October 27 – November 26, 2011
Artist talks: Thursday, October 27, 6-7 pm
Opening: Thursday, October 27, 7-9 pm
Open Studio Gallery Print Sales Gallery
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 104
Toronto ON, M5V 3A8
T/F: 416-504-8238
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2010-11 Scholarship/Fellowship Exhibitions
Each year, Open Studio awards three scholarships/fellowships,
providing artists working in print media with both professional support and
access to studio facilities to create new work during a one-year period. All
three artists will give illustrated talks about their work and the progress
of their projects over the year on Thursday, October 27 at 6 pm at Open
Studio, followed by an opening reception. As London, ON-based artist, writer and academic Patrick Mahon points out the common thread between these three exhibitions is that all three artists are engaged in complex practices of making art generated in response to living/thinking experiences, which ultimately point to the artists themselves.
Lauren Nurse’s “There’s always room on the broom” (Print Sales Gallery)
synthesizes the artist’s interests in the modern separation and opposition
between culture and nature, and in locating the mythological/uncanny in
evocations of the wild. Cultural perceptions of nature have always held a
certain amount of anxiety, and have spawned numerous myths, legends and
fables. These narratives expose culture’s uneasy relationship with the
natural world. In viewing the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body, Nurse considers the mythic as a symbolic expression of the cultural unease that pervades a society and shapes its collective behavior. Her work has revolved around the idea of collisions between nature and culture passing comment on some of the ways in which we see nature as existing outside of culture and society, yet simultaneously influencing the ways in which we live.
Open Studio thanks The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation and the
Donald O¹Born Family for their kind support of the 2010-11
Scholarship/Fellowship Program.
Open Studio gratefully acknowledges the support of The City of Toronto
through the Toronto Arts Council, The Canada Council for the Arts and the
Ontario Arts Council. Open Studio also acknowledges the generous support ofits members and numerous foundations, corporations and individuals.