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Gallery presents
December 6-28, 2014 Opening
Reception: December 6, 2014, 2-5PM
Guided Tour: December 20th, 2014, 2-3PM
Libby
Hague Alone together
In Alone together, people, animals and
things are connected along a rhizome baseboard or floorboard, through sympathy
and other intangibles. From the misery of an elephant in the Shanghai zoo to a
child too big for the baby swing - and more abstract points in between, Alone
together attempts to move beyond autobiography into the big wide world.
Hague studied fine
art at Concordia. In 2014, she had an interdisciplinary residency in Scotland
at Hospitalfield Arts, and installed Shift, a woodcut and helium
installation at the University of the Arts, Tokyo with Rochelle Rubinstein. Her
recent Toronto shows were Family Dynamics, Verso, 2014, Synchromesh,
loop 2013, Be Brave! We are in this together, YYZ, 2012
and Sympathetic Connections at the Art Gallery of Ontario, 2011.
The artist wishes to thank the Ontario Arts Council for their generous
help.
December 6-28,
2014 Opening Reception: December 6, 2014, 2-5PM
Guided Tour: December
20th, 2014, 2-3PM
Sandra
Smirle String Theory: Potential Probabilities
This past summer, Smirle had the
opportunity to participate in a residency aboard a 120’ tall ship sailing the
waters of an Arctic archipelago just 10 degrees from the North Pole. Traveling
to such a remote location as Longyearbyen in Svalbard, the site of renowned
historical explorations, offered a unique opportunity to work in a stark and
seldom-seen landscape. Drawing on research material from her residency, Smirle’s
multidisciplinary work offers the viewer a unique, panoramic view of a partly
real, partly imaginary Arctic land-and seascape of converging and diverging
images
Smirle’s work has
been exhibited nationally as well as internationally, and is contained in
private and corporate collections in Canada, Australia and Europe. She is
currently completing her MFA at Concordia University in Montréal.
The artist wishes to thank the Arctic Circle Org., the Ontario Arts
Council and the Canada Council for their generous support.
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