Kelly Mark
Kelly Mark
L'envers des apparences / Appearances
Gilles Godmer et Nathalie de Blois
Dans un monde envahit d'images, 11 artistes canadiens se sont réunis pour décevoir, confondre et désorienter le spectateur hâtif. Utilisant une vaste variété de médias et de stratégies, leur intention et de nous faire arrêter et de nous forcer de reconsidérer ce que l'on voit. En déjouant habilement notre regard superficiel de leur oeuvre, chaque artiste cible les pièges de la première impression. Le résultat est un défi intoxicant où les choses ne sont pas ce qu'elles semblent être. Qu'il s'agisse du trompe-l'oeil dans les peintures de Taras Polataiko, des effets spéciaux dans les vidéos de Tim Lee, de la disparition d'Annie Baillargeon dans ses photographies ou de l'effet aveuglant des vidéos de Euan Macdonald, chaque oeuvre est quelque chose autre que ce dont nous pensions à première vue. Parmi les participants, on retrouve Jérôme Fortin, Germaine Koh, Kelly Mark, Jean-Marc Mathieu-Lajoie, Damian Moppett, Yannick Pouliot et Ana Rewakowicz. Accompagné d'un essai inédit et d'analyses individuelles sur la carrière et la pratique de chaque artiste. En français et anglais.
In a world overrun with images, eleven artists from across the country have come together to deceive, confuse and puzzle the hasty viewer. Using a wide variety of media and strategies their intention is to stop us in our tracks and force us to reconsider what we are seeing. In skillfully thwarting a superficial reading of their works each artist targets the pitfalls of first impressions. The result is an intoxicating challenge where things are not quite as they appear. Taras Polataiko's paintings incorporate tromp l'oeil. Tim Lee's videos use trick special effects. Annie Baillargeon disappears into her own photographs. Euan Macdonald's videos blind the viewer entirely. Other participants include Jérôme Fortin, Germaine Koh, Kelly Mark, Jean-Marc Mathieu-Lajoie, Damian Moppett, Yannick Pouliot and Ana Rewakowicz. An essay acccompanied by individual analyses of each artist's practice and career. In English and French.
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (2005) 112 pp 61 ill. coul. 26 x 20.5 cm 2-551-22692-9 $29.95 Can./U.S. (24 euros)
Free Sample
Kelly Mark et al
Kelly Mark is founder of Samplesize.ca, an on-line art gallery, weblog, laboratory, and playground for artists, writers and curators. Here 16 contributors move off the web with a show of sculptural objects, new media art, written words and works on paper. In Free Sample, parts are borrowed, traded, sampled and replicated using digital media as well as techniques typical of obsessive hobbycraft. Artists include Dave Dyment, Micah Lexier and Jan Peacock.
Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery (2005) 65 pp 23 col. ill softcover 189451825x $10.00 Can./U.S. (8 euros)
Dead Nature / La vie immobile
Emily Falvey
Three artists of diverse disciplines and media reinvent the most traditional of art genres, still life. Through photography, video and performance each metaphorically and symbolically communicates ideas of mortality, vanity and the transience of existence. Falvey's essay ranges broadly through the complex history of the genre. With Rachel Echenberg, Louis Joncas and Kelly Mark. In English and French.
Trois artistes provenant de disciplines diverses réinventent la forme artistique la plus traditionnelle : la nature morte. À travers la photographie, la vidéo et la performance, les artistes communiquent métaphoriquement et symboliquement des idées de mortalité, vanité et du passage de l'existence. L'essai de Falvey parcourt librement l'histoire complexe de la nature morte. Avec des oeuvres de Rachel Echenberg, Louis Joncas et Kelly Mark. En français et anglais.
The Ottawa Art Gallery / La Galerie d'art d'Ottawa (2005) 60 pp 17 col. ill. 7 x 5 in 1-894906-18-7 $15.00 Can./U.S. (12 euros)
Kelly Mark: Important Instructions for Changing the World
James Patten
The Toronto-based artist's conceptual art synthesizes Modernist strategies with her experience of everyday life resulting in work both humorous and profound.
Winnipeg Art Gallery (2001) 144 pp ill. 8x7 in 0889152098 $18.95 (Can./U.S.)
Kelly Mark
Ivan Jurakic, Cliff Eyland & Eileen Sommerman
Described as one of the most ambitious artists to enter the later part of the 1990s, Mark has developed a unique practice informed by Minimalism and Conceptualism and dedicated to aestheticizing the mundane through the use of photography, video and sculpture. Two essays and an interview.
Art Gallery of Hamilton (2000) 40 pages, 12 ill. 8x7 in. softcover 0919153666 $9.95 (Can./U.S.)
Centrifugal
Eileen Sommerman
Publication dedicated to public art projects meant to address the impact of the urban environment on the individual. Participating artists include Kim Adams, Gwen MacGregor and Kelly Mark.
Art Gallery of Hamilton (2000) 48 pages, 20 ill. 8x6 in. softcover 091915364x $9.95 (Can./U.S.)
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