J. Lynn
Campbell
Essence and Senses
May 23rd – June 14th 2015
Reception: Saturday, May 23rd, 2-5PM
loop Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by member-artist Adrienne
Trent entitled Burden of Histories II.
Essence and Senses consist of mixed media works on paper and wall-mounted sculptures.
Situating the head as the primary location of our sensory faculties, Campbell
begins by photographing faces of friends, which are digitally altered into
dot patterns, reducing colour to grayscale. After printing, these images are
further transformed by manually subtracting and adding to the material base,
thereby changing what was once a familiar face into an unrecognizable imaginary
“someone.”
Change is a constant, inside and outside the body.
Sensory functions are defined as the extent to which an individual senses skin
stimulation, sounds, taste and smell, visual images, and proprioception. Senses
are transducers, converting stimuli from the physical domain to the realm of
the mind where we interpret the information. Thinking, thoughts, ideas,
opinion, judgment, belief – cogitation is a continuous process of evaluation
and selection. Essence and Senses speaks to an ever-changing world that
challenges our intrinsic nature, sensory functions, and perceptions of the
world around us.
Campbell is a Toronto-based artist who trained at the Ontario College of Art
& Design, with independent studies in France, Humanities at the University
of Toronto, and Philosophy at York University. Her practice extends from
two-dimensional collage to three-dimensional construction and site-specific
installation. Her use of materials and methodologies emphasize the working
process, recognizing material as tactile image and subject matter. She has
exhibited in Canada and abroad at galleries in Ontario, Nova Scotia, Italy, and
Germany. Campbell was a member of Workscene
Gallery and Artists Co-operative, Broadview Collective (BVW), The Red Head Gallery, The Tree Museum
Collective (Toronto/Muskoka), and is currently a member of loop Gallery.
Her work is included in private, public, and corporate collections.
Image: P-ID-921-21.01.2015,
Giclee print on Arches Watercolour 300g CP, pigment pen, acrylic ink,
22-carat gold leaf, 22" x 15", 2015
loop Thanks : AUDAXlaw Sumac.com
Adrienne
Trent
Burden of Histories II
May 23rd – June 14th 2015
Reception: Saturday, May 23rd, 2-5PM
loop Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by member-artist Adrienne
Trent entitled Burden of Histories II.
A Canadian-made
Victorian dining room table which has been in the centre of the artist’s family
house for 6 generations serves as a base for this exhibition. All 6
generations have traditionally gathered at this table on special occasions to
dine and discuss the concerns of the day. The installation titled Burden of
Histories II is a continuation of Trent’s 2009 installation Burden
of Histories and a dream snap of radically evolving values and circumstance
within a 150 year period.
After
graduating from the Ontario College of Art in the 80's, Trent went on to
exhibit her art, both nationally and internationally. She was a co-founder
of Republic and was a member of the Red Head Gallery in
the 1990s. She has had exhibits in commercial galleries such as Robert
Birch, Edward Day, Deleon White, Lonsdale and V.Macdonnell; in public
galleries including the Art Gallery of Clarington, Koffler Gallery,
Justina M. Barnicke at the University of Toronto, Robert
Langen at Sir Wilfred Laurier University, and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in
Oshawa; and in various artist-run spaces; Artspace in
Peterborough, White Water Gallery in North Bay, Mercer
Union in Toronto, La Centrale in Montreal, and SAW
Gallery in Ottawa. She has been guest lecturer at Queen's University
in Kingston, Toronto School of Art, and the Ontario College of Art and Design.
Her work is in the collections of The Art Gallery of Ontario, CBC, University
of Toronto, and numerous private collectors.
Trent has also curated a number of exhibitions in
conjunction with both Republic, Red Head, and with Visual
Arts Ontario, where she was the head of the Colour Reprography programme for
artists from 1994 to 1998.
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