{"id":7780,"date":"2012-02-23T12:41:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=7780"},"modified":"2012-04-01T10:10:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T14:10:53","slug":"constructing-space-by-laura-st-pierre-and-immony-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=7780","title":{"rendered":"Constructing Space by Laura St. Pierre and Immony Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/St_Pierre-G44.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7696\" title=\"St_Pierre G44\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/St_Pierre-G44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Laura St. Pierre, 07.31(detail), Urban Vernacular Series, 2010<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>March 2 &#8211; March 31, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Friday March 2, 6-9pm | Remarks at 7:30 pm<br \/>\n<strong>Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography<\/strong><br \/>\n401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120<br \/>\nToronto, ON M5V 3A8<br \/>\nT: 416.979.3941<br \/>\nE: <a href=\"http:\/\/webmail.cardinalfactor.net\/src\/compose.php?send_to=sojin%40gallery44.org\">sojin@gallery44.org<\/a><br \/>\nwww.gallery44.org<\/p>\n<p>Constructing Space\u00a0is an exhibition at Gallery 44, which pairs the work of two artists whose approaches to contemporary photography reflect the growing interdisciplinary nature of contemporary art. Immony Men\u2019s project\u00a0Taking Care of Business\u00a0is a photo-based performance\/installation. Men\u2019s installation sees him set-up office in the gallery printing image sections on post-it notes and mounting them to the walls creating an encompassing life-size image.\u00a0Visit the artist during his office hours, or set-up a lunch date with him.<br \/>\nLaura St. Pierre\u2019s\u00a0Urban Vernacular\u00a0series consists of large-scale photographs that document the sculptural installations she makes in the urban environment. Items that we normally discard after a few hours or days are resurrected in a new form\u2014as trash architecture in trashed spaces.\u00a0Look for St. Pierre&#8217;s site-specific installation in the loading dock next to Gallery 44. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallery44.org\/ConstructingSpace\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.gallery44.org\/ConstructingSpace<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE ARTISTS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Immony Men\u00a0<\/strong>is a recent graduate of the MFA Visual Arts program at University of Windsor. He has completed his BFA at Concordia, majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies within Studio Arts. He is a Canadian visual artist currently based in Toronto. Men has exhibited in artist-run-centres across Canada, and has worked with\u00a0Broken City Lab\u00a0research group in Windsor. His focus is on installation and working between the lines of fact and fiction. Labor intensity is a strong element<br \/>\nin his installation art practice. He is currently developing an artist apartment residency program titled\u00a0Change in Plans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura St. Pierre<\/strong>\u00a0is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator. Her installations, sculptures, public works and photography have been exhibited throughout Canada, garnering critical attention in national and international publications.\u00a0\u00a0St.Pierre earned undergraduate degrees at UBC and The U of A, and completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at Concordia University in Montreal. She has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and scholarships as well as major arts grants from the Conseildes Arts et Lettres du Quebec, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Canada Council. She currently lives, works and teaches in Grande Prairie, Alberta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>March 2 &#8211; March 31, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Friday March 2, 6-9p.m<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallery 44 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>pairs the work of two artists reflecting the growing interdisciplinary nature of contemporary art.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=7780\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7780"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7782,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7780\/revisions\/7782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}