For Immediate Release

David Eustace: Project for Calendar Studies
March 31 ­ April 30, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 6:30-8:30 pm
Artist will be present at opening.

Toronto, ON ­ March 2011 ­ Open Studio is pleased to present Project for
Calendar Studies, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn, New York-based artist David
Eustace from March 31 ­ April 30, 2011. The exhibition is accompanied by a
text by Slocan Valley, BC-based curator Deborah Loxam-Kohl.

Project for Calendar Studies includes large canvas monoprints created by
hanging the canvases at three-month intervals along the wall of a tidal
industrial canal in Brooklyn. Symbols, notations and references used to
account for and keep track of time‹such as lunar phases, tide tables and
constellation movement‹were stenciled, photo-etched, and screenprinted on
the canvas beforehand. Created primarily with oxides, such as raw iron
filings, these images were then ³developed² by the rise and fall of the tide
during the installation; once removed from the canal and returned to the
artist¹s studio, each piece was then reinterpreted in light of the marks
made on the canvas while in the canal.

Eustace¹s large monoprints document rhythms that underwrite our existence,
such as tides and the spinning of the earth; the exhibition focuses the
viewer¹s attention on these rhythms, and asks them to consider their
relationship to them. Working from an open-air rooftop studio, his practice
employs experimental print techniques to record and recast natural rhythms,
such as the tides, the movements of the stars or the cyclical nature of the
seasons. His work references these rhythms both as subject and as part of
the process of making the work. Using site-specific installations as both
technical and conceptual points of departure, Eustace invites viewers to
explore the often paradoxical ways in which we ³know² and encounter our
environment. According to Loxham-Kohl¹s accompanying essay, Eustace¹s work
³requires us to access the shared knowledge of our surroundings and through
the contrast in local environment/external environment creates a reference
point from which we are able to recognize where we are and are not capable
of effecting change.²

David Eustace grew up in Toronto and currently lives and works in Brooklyn,
New York. He has exhibited his work in both Canada and the United States;
this is his first solo exhibition in Toronto. For high-resolution images or
interviews, please email sara@openstudio.on.ca. To download a copy of the
essay, including full artist and author biographies, visit
http://www.openstudio.on.ca/images_site/david-eustace.pdf.

Showing Concurrently
George Gilmour Members¹ Gallery ­ Peter Hendrick: Backstage at the Ballet
Print Sales Gallery ­ Susan Cunningham: On Thin Ice
and Rochelle Rubinstein: Marginalia

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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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