LAKESHORE
John Armstrong & Paul Collins
November 14 - December 13 2003
Opening Reception - November 14th @ 8pm
To hear an audio interview with John Armstrong, click here. For images of the installed exhibition, click here.
Lakeshore is about beginnings, transformations, and destinations. The notion of lakeshore suggests a variety of metaphors: Upon one’s departure from land, and across water, one watches the city recede over a blue plane at the beginning of a journey; the lakeshore is also a vista from which one might watch the land grow nearer, as in a homecoming. The lake is mysterious, deep, uncharted - to venture across is to take risks and, speaking figuratively, begin a life journey. Or the traverse may as easily be a work-a-day commute, or a diversion.
John
Armstrong and Paul Collins paint receptacles filled with water and phrases
taken from popular culture and everyday lingo on colour photographs that
play off their encompassing definition of a lakeshore. The artists offer
the lakeshore as symbolic locus of contact points. These points
are between people, places, life stages, geographic boundaries, and the
artists themselves.
Simply put, Lakeshore is about life’s travels, both symbolic and
real, both
banal and extraordinary.
- Erin Finley
JOHN ARMSTRONG has
exhibited at Toronto's Robert Birch, YYZ, Cold City and Edward Day galleries,
as well as in Vancouver, Paris and Madrid. "Sanguine," a 1998
survey exhibition of his artwork from the 1990s, was organized by Cambridge
Galleries and toured to Plug In, Winnipeg and Owens Art Gallery, Sackville,
New Brunswick.
PAUL COLLINS, originally from Toronto, has lived and worked in Paris for 20 years. He has shown in Toronto at A Space, YYZ and Mercer Union, and in Paris at the Fondation Cartier and CREDAC as well as at the MusÈe des Beaux-arts de Mulhouse. Collins has recently finished recording an album of electronic music with the French composer J.J. Palix.
John Armstrong will give an artist talk November 13th at 10 a.m. Please go to the Stanford Perrot Lecture Hall at the Alberta College of Art & Design (1407-14th Ave. NW, Calgary AB). All are welcome. Admission is free.
+ 15 Window Project Space:
2cycle Transparent Bike by Noel Begin & Carol Green
