WET
June 21 - July 26, 2003
Presented in collaboration with the Ontario Society of Artists Water Group Exhibition
Paula Braswell |
Katharine Harvey |
Judy Cheung
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Paula Braswell
Water: My installation deals with the problems of water pollution that we are confronted with more and more with every passing year. Two columns of cast resin with LCD monitors set into them replicate old water pumps; digital images of water create a metaphor of only experiencing clean water as an illusion.
Katherine Harvey
Above and Below: by emphasizing the physicality of the painting medium, I articulate my personal experience of being immersed in the waterscape. The works are built up with successive layers of acrylic gel medium. In between the strata of clear gel, I repaint certain sections so that the image has three-dimensional qualities. Its physical layers point to the inadequacy of memory through accumulated time; time creates vagueness as does a chronology of paint.
Judy Cheung
Fountain: In 2000, I visited the National Art Gallery for the first time. On my way out, I saw coins that have been dropped into a glass fountain overhead. My immediate perception was that this could be a metaphor; the gallery's alter, perhaps, to artistic endeavour and hence an 'object of desire'.
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