The McMaster Museum of Art presents:
FLOWERS and PHOTOGRAPHY
Curated by Carla Garnet
Organized in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Peterborough
Sara Angelucci
Barbara Astman
Suzy Lake
Sasha Yungju Lee
Dyan Marie
Lori Newdick
May 9 – August 17, 2013
Reception and Catalogue Launch: Saturday, July 20 from 2 - 4 pm
Flowers and Photography invites viewers to consider why flowers continue to be a favourite subject of women artists. Enlisting the garden subject as one that is reflective of contemporary theories about art, nature and the ordering of knowledge, the show features the art of Sara Angelucci, Barbara Astman, Suzy Lake, Sasha Yungju Lee, Dyan Marie and Lori Newdick.
In Regular 8, photo and video artist Sara Angelucci meticulously constructs a fictional archive of events that take place in park-like gardens using digital means to simulate the look of analog documents - or what we recognize as a snap shot. Senior artist Barbara Astman engages photography with new media to sequentially stage her allegorical black and white photomurals, nearsofar, which show the figure in the garden as emblematic of systems of gender perspectives and representation. Sasha Yungju Lee’s work reflects her experience of displacement and self. Her piece, In the Bosom, is essentially a blown up snap shot of her child, Zoe. This photo shows her daughter with arms opened to embrace the leaves and flowers, not unlike a contemporary vision of the mythological goddess Flora.
A pioneer in feminist performance for the camera, Suzy Lake took up photography in order to explore the politics of gender, the body and identity. Lake’s triptych, Peonies and the Lido, holds a mirror to the self as it tempts (and resists) the obsession with youthfulness. Her video, Dance to Life, avails flowers to re-enact the closing stages of a marriage as so much surplus emotion. Dyan Marie’s relational art practice includes photo-based work, as well as performance and publishing initiatives that reflect on contemporary cultural experience. Her Murmurs and Messages series comprises digitally developed images of flowers, in which those vines and plants are seeded with single word poems. Lori Newdick is known for her beautiful and seductive images that capture the space between herself and her subject. Her 2010-2012 Untitled Flowers series captures something akin to surrealism’s deconstructive formlessness.
Exhibition Review: Globe & Mail
LIST OF WORKS
Sara Angelucci
Regular 8 (Alan Gardens), 2009 Chromogenic print, 106.7 x 101.6 cm Courtesy of the artist
Regular 8 (Gairloch Garden), 2009 Chromogenic print, 106.7 x 101.6 cm Courtesy of the artist
Regular 8 (High Park), 2009 Chromogenic print, 158.8 x 100.3 cm Courtesy of the artist
Regular 8 (Wedding), 2009 Chromogenic print, 106.7 x 101.6 cm Courtesy of the artist
Barbara Astman
#2 nearsofar, 2000 / 2012 Digital print on archival paper, 44.7 x 110.5 cm Courtesy of the artist and Corkin Gallery, Toronto
#4 nearsofar, 2000 / 2012 Digital print on archival paper; 52.6 x 110.5 cm Courtesy of the artist and Corkin Gallery, Toronto
#6 nearsofar, 2000 / 2012 Digital print on archival paper; 43.2 x 110.5 cm Courtesy of the artist and Corkin Gallery, Toronto
#7 nearsofar, 2000 / 2012 Digital print on archival paper; 64.8 x 110.5 cm Courtesy of the artist and Corkin Gallery, Toronto
#10 nearsofar, 2000 / 2012 Digital print on archival paper; 51.3 x 110.5 cm Courtesy of the artist and Corkin Gallery, Toronto
Red Flowers Series #1 - 4, 1980-1981 Polaroid SX-70 images, 10.2 x 8.9 cm Courtesy of the artist and Corkin Gallery, Toronto
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Suzy Lake
Beauty at the End of the Season #7, 2004 (printed 2006) Colour gelatin print, 182.9 x 66 cm Courtesy of the artist and Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto
Beauty at the End of the Season #8, 2004 (printed 2006) Colour gelatin print; 182.9 x 66 cm Courtesy of the artist and Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto
Dance to Life, 1986 Courtesy of the artist
Dance to Life, 1986 (printed 2011) Colour giclée print, 29.2 x 40.9 cm Courtesy of the artist and Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto
Peonies and the Lido #7, 2002 (printed 2011) Colour gelatin print, triptych, each 127 x 94 cm Courtesy of the artist and Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto
Sasha Yungju Lee
In the Bosom, 2000 Colour print, 152.4 x 99.1 cm Courtesy of the artist
Lori Newdick
Untitled #1, 2010–2012 Lightjet glossy print mounted to plexi, mounted to dibond, 76.2 x 101.6 cm Courtesy of the artist and Corkin Gallery, Toronto
Untitled #2, 2010–2012 Lightjet glossy print mounted to plexi, mounted to dibond, 76.2 x 101.6 cm Courtesy of the artist and Corkin Gallery, Toronto
Untitled #3, 2010–2012 Lightjet glossy print mounted to plexi, mounted to dibond, 76.2 x 101.6 cm Courtesy of the artist and Corkin Gallery, Toronto
Untitled #5, 2010–2012 Lightjet glossy print mounted to plexi, mounted to dibond, 101.6 x 67.6 cm Courtesy of the artist and Corkin Gallery, Toronto |
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Dyan Marie
Murmur and Messages: Carry, 1997 Photo-based digital archival image, 27.9 x 83.8 cm Courtesy of the artist and Wynick Gallery, Toronto
Murmur and Messages: Entrance, 1997 Photo-based digital archival image, 27.9 x 83.8 cm Courtesy of the artist and Wynick Gallery, Toronto
Murmur and Messages: Linger, 1997 Photo-based digital archival image, 40.6 x 121.9 cm Courtesy of the artist and Wynick Gallery, Toronto
Murmur and Messages: Message, 1997 Photo-based digital archival image, 40.6 x 121.9 cm Courtesy of the artist and Wynick Gallery, Toronto
Murmur and Messages: Telling, 1997 Photo-based digital archival image, 27.9 x 83.8 cm Courtesy of the artist and Wynick Gallery, Toronto
Un-still Lives With Traffic: Bloor Gates, 2007 Archival digital print, Ed. 1/5, 40.6 x 121.9 cm Courtesy of the artist and Wynick Gallery, Toronto
Un-still Lives With Traffic: Boy Reading, 2007 Archival digital print, Ed. 2/5, 40.6 x 121.9 cm Courtesy of the artist and Wynick Gallery, Toronto
Un-still Lives With Traffic: Brothers and Sister, 2007 Archival digital print, Ed. 1/5, 40.6 x 121.9 cm Courtesy of the artist and Wynick Gallery, Toronto
Un-still Lives With Traffic: Girl Flying, 2007 Archival digital print, Ed. 1/5, 40.6 x 121.9 cm Courtesy of the artist and Wynick Gallery, Toronto
Un-still Lives With Traffic: Glow, 2007 Archival digital print, Ed. 1/5, 40.6 x 121.9 cm Courtesy of the artist and Wynick Gallery, Toronto
Un-still Lives With Traffic: Two, 2007 Archival digital print, Ed. 1/5, 40.6 x 121.9 cm Courtesy of the artist and Wynick Gallery, Toronto
Walks (Mist), 2008 Archival digital print, Ed. 1/5, 86.4 x 228.6 cm Courtesy of the artist and Michael Gibson Gallery, London
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