{"id":4911,"date":"2011-10-30T23:50:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T23:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=4911"},"modified":"2011-11-27T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T15:51:47","slug":"joseph-hartman-the-road-north-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=4911","title":{"rendered":"JOSEPH HARTMAN: The Road North"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Highway 69 Construction Cutline, Killarney, Ontario, 2008<\/p>\n

November 3 \u2013\u00a0 26, 2011<\/strong>
\nOpening: Saturday, November 5, 2-5pm
\nSTEPHEN BULGER GALLERY<\/strong>
\n1026 Queen Street West
\nToronto, Ontario M6J 1H6
\nT: 416.504.0575
\nE: info@bulgergallery.com<\/a>
\nwww.bulgergallery.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The gallery is pleased to present our first solo exhibition of work by Joseph Hartman.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Road North\u201d features work from Hartman\u2019s two recent series \u201cHighway 69\u201d and \u201cCollins and Heron Bay\u201d, both of which explore notions of memory, the environment and our relationship to the landscape. Hartman\u2019s \u201cHighway 69\u201d examines the interaction between humans and landscape, and the influences each has on the other. This work was inspired by the artist\u2019s connection to this particular region as a result of travelling through it his whole life. Hartman documents this landscape in transition as it goes through a state of deconstruction and reconstruction via the longstanding expansion project of the highway.<\/p>\n

\u201cHighway 69\u201d is also the first leg of a journey that leads to two small native communities in Northern Ontario, Collins and Heron Bay, where Hartman spent the first three years of his life. Although he had no real memories of those early years, his first conscious memory being the day his family moved from the north to the house that his family still inhabits in southern Ontario, he did have images of those early years in his mind.<\/p>\n

Hartman\u2019s first year psychology course at Laurentian University, taught him that the mind has the ability to create personal memories from stories heard repeatedly, and that these memories feel as genuine as a memory created from an actual experience. He felt that the images in his mind\u2019s eye of those early years in Collins and Heron Bay were most likely created after listening to the stories that his parents told over the years.<\/p>\n

Floating through his thoughts just like concrete memories, made it hard to distinguish fabrications pasted together from stories and old photographs, with other memories and thoughts from his subconscious. Hartman\u2019s series \u201cCollins and Heron Bay\u201d culminated out of a trip to the area 30 years after having left, to determine if his memories were fictional or concrete. Hartman made photographs of places that felt familiar to him, places that he had no doubt passed through 30 years earlier, yet he had no memory of having been there before.<\/p>\n

After receiving a Master\u2019s degree in Kinesiology at the University of McMaster in 2004 and being accepted into Medical School, Hartman decided to pursue a career as an artist. He is a self-taught photographer and apprenticed with Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky for over five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November 3 \u2013 26, 2011<\/strong>
\nOpening: Saturday, November 5, 2-5pm<\/p>\n

STEPHEN BULGER GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Road North\u201d explore notions of memory, the environment and our relationship to the landscape<\/p>\n

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