XPACE Closing Reception

XPACE Summer Residency & The Beat and the Chorus at the Same Time - CLOSING RECEPTION

The XPACE Summer Residency came to an end this past Friday July 27th.  After a month of hard work our Residents got to show off what they created during their time here at XPACE. 

Krystina Plante's deeply personal work, Missing Links regarding her broken family tree is beautiful and haunting.

 Lee Aaron Wiesblatt Let's Hope We Don't Have Another Solaris Situation on Our Hands Here turned XBASE into a technological cave of wonder.

Mason Mummery's art slingshot had visitor's slinging paint-covered sculptures at canvases collaged in the artist's own drawings.

The Summer Resicency Show will be up until Saturday August 3rd. 

Hanna Hur's The Beat and the Chorus at the Same Time, in Window Space will be up until Saturday August 3rd.

- http://xpaceculturalcentre.blogspot.ca/2012/07/xpace-summer-residency-beat-and-chorus.html

XPACE RESIDENCY

XPACE RESIDENCY

XPACE Cultural Centre - 58 Ossington Avenue, Toronto

July 27th - August 4th, 2012

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday   12 - 6pm

Opening Reception July 27th, 2012  7 - 11pm

Artists in Residence: Krystina Plante, Mason Mummery, Lee Aaron Wiesblatt

 

New Body of Work: Missing Links, Krystina Plante

Drawing from personal experience and emotional tension, I look to find narratives within mundane objects or the events of everyday life. My most recent work has centered on the surrounding notions of collecting, the mundane, and the book as an art form. This residency has created an opportunity to divert from these themes and instead explore a topic which has been in suspension for some time. As much of my family has been adopted or displaced, I am left with a very small family core, which then dissipates into a vast area of unknowns, like dead nerve endings. It is this tremendous sense of anonymity and these evidently lost connections which has me longing for answers, resolution, and acceptance. It is vital to my artistic practice to remain emotionally vulnerable, as I feel it is crucial to express humanity through art.

Feature: Upcoming at XPACE

Feature:

Upcoming at XPACE

XPACE is housing a Residency for three recent OCADU grads for the month of July, we are very excited to see what these talented artists will come up with! Krystina and Lee are both Printmaking grads, and Mason is a Sculpture/Installation grad. They are using both the Main Space, as well as XBASE as their studios, and have been given 24/7 access. On the 27th they will be showing some of the work they've come up with in their time here. Rumor has it that there will be an art catapult!

Krystina Plante is actively involved in craft and zine culture, and works as the event coordinator for OCAD University's Annual Book Arts Fair. Her most recent work centres on the surrounding notions of collecting, the mundane, and the book as an art form.

Mason Mummery's figurative caricature sculptures are inspired by cartoons, satire and farce. Through explorations and axaggerations of the human subject, the caricature figures become a malleable portrait of humanity.

Lee Aaron Wiesblatt's interdisciplinary work is informed by narrative, the multiple, process, and experimentation. Dual interests in fine and vernacular art inform his developing practice.

Get all the latest Residency and XPACE updates on their Blog

Black Sheep Posters

Wicked poster designs for the upcoming Black Sheep show!!

Poster designed by Melissa Cormier

Poster designed by Ryan Reid Millard

Poster designed by Krystina Plante

Poster designed by Jimmy Brannen

Poster designed by Lee Aaron Wiesblatt