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12/9/2002

Harrison, Back

Oakville Galleries, Oakville

Rachel Harrison
Brides and Bases
Curated by Ben Portis

September 14th ­ November 17th, 2002
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens

In recent years, Brooklyn-based artist Rachel Harrison has carved out a distinctive niche in contemporary art with works and installations that hybridize the sculptural, the painterly, and the photographic. Her work examines the condition of looking, wanting and having, with a finely tuned balance of sharp wit, wry sympathy and sensitive insight which is Harrison's own. Rejecting conventions, Harrison's work invites viewers to look closely and think imaginatively: why this specific image or that particular form? Each piece combines unusual materials, for example, framed photographs with Styrofoam, papier-mâché, plywood, or cement.

For her exhibition at Oakville Galleries, Harrison will create a new series of images that address the gallery's location in a public park setting. Gairloch Gardens will become the 'site of the photographic,' the images of which will consider the myriad rites, with their own aesthetic specifications, which regularly occur just beyond the gallery's walls.

Rachel Harrison's work was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. Her work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Harvard Art Museums, among others.

Opening Reception: Friday, September 13th, 8:30 p.m. in Gairloch Gardens.

in the picture: Marlon and Indian detail, 2002, raquel harrison.

Artist Talk : Rachel Harrison
Artist Rachel Harrison will talk about her work on Sunday, September 15th, 2:30 p.m.
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens.

Commentary: Reception Line
A series of three speakers respond to the latest of artist Rachel Harrison's enigmatic installations.
The speakers will give themselves up to the act of interpretation through gut responses and spontaneous riffs on the meanings of Harrison's freshly minted art. Children's activities offered concurrently in the Gardens. This event is free, but requires pre-registration as space is limited.
Please call 905.844.4402 x23.

Avril Benoît ­ Sunday, September 22nd, 2:30 pm in Gairloch Gardens Avril Benoît is the host of CBC Radio One's drive-home show in Toronto, Here & Now.

Russell Smith ­ Sunday, October 6th, 2:30 pm in Gairloch Gardens. Russell Smith works regularly with the CBC and writes for The Globe and Mail.

John Doyle ­ Sunday, October 27th, 2:30 pm in Gairloch Gardens. John Doyle has been widely published in Canada, the United States, Britain and Ireland and has lectured about Television and other aspects of popular culture.

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Doug Back
Shadow Grappling
Organized and circulated by The Art Gallery of Peterborough
Curated by Su Ditta

September 14th ­ November 10th, 2002
Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square

Doug Back's artistic method draws on computers, motors, video cameras, body parts and everyday objects to create an otherwise unimaginable world of robotic creatures, shadow puppets, handbuilt machines, conceptual mirrors and kinetic extravaganzas. His magic mixes science and art to explore the spaces where abstract physics, mathematics and digital technologies meet an electric skin and the palpable warmth of the living human body. This work reflects the search of the human heart on a journey to come to terms with the super-natural shadow of technology in contemporary Western culture.

Employing a complex knowledge of technology, Doug Back manipulates not just wires, but sensibilities, reconstructing a 'technological body' that is rich with memory, desire, anxiety and pleasure. The cool components of computers and digital imagery are reshaped and turned upside down to create interactive installations that radiate extremes of tone and texture. These are emotional machines, in unstable states.

This exhibition brings together selected works from over three decades of practice and includes several new works made specifically for this exhibition. Doug Back was born in Toronto and lives in Norwood, Ontario. He teaches at the Ontario College of Art and Design and is a winner of the prestigious Canada Council - Petro Canada Award for outstanding achievement in new media art.

Opening Reception: Friday, September 13th, 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Centennial Square, followed by a reception in Gairloch Gardens at 8:30 p.m.

Artist Talk : Doug Back
Artist Doug Back will talk about his work on Tuesday, September 17th, 7:30 p.m.,
Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square.

Commentary: Steve Mann on Doug Back
Sunday, October 20th, 2:30 p.m.
Oakville Public Library, Central Branch Auditorium, 120 Navy Street

Steve Mann is the world's first real cyborg, a man who exists in harmony with technology. With the help of a computer he has developed to serve as an extension of his own senses, he is able to absorb reality electronically. For more information, go to http://www.wearcam.org

Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens is located at 1306 Lakeshore Road East, 2 km east of downtown Oakville. The gallery is open 1:00 to 5:00 p.m., Tuesday to Sunday. Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square is located at 120 Navy Street in downtown Oakville. The gallery is open 12:00 to 9:00 p.m., Tuesday to Thursday; 12:00 to 5:00 p.m., Friday; 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturday; and 1:00 to 5:00 p.m., Sunday. Admission to the Galleries is free. For further information please call 905.844.4402

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