THE NATURAL AND THE MANUFACTURED 2014
Artist talk at 7:30PM in the GALLERY | Reception to follow
PLATFORM 01:
July 3 – August 1, 2014 *extended until August 6th
ALISON JUDD (Guelph, ON)| LIVING WITH A LANDSLIDE
Opening Night: Thursday, July 3rd
Artist talk at 7:30PM in the GALLERY | Reception to follow
Alison Judd is an artist working in printmaking and installation. Her work makes evident her ruminations on transience, impermanence, loss and landscape as she thinks about time, the distance between individuals and the erosion of our relationship with the environment.
The Moosehide Slide is evidence of a landslide that serves as a backdrop to daily life in Dawson City. It is an ancient landslide that the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in call “Ëddhä dädhëcha”, which literally means “weathered moosehide hanging”.
In the gallery installation Living with a Landslide, Alison Judd has brought the landslide into town and into the gallery. Working with handmade and Japanese papers she has ‘collected’ the rocks by walking to the slide daily and taking paper castings. The artist is interested in this place where the sudden movement of the earth is evident because it allows exploration of time and its implication for both our personal and natural ecologies.
Working slowly, repetitively with her hands and body are important aspects of the work. “I need to think slowly and use repetition as a tool to understand change. It is the slow accretion of construction and insight that subsequent elements impose on me – not I on them”.
Alison Judd is a Guelph based artist. She earned a diploma from Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto, a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, and obtained my Masters of Fine Art at York University in Toronto.
She teaches printmaking at the Ontario College of Art & Design University (OCADU) and at the University of Guelph.
PLATFORM 02:
August 14 – September 19, 2014
DYLAN MINER MICHIF – MICHIN
(gallery installation)
&
TERRANCE HOULE FRIEND OR FOE #5 (Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, Dawson City)
(outdoor installation)
DAVID GARNEAU ROAD KILL WILD-LIFE ART AND MÉTIS IMAGINATION:
AN ILLUSTRATED ARTIST TALK
CHARLES ATLAS SHEPPARD POST-EXHIBITION TEXT
The Natural & The Manufactured is a unique thematic project jointly organized by the ODD Gallery and the Artist in Residence Program at the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture based in Dawson City, Yukon. Conceived as a speculative research and presentation forum, the N&M looks to the myriad ways in which we both influence and are influenced by our natural and constructed environments.
Project Website: naturalmanufactured.com