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8/1/2010

Jeremy Drummond

Cambridge Galleries Queen's Square, Cambridge

Jeremy Drummond uses photography and video to investigate common perceptions of the suburbs. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere collects several bodies of work completed between 2005-2009 that take the form of unconventional anthropological studies, in which the artist excavates, sorts, documents, and sometimes manipulates signs of suburbia, as a way to reveal their history and hidden meanings. The featured works Street Signs, Intersections, This Could Be Anywhere/This Could Be Everywhere, 65-Point Plan for Sustainable Living and Grave Architecture, collectively bare both the complexity and absurdity of the contemporary suburban environment. Where Street Signs conflates urban planning with home décor, Grave Architecture pointedly addresses the recent mortgage meltdown across the border. The work invites viewers to be cognoscente of the suburbs as a continual negotiation between signs, built forms and the people who inhabit this new frontier, and proposes diversity and difference as a remedy to the pitfalls of monoculture.

Ivan Jurakic, Curator

Artist biography
Jeremy Drummond is a Canadian artist and curator currently living in Richmond, Virginia. He received a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Western Ontario in 1999, and his MFA in Art Media Studies from Syracuse University in 2003. His work has been exhibited widely in festivals, galleries and museums throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Select festival screenings include the Images Festival of Independent Film, Video and New Media (Toronto), LA Freewaves (Los Angeles), Moscow International Film Festival, New York Underground Film Festival, and the International Biennial of Video and New Media (Santiago). Recent and upcoming exhibitions include the Des Moines Art Center, Toronto Pearson International Airport, Latitude 53 (Edmonton), Eyelevel Gallery (Halifax), Arlington Arts Center, and Maryland Art Place (Baltimore). He is represented by ADA Gallery and teaches in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Richmond.

Image: Jeremy Drummond, 65-Point Plan for Sustainable Living: Arizona, USA, 2008, 1 of 65 Lambda prints, face-mounted on acrylic, 25.5 x 18 cm each.

Media contact:
Katrina Jennifer Bedford jbedford@cambridgegalleries.ca 519.621.0460 ext. 119

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 9 at 2:30 pm
The artist will be present at the public reception

Cambridge Galleries Queen's Square
1 North Square Cambridge, ON N1S 2K6
Gallery hours:
Monday to Thursday: 9:30 am - 8:30 pm,
Friday & Saturday: 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, Sunday: 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Admission is free, everyone is welcome.

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