Please join us on Thursday June 21st at 8pm for the opening reception of Seducing Down The Door, an exhibition featuring new works by Toronto artists Dean Baldwin, Anitra Hamilton and Corwyn Lund. Here their distinct practices subtlety intersect and overlap, particularly through the use of colour, form, charm and play, which serve as a veneer to mask the somewhat more sinister subject matter of their investigations.
Anitra Hamilton’s Beater, is a defunct automobile covered in colourful tissue-paper pom-poms and converted into a festive piñata – complete with nacho chips, salsa and tequila- which blindfolded participants are invited to smash with sledgehammers.*
Corwyn Lund’s new photo series and floral installation responds to the found sculptural form of microphone clusters at press conferences, recognizing these events as temporary venues of memorial and collective loss.
Dean Baldwin has constructed a fully stocked mini-bar in the back gallery, from which he will serve tiny cocktails, in a welcoming but somewhat claustrophobic Alice in Wonderland environment.
On June Wednesday 27th at 8pm, Beater temporary leaves the exhibition space and is presented in the courtyard of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (952 Queen St West) where it will be hoisted into the air by crane. Please note: this event is not intended for children.