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Protoscenia In 2004, as a means of subverting his tiny status as a singer and songwriter, Foss began a series of performance works loosely organized under the title "Obscurity is the New Fame". The idea was to explore the conditions of a public concert, to see how an audience would react the more constricted the performance area became (i.e. a public bathroom, stairwell, bus shelter, etc). Encouraged by these experiments, he now devotes his time to the design and construction of performance sculptures, stages and furniture which offer specific barriers and opportunities for the performer and audience. Image: Tor Lukasik-Foss, See the Forest (detail), 2008-2009 |
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Unnatural
Monica Tap and Michel Daigneault September 26, 2009 - January 3, 2010 Opening Reception: Thursday, October 1, 7 - 9 pm This exhibition brings together the work of Monica Tap and Michel Daigneault, painters who explore issues of perception and representation through abstracted representations of natural and synthetic landscapes. Working from projected Quicktime video stills, Tap's paintings are rooted in her experience as a commuter watching the landscape whip by through the windows of buses, cars and trains. Each brushstroke traces a pixel of the still, giving the impression that the paint is pulled across the canvas by sheer speed. In contrast, Daigneault works with a personal vocabulary of motifs and approaches to painting, recombining and reconfiguring them in dreamlike images of internal landscapes populated by seemingly architectural constructs and broad fields of colour. Their affinity lies not only in the large scale of their abstracted landscapes, but also in the simultaneous construction and deconstruction of their source material. Images: Monica Tap, Road to Lily Dale II, 2006, oil on canvas, 80" x 99" |
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Terra Incognito Simon Frank's work incorporates elements of both action and performance. The natural world has been his frame of aesthetic reference for the past ten years. The idea of the scenic view, of "landscape" as such, and the use-value it creates are all central points of enquiry in his work and particularly in his in situ work. In this exhibition, Frank will be producing a work specifically for the Walker Botanical Garden at Rodman Hall, followed by a work for the interior Niche in January 2010. |
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Theatrum Mundi Image: Catherine Heard, Theatrum Mundi (installation detail), 2008 |
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