PAST EXHIBITION
A Light In The Moon
Geoffrey Farmer
1 November 2013 - 11 January 2014
Opening Reception 1 November 2013 7pm
In her 1977 book On Photography Susan Sontag pronounced “to collect photographs is to collect the world.” This statement resonates with the work of Geoffrey Farmer who excavates multifarious cultural histories, from the life of Frank Zappa and his Mothers of Invention, photographs in Life magazine between 1935 and 1985, Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of […]
PAST EXHIBITION
WHEN PLATITUDES BECOME FORM
Christopher Kulendran Thomas
6 September 2013 - 12 October 2013
Opening Reception 6 September 2013 7pm
UK-based artist Christopher Kulendran Thomas takes as materials the whole system by which art is distributed, purchasing existing artworks from the margins of international art power and reconfiguring them for worldwide circulation. Through this evisceration of contemporary art’s globalising mission, cultural exchange is explicitly perverted by the underlying colonial trading patterns that it usually masks. […]
PAST EXHIBITION
THE THICK OF IT
Eric Cameron, Tammi Campbell, Monique Mouton, Lisa Muzzin, Sasha Pierce, Josh Thorpe, and John Baldessari
Curated by York Lethbridge
28 June 2013 - 3 August 2013
Opening Reception 28 June 2013 7pm
Front and Back Galleries The Thick Of It brings together work by seven artists that balances process and the material concerns of painting, not as a discrete medium, but as a starting point with outcomes that blur disciplinary boundaries. Works here posit painting as a meditative or mundane activity, and painting as objects created with […]
PAST EXHIBITION
PAUL SIETSEMA
14 March 2013 - 20 April 2013
Opening Reception 14 March 2013 7pm
Mercer Union is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Paul Sietsema in Canada. The exhibition will foreground the 16mm film Telegraph as well as a small selection of ink drawings. Deeply invested in the process of image-making, Paul Sietsema’s layered, self-reflective work explores how imagery and material affect society’s understanding of culture and […]
PAST EXHIBITION
DISCIPLINE
Matt Rogalsky
10 January 2013 - 16 February 2013
Opening Reception 10 January 2013 7pm
For twelve self-resonating Fender Stratocaster guitars shadowing a classic rock radio station Discipline focuses on the electric guitar as the iconic musical instrument of the 20th century and an object of obsession. The model of guitar used in the installation—twelve of them in bright colors, brand name hardly needing to be mentioned—was designed in 1954 […]
PAST EXHIBITION
HOW TO SEE AND READ THE AURA
Kyla Mallett
10 January 2013 - 16 February 2013
Opening Reception 10 January 2013 7pm
These works began as a tangent to Mallett’s Self-Help work. In collecting second-hand self-help materials, she encountered a book entitled How to See and Read the Aura which fell under the category of parapsychology and new-age healing. This text became a key element to her research in self-help, which Mallett expanded on in this body […]