pierre-Francois Ouellette art contemporain.