Geoffrey Farmer
The Catriona Jeffries Gallery is pleased to open our second installment
of the exhibition Mix with care. Featuring works by Geoffrey
Farmer, Brian Jungen, Germaine Koh, Myfanwy MacLeod, Damian Moppett, Alex
Morrison, and Ian Wallace, the show brings together uncommon models of public
space to reconceive the notion of the civic
plaza.
Germaine
Koh's flexible work Points reconfigures a series of orange
pylons to demarcate a detour, corral visitors, or safeguard some sort of
unspecified liability. Brian Jungen's plywood cut-out cites the
construction hoarding that he purpose-built outside Vancouver's Contemporary Art
Gallery, designed with square holes to direct pedestrians' attention to a block
of older Yaletown buildings perhaps slated for redevelopment. Open Air
Cinema by Alex Morrison shows a graffiti contest taking
place on a public common in Kreutzberg, Berlin, thereby flipping acts associated
with political protest and street action into the realm of performance and
spectacle. Geoffrey Farmer's new installation entitled And
Finally the Street Becomes the Main Character..., yokes a film
industry-styled dumpster and fake brick together with an elaborate sound
component. A new mobile by Damian Moppett joins his series of
large photographs, Cities of the Future, depicting models of
architectural groupings in the studio. At the foot of the stairs,
Myfanwy MacLeod up-ends a picnic table to make A Shady
Place. Finally, trading one form of abstract space for another, Ian
Wallace discerns the dense grid of forces traversing New York's
flashiest enclave in his work, Times Square NYC (July 11, 2003) I.
Together the works in Mix with care jostle the prosaic convention
of the urban plaza and (perhaps) agitate the regrouping of public
space.
For
further information about this exhibition please contact the Catriona Jeffries
Gallery,
604.736.1554
Concurrent exhibitions:
Jin-me Yoon
Unbidden Oakville Galleries, OakvilleKevin Schmidt Burning Bush Artspeak
Gallery, Vancouver
10 September 15 October
Germaine Koh Sobey Art Award, MOCCA,
Toronto
24 September 6 November, 2005
Germaine Koh Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
15 September 2 October
Alex Morrison Unheimlich Jung
Stδdtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, GermanyRon Terada Mercer Union, Toronto
15 September 22 October
Ron Terada General Ideas: Rethinking
Conceptual Art 19902004, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San
Francisco
Ron Terada Art Gallery of Windsor
24 September 4 December
Geoffrey Farmer The Power Plant, Toronto
24 September 20 November
Brian Jungen
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New YorkCatriona Jeffries Gallery
at the Toronto International Art FairCatriona Jeffries Gallery
at Art Basel Miami Beach
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