For Immediate Release

Kristie MacDonald: Home and Away
February 17 ­ March 26, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 17, 2011, 6:30-8:30 pm
Artist will be present at opening.

Toronto, ON ­ February, 2011 ­ Open Studio is pleased to present Home and
Away, a solo exhibition by Toronto-based artist Kristie MacDonald from
February 17 to March 26, 2011. The exhibition is accompanied by a text by
Toronto-based artist and writer Jen Hutton.

Combining installation, printmaking, sculpture ­ and even a fully
functioning printing press installed in a set of dresser drawers ­
MacDonaldıs Home and Away explores the personal archive, while referencing
institutional collections through archival and musicological materials. Home
and Away incorporates two installation pieces that are premised on that
humble reminder of holidays past, the postcard. The work begins from
postcards that MacDonald has found and purchased from flea markets; in
MacDonaldıs hands, the postcards become not only reminders of vacations in
faraway places, but meditations on the public/private nature of their
messages, potential sites for forgeries and fakes, and objects that channel
our propensity to continually reconstruct meaning in remembered events.
According to Huttonıs accompanying essay, MacDonald ³reinscribe[s] meaning
to these cards by filling in the blanks that they are unable to fill on
their own.²

Kristie MacDonald holds a BFA from York University, where she studied visual
art and art history. She is currently a candidate for the Masters of
Information degree at the University of Toronto, specializing in Archival
Studies, and devotes a significant portion of her time to Museum Studies.
This is her first solo exhibition in Toronto. To download a copy of the
essay, including full artist and author biographies, please visit
http://www.openstudio.on.ca/images_site/macdonald-brochure.pdf. For
high-resolution images or interviews, please email sara@openstudio.on.ca.

Showing Concurrently :
George Gilmour Membersı Gallery ­ Theresa Morin: Recent Prints on Clay and
Paper 
Print Sales Gallery ­ Landscape in Relief: featuring Pamela Dodds, Christine
Koch, and Eva Pietzcker

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Open Studio gratefully acknowledges the support of The City of Toronto
through the Toronto Arts Council, The Canada Council for the Arts and the
Ontario Arts Council.  Open Studio also acknowledges the generous support of
its members and numerous foundations, corporations and individuals.

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Open Studio
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