A Matter of L and D by Barbara Balfour
My first inclination is to say something humourous, to deflect attention from the thing itself. I don’t want you to think it’s a matter of life and death, to use an overused expression, because it isn’t. Or if it does relate to life and death, then it’s about the space in which living and dying are so close as to be almost indistinguishable.
Text and Perception in Living & Dying by Caroline Seck Langill
Barbara Balfour’s recent body of work haunted me in unusual ways since I began to contemplate its meaning for this essay. Memories of the era, of my own coming of age resurfaced and implicated themselves as part of the extended cognitive system I was drawing upon in order to consider these canny lithographs.
Improper Human-ness by Patricia Reed
In their latest installation of cut-up of disfigured statuettes and accumulated objects of varying significance, Hadley+Maxwell have embraced the spirit of aphorism. Composed of fragments, interrupted surfaces and separations, the duo take up the timeless perplexities of human self-definition with whimsical experimentation.
Hadley + Maxwell: who can resist a Human? who doesn’t finger lies?
EXHIBITION DATES
SATURDAY 04 SEPTEMBER 2010 – SATURDAY 11 DECEMBER 2010
OPENING RECEPTION
THURSDAY 09 SEPTEMBER 2010, 8:00PM – 10:00PM
Barbara Balfour: Living & Dying
EXHIBITION DATES
SATURDAY 04 SEPTEMBER 2010 – SATURDAY 11 DECEMBER 2010
OPENING RECEPTION
THURSDAY 09 SEPTEMBER 2010, 8:00PM – 10:00PM
YYZ Art Collection Brooch
YYZ is excited to introduce Art Collection Brooches, handmade for YYZUNLIMITED by Elle Usui using surplus invitations for past YYZ exhibitions. Each brooch is meticulously handmade, one-of-a-kind, and specially packaged by the artist.
Sarah Jane Gorlitz & Wojciech Olejnik: Everything Next to Each Other
EXHIBITION DATES
SATURDAY 01 MAY 2010 – SATURDAY 12 JUNE 2010
OPENING RECEPTION
FRIDAY 30 APRIL 2010, 8:00PM – 10:00PM
Lorna Bauer: What Is Not But Could Be If
EXHIBITION DATES
SATURDAY 01 MAY 2010 – SATURDAY 12 JUNE 2010
OPENING RECEPTION
FRIDAY 30 APRIL 2010, 8:00PM – 10:00PM
Be But Could If Is Not What by Jacob Wren
There is a natural pleasure to smashing stuff. From a childhood rock through the window of the house that won’t let you play on it’s lawn, to the splintering guitar catharsis at the end of a sweaty concert, it is the gesture that enacts blind anger, blind rebellion, and that by enacting it connects it, for a moment, to a feeling of liberation. Later you will be forced by your parents to apologize to the man whose window you so rudely smashed. New guitars will have to be bought to replace the old ones. But for a moment you tasted freedom.