Graeme Patterson | Grudge Match
Karilee Fuglem | steady streams, living rooms

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 7 - 9 pm


 
GRAEME PATTERSON
Grudge Match

May 15 - September 5, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 7 - 9 pm
Related Programming: The Main Event, Thursday, May 6, 2010, 7 pm

Executed in Graeme Patterson's signature style, Grudge Match imagines a freestyle wrestling match between the artist and his long-lost childhood friend, Yuki.. Best friends at the age of 5, Patterson lost touch with Yuki once his friend returned to Japan four years later. Through sculptural installation and stop-motion animation, puppets of Patterson and Yuki as teenagers engage in a fictional match in a high school gymnasium.  A conflation of personal experience and emotional memory, the installation recreates and plays with Patterson's memories of his first best friend, exploring boyhood rivalry and the bonds of friendship.

Image credit: Graeme Patterson, Grudge Match, 2009, stop-motion animation still.



KARILEE FUGLEM
steady streams, living rooms

May 28 - August 22, 2010
Opening Reception & Artist's Talk: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 7 - 9 pm

Working with simple materials such as nylon monofilament and clear plastic, Montreal-based artist, Karilee Fuglem explores the intangible and the barely visible, giving form to that which is often overlooked. The weightlessness and organic nature of her work belies the labour-intensive process of hand-weaving and looping kilometer upon kilometer of thread into large-scale installations that alter the viewer's perception of space and movement through the gallery. In a site-specific exhibition for the Hansen Gallery, Fuglem responds to Rodman Hall and the surrounding area, referencing the natural world and exploring the history of the mansion and its inhabitants.

Image credit: Karilee Fuglem, Learning to Live on the Ground, 2008, nylon monofilament. Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay. Courtesy of Pierre-Francois Oullette art contemporain.




Rodman Hall Art Centre / Brock University
109 St. Paul Crescent, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 1M3
TEL 905.684.2925
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www.brocku.ca/rodmanhall

Gallery Hours
Tuesday & Wednesday: 11 am to 5 pm
Thursday: 11 am to 9 pm
Friday: 11 am to 5 pm

Saturday: 10 am to 5 pm

Sunday: 11 am to 5 pm
Closed Monday and statutory holidays.
Admission is free.

Contact: Danny Custodio, 905.688.5550 ext. 5802, dcustodio@brocku.ca

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