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Front Gallery: DAVID BEATTIE | Back Gallery: Brenda Goldstein
David Beattie, Drumroll, 2009.
Brenda Goldstein, Hereafter, 2010.
March 19, 2010 - May 01, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday 19 March, 7PM
DAVID BEATTIE
The Weight of the Sky
David Beattie’s sculptural works combine the use of sound, movement and physics to create unlikely alliances. For his exhibition The Weight of the Sky the artist explores notions of elementary physics to illustrate the human desire to comprehend and question what surrounds us. Incorporating an array of found objects and electrical devices, such as electric motors, metal tubes and computer fans, Beattie transforms these elements into unique arrangements and creations. His reapplication of domestic objects and technologies offer a fresh reading of their use and function and allow a reinterpretation of the specific identity and history of these redundant objects.
David Beattie was born in Northern Ireland in 1979. He graduated in 2006 with an MA in Visual Art Practices from Dun Laoghaire IADT and in 2001 received his BA from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. He has received a number of awards including an Arts Council Artists Bursary in 2009. He has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at Butler Gallery (Kilkenny, 2009); Oonagh Young Gallery (Dublin, 2009); Mermaid Arts Centre (Bray, Co. Wicklow, 2008) and Temple Bar Gallery & Studios (Dublin, 2006).
Back Gallery:
BRENDA GOLDSTEIN
Hereafter
Brenda Goldstein’s 35mm film installation Hereafter is a spare portrait – a woman in blue operating gown and white mask in a starkly lit environment carries out detailed preparations over an unseen body. On first consideration, this assemblage of elements – the fluorescent lighting, the sterile furniture and the medical garb – all conjure the visual atmosphere of operating room-based television dramas. Yet, unlike those forms of representation, Goldstein’s image trains our eye not on the spectacular image of death, often violently portrayed on television, but rather on the social meaning of caring for the dead. Goldstein highlights the lack of a contemporary vocabulary and rituals around death.
This exhibition is presented in partnership with the Images Festival.
Brenda Goldstein, born 1973, lives and works in Toronto. A prolific artist working in diverse media she has received numerous Canadian grants and commissions. Her short films, videos, installations, and performances have been shown at galleries and festivals nationally and internationally.