Kreft Center Gallery, Concordia University
July 11 – August 13, 2006
credit participating artists:
John DeHoog, David Heinz, Steven Mankouche, Abigail Murray, Brian Nelson, Dan Price, Katherine Silvio, Joshua Smith, and James Viste.
photos by Joshua Ray Smith
curatorial statement:
Works in Material and Space
Hosted by Assistant Professor of Art at Concordia University, Joshua Smith, Works in Material and Space is an exhibition gathering area artists who transcend the symbolic structure of language and the immediacy of imagery by use of significant materials placed in specific space. The gallery space presents a stage for the language of material, texture, depth, and concepts of tactility to perform in an often-flattened world of representation. The artists consider material such as fine woods, bone china ceramic, rubber, brass, bronze, concrete, forged steel, and welded stainless steel.
The art object consumes and displaces the atmosphere in which it stands, while simultaneously having the capacity to hold, contain, push, shape, and define that very space. Form finds a succinct completion in the space of the viewer’s mind. Specific materials and method-driven process fuel this exploration in tactile and visceral space.
- Joshua Ray Smith, curator
