Trans-it/mit/fer/form explores ideas of communication and the transmission of ideas through the practice and production of art. This multidisciplinary group exhibition incorporates a variety of static and time based work to address the direct and oblique ways in which information is conveyed.
As each artist in the exhibition is linked by the fact of both their visual communication and presentation of information, the viewer is encouraged to re-examine the practice of art as an alternate form of expression. furthermore, the trajectory of how ideas and information are transmitted and subsequently interpreted becomes a pivotal point. Trans-it/mit/fer/form,as both an exhibition and collection of ideas, allows for five differing inflections on this ephemeral but omnipresent subject matter.
Artist Bios
Paul de Guzman
Paul de Guzman lives in Vancouver and has solo exhibitions in the fall of 2002 at Alternator Gallery in Kelowna, BC, and at Atelier Gallery in Vancouver, BC.
Iwona Majdan
Iwona Majdan lives in Montreal and conducts announced/unannounced performances, installations, interventions and gestures. She recently undertook a five-week intervention at Skol in Montreal entitled Waiting for Something to Happen.
Simon Patterson
Simon Patterson lives and works in London. Patterson was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1996, and exhibits at the Lisson Gallery in London.
Carl Skelton
Carl Skelton lives and works in New York City. He is currently exhibiting Kiss My Glow at White Box Gallery in New York and Maerkisches Museum /7 Hours TURM in Berlin. Will Is Was, an outdoor installation project, will be at the Art Gallery of Hamilton this summer.
Cheryl Sourkes
Cheryl Sourkes is a Toronto-based artist and curator. her works are included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Oakville Galleries, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
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