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21/7/2000

Lisa Neighbour: Illuminations

Cambridge Galleries Queen's Square, Cambridge

The Cambridge Galleries present a touring exhibition of selected electrical multimedia work created by Toronto artist Lisa Neighbour over the last decade. Neighbour is well known in Cambridge for her landmark Eye on the Square, which was installed temporarily at the Queen's Square library in Cambridge in 1994, and recommissioned as a permanent installation in November 1998.

Lisa Neighbour's body of electric light sculpture originated in the late eighties -- a time of social and economic dislocation. Drawing on the influence of Mexican and Portuguese festival decoration and inspired by sources as diverse as Sufism, animism, the art of divination and macramé, Neighbour's work embraces high and low art as a talisman against future shock and an expression of contemporary cultural hybridization.

"Illuminations" will be presented in a darkened gallery, lit up with a constellation of painted, shaped and electrically illuminated objects that chart the artist's journey through the decade of the 90s. The exhibition will include the Eye on the Square, originally installed on the face of the Cambridge Libraries & Galleries, Queen's Square (see illustration) and approximately 30 smaller works done over the last 13 years. The exhibition will open in Cambridge, Ontario in July, 2000 and will travel to Montreal's Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts in January, 2001.

Accompanying the exhibition is a bilingual, colour illustrated catalogue with an essay by exhibition curator Gordon Hatt. The catalogue has been made possible in part with the assistance of the Liane and Danny Taran Gallery, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts in Montreal.

Lisa Neighbour is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design. She has had a number of significant exhibitions of her work in: the solo exhibition "Loot" at the Koffler Gallery, Toronto (1995), "Dalgas Underground," Copenhagen, Denmark (1996), "Rococco Tattoo" at the Powerplant, Toronto (1997), and in collaboration with Carlo Cesta in "Crosseyed," Toronto (1998). Recently Neighbour has had solo exhibitions at Eye Level Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia ("The Breeze," 1999) and at Artcite Inc. in Windsor, Ontario ("Twisty," 2000) as well as being part of the the exhibition "2000 Lux" at McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario (2000).

Queen's Square
20 Grand Avenue North, Cambridge, Ont. N1S 2K6
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Monday to Thursday: 9:30 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.; Friday & Saturday: 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.; *Sunday: 1 - 5 p.m. (*Closed Sundays during the summer from the Victoria Day weekend through the Labour Day weekend)

To get to the Cambridge Galleries by car from Toronto or London, take the 401 and exit at Hwy. #24 (South). Drive approximately three kilometres, and turn right at Main Street and drive over the bridge. The Cambridge Galleries are on the right and are identifiable by Lisa Neighbour's Eye on the Square.

The Cambridge Galleries are supported by the membership, the City of Cambridge, the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council.

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