The Koffler Gallery
The Koffler Gallery
Blue Republic: Nostalgia for the Present
Mark Kingwell
Blue Republic, a collaborative entity composed of artists Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski, produces installations that combine humour, wit and metaphor to stimulate discourse on political ideas and economic issues. This publication documents new artworks assembled from discarded industrial materials and re-fashioned into ready-mades. The intention is to invite reflection on the meta-city and on the notions of utopia and dystopia through a fictional, futuristic lens in order to reveal the desires and fantasies and that drive contemporary society.
Koffler Gallery / MacLaren Art Centre (05/2008) 32 pp col. ill. 8 x 8 in softcover 978-0-920863-80-0 $15.00 ($17.95 U.S. / 12 euros)
Mitch Robertson: S&P 100
RM Vaughan & Craig Buckley
The Toronto-based conceptual artist converted the gallery into a lived-in point of manufacture and sale of travel souvenirs. Exposing the marketing strategies employed by the tourism industries that transform mass-produced items into sentimental keepsakes, Robertson questions wthe nature of authentic experience. A thirty-page exhibition catalogue with two essays and several illustrations has been produced in CD format.
The Koffler Gallery (07/2007) 30 pp col. ill. 5 x 5 in CD Rom 978-0920863-76-3 $20.00 Can./U.S. (16 euros)
Barbara McGill Balfour: Selfish
Jennifer Fisher
Photographic representations of the artist in the guise of characters such as Emma Peel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in action figures created in her own likeness, in Silly Putty body impressions and in a fingerprint installation humorously point to the impossibility of defining a fixed sense of self. Barbara McGill Balfour is Head of the Print Media Area, Department of Visual Arts at York University and has exhibited across Canada and the United States for nearly twenty years.
The Koffler Gallery (2007) 32 pp 16 col. ill. 7 x 5 in 9780-920-863-77-0 $10.00 Can./U.S. (8 euros)
Lyn Carter: Incognito
Carolyn Bell & Sarat Maharaj
Using her strong background in textiles, Carter produces wall-mounted sculptures made from patterned cloth and everyday objects. The fabrics reference art history and reflect textile traditions from a variety of world cultures. Interwoven with objects such as plates and platters, her works heighten the antagonism between traditional women's work and male-dominated industrial production.
The Koffler Gallery/ Southern Alberta Art Gallery (02/2007) 60 pp 28 col. ill. 8 x 8 in softcover 978-1-894699-35-8 $20.00 Can./U.S. (16 euros)
Michelle Bellemare: Blind Side
Carolyn Bell Farrell
Michelle Bellemare explores the manner in which associatively rich material like hair and dust gives voice to the inexpressible. She creates seemingly functional objects from familiar material (socks knitted from dust) so as to provoke the body's inherent reflexes. In 2005 Bellemare was invited to exhibit at ARCO, International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid. Copublished with the Koffler Gallery.
The Koffler Gallery/ Southern Alberta Art Gallery (12/2005) 32 pp col. ill. 8 x 6 in softcover 1-894699-27-0 $15.00 Can./U.S. (11 euros)
Machine Life
Jan Allen, Ihor Holubizky & Caroline Seck Langill
Essays trace the history of and current tendencies in robotic and interactive art through the work of Norman White and the artists he has taught and influenced over the past quarter century. The accompanying CD Rom highlights ten individual works.
The Koffler Gallery / Agnes Etherington Art Centre (2004) 63 pp 26 ill (12 col) 8 x 7 in softcover 0-88911-918-x $20.00 Can./U.S. (16 euros)
Lois Andison: Autobody
Carolyn Bell Farrell
Andison's kinetic sculptures explore the status of the body, particularly the female body, at the juncture of the biological and the technological. An intimate understanding of new media enables her to forge an art practice that is "absolutely right for this moment". Her work strikes a powerful and precarious balance between emotional vulnerability and aesthetic strength, and is at once elegant, politically barbed and extremely funny. Produced with the Koffler Gallery.
The Koffler Gallery / Southern Alberta Art Gallery (2002) 32 pp 14 col. ill. 9x6.5 in softcover 0920863639 $15.00 Can./U.S. (11 euros)
Catherine Widgery: Playthings
Carolyn Bell Farrell & Kyo Maclear
The Koffler Gallery (2002) 32 pp col. ill. 8 x 8.5 in 0920863647 $15.00 Can./U.S. (11 euros)
Dream Ecology
Maralynn Cherry
The Koffler Gallery / The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (2000) 20 pp 8 ill. 6x8 in 0921500319 $7.00 Can./U.S. (6 euros)
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