Saint Mary's University Art Gallery
5865 Gorsebrook Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
(902) 420-5445
www.smuartgallery.ca
Tuesday to Friday 11am - 5pm, Saturday & Sunday 12pm - 5pm
Jeannie Thib: Hyperflat
Jeannie Thib: Hyperflat presents an extensive selection of works by this respected Toronto artist, who borrows decorative patterns from textiles and domestic surfaces, and extends them into three dimensions, generating sculptural forms.
Thib’s sculptural installations, wall drawings and works on paper examine relationships between the decorative and the modern, between architecture and ornament, original and reconstruction. The artist translates historical designs into contemporary industrial materials, reconstituted through operations of cutting and piling, and reinvented through strategies of magnification, repetition, excision and invasion.
“I see Jeannie Thib’s trajectory in recent years leading to ornament as a critique of modernist, rectilinear space, says exhibition curator, Tila Kellman, of Antigonish, and of “ornament as architectural space or built environment.” Thib’s recent work, she says has “demonstrated how ornamental motifs can be reduced to a wide variety of separate elements that are then available for re-combination at the level of the fragment, or as a new way of chaining together an environment.”
March 17 to May 13, 2012
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