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24/1/2003

Catherine Chalmers

Centennial Square, Oakville

Food Chain

January 25, 2003 ­ March 30, 2003
Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square

Curated by Marnie Fleming

Viewing Catherine Chalmers' exhibition Food Chain is a little like watching The Sopranos on television. Both are about the drama of sex, intrigue, predators, consumption and death. The twenty-two large-scale colour photographs in Chalmers' exhibition are the result of a
long-term project, which involved raising insects and other animals in order to re-create the predator-prey encounters one would normally see in nature and then capturing them on film. In viewing the exhibition we are able to witness a food chain that takes place in the artist's New York loft. A caterpillar eats a tomato, a praying mantis eats a caterpillar, and a frog eats a praying mantis. The result is humorous, horrific, surprising and unsettling.

Photographed on a stark white background with controlled lighting, the creatures are removed from their usual contexts and we are forced to examine the vivid detail of their actions. "I'm interested in how, these days, we're unhinged from the natural world," says Chalmers. "The truth is, these life and death struggles happen all around us, all the time. And in some ways, the very beginning of our desire to be civilized is a desire to be out of the food chain ourselves." Her riveting photographs reinvent natural history for a culture increasingly distanced from nature.

Before turning to photography, Catherine Chalmers studied engineering at Stanford University and painting at the Royal College of Art in London. She has had solo exhibitions of her work at P.S.1 in Long Island City, New York and the Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria, and was
commissioned by MASS MoCA to create a large body of work for the exhibition Unnatural Science. She lives in New York City.

Orders can be taken for the book, Food Chain: Encounters Between Mates, Predators and Prey, published by Aperture Foundation, 2000.

Opening Reception: Friday, February 7th, 7:30 to 8:30 pm at Centennial Square followed by a reception in Gairloch Gardens at 8:30 pm.

Artist's Talk        Sunday, February 9th, 2003, 2:30 pm at Centennial Square.

Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square
120 Navy Street
Oakville
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Karilee Fuglem   
many things were left unsaid

February 8, 2003 ­ April 6, 2003

Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens
Curated by Kim Simon

Opening Reception: Friday, February 7th, 8:30 pm in Gairloch Gardens.

Employing modest materials such as plastic bags, chewing gum, tape and fishing line, the work of British Columbia born Montréal artist Karilee Fuglem makes non-visible phenomena seem palpable. Fuglem's site-sensitive installations emphasize ways of knowing and understanding through sensation and visceral comprehension, rather than intellect alone.
   
For her exhibition at Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, Fuglem considers the lives this specific building has housed as both a home and an art gallery. This work continues the artist's investigation into the ways lives lived, conversations, even ideas, might have a presence that lingers in spaces for us to engage at some later moment. Fuglem's work embodies and encourages these abstract and ephemeral moments of engagement which heighten our sensual intelligence, the spatial and tactile senses that arise through one's visual and kinetic interaction in the world.
   
Karilee Fuglem's most recent solo exhibitions include Leo Kamen Gallery, in Toronto, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, in Montréal, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, in Lethbridge, Alberta, and Plein Sud, in Longueuil, Québec. Her  work has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions including La Centrale, in Montréal, the Dunlop Gallery, in Regina, and the Montréal Biennial 1998. Fuglem's work can also be found in the collections of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, and the Musée du Québec.

The artist gratefully acknowledges the support of Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

Artist's Talk       Sunday, February 9th, 2003, 4:00 pm in Gairloch Gardens.

Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens
1306 Lakeshore Road East, Gairloch Gardens
Oakville

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