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Dowsing for Failure
"Dowsing for Failure was the latest in decades of Open Space programming intended to complicate the traditions of curatorship and presentation. Failure -- as something that cannot be willfully coveted but must, in many ways, be "happened" upon accidentally and in most instances unintentionally -- holds innovative and intriguing artistic and theoretical possibilities. In exact opposition to the philosophy of the "happy accident" that forms much of the romance of failure as a legitimate element of artistic discovery, Dowsing For Failure seeked specific artists who have encountered ways of not succumbing to the optimistic and opportunistic mobilization of failure in the name of success."--Open Space website.
Drawing Plus
"The nine artists whose works were chosen for exhibition expand drawing practice into a wide range of ideas, materials, and processes, including sculpture/installation, assemblage, painting, xerography, performance, text, and printmaking."--Open Space website.
We Need a New History
" ... A collaborative installation by Sheila Butler and Jack Butler comprised of photographs, notes, drawings, an audiotape, and an essay. In a performance documented here, the artists work with paint directly on each other's skin, recopying medical diagrams while representations of the male and female body in Western art stand behind them. In their work, the artists propose a construction of sexual difference where the sexes are mutually transparent."--Open Space website.
A Critical Beauty
"A Critical Beauty brought together the works of several artists whose practices were united in their interest in developing an informed aesthetic that retained "the beautiful" as legitimate within the syntax of contemporary discourse. Essential within each artist's work was the notion that an apparently traditional strategy was utilized self-reflexively, so that the production acted as both a critique and a defense of the practice. The problematic of traditional painting and representation became the object of critique, and the engaging as a means of recovery. The reconsideration of the notion of objective beauty without altogether disregarding ideas of harmony and balance, or pleasure an sensuality, circulated within the landscape of these works."--Open Space website.
Sandra Meigs
"Victoria artist Sandra Meigs explores expressive terrain in her new project, The Basement Panoramas, connecting drawing, painting, sound, robotics, and perception into an experiential installation. Taking as a point of departure the invisible underthings of architecture -- basements and crawl spaces -- Meigs resuscitates forgotten, often neglected, storage spaces and charges them with potent psycho-social intensity." -- Open Space website.
Space, Site, Intervention
From Ferdinand Chevel's Palais Ideal (1879-1905) and Simon Rodia's Watts Towers (1921-1954) to Ant Farm's Cadillac Ranch (1974) and Richard Serra's Tilted Arc (1981), installation art has continually crossed boundaries, encompassing sculpture, architecture, performance, and visual art. Although unique in its power to transform both the site in which a work is constructed and the viewer's experience of being in a place, installation art has not received the critical attention accorded other art forms. In Space, Site, Intervention, some of today's most prominent art critics, curators, and artists view installation art as a diverse, multifaceted, and international art form that challenges insti...
Domestic Bliss : Martin Golland, Karina Kalvaitis, Robert Randall; Curated by Roy Green
"Spurred by the retreat into the privacy of the domestic space, this exhibit deliberated ideas of the home: as status symbol, architecture, shelter/security, exterior and interior decor, investment/commodity, and as a site of personal expression and identity. This exhibit was curated by Roy Green (artist, poet) and featured recent work by Martin Golland (Guelph ON), Karina Kalvaitis (Victoria), and Robert Randall (Victoria)."--Open Space website.
Wrapture : Jane Martin
"This Toronto artist brought the past seven years of her highly detailed drawings, paintings and lithographs of truncated women's body parts to Open Space."--Open Space website.
Redressing the Crone
"This series of 40 black-and-white photographs of women at different stages of cosmetic surgery continued Smith's interest in issues related to female identity and self-image. The exhibition was presented by Open Space as part of the month-long celebration of International Women's Day."--Open Space website.
