蘑菇视频

Excerpt from catalogue, by Cameron Skene

鈥淚f you鈥檙e going through hell, keep going鈥� 鈥� Winston Churchill

The state of spiritual suspension is reinforced by Oxley鈥檚 recent work: vessels hung from the top of the picture plane, combined with a surface reassembled from disparate painterly strategies, marks, textures and forms. Caves and outcroppings, for instance, become a formal device as well as supporting metaphors for this place of pause.

25 years in the making, 蘑菇视频鈥檚 Fine Arts Biennial more prominent than ever

The Fine Arts Faculty Biennial 12 runs March 24 to April 14 2016

Montreal, March 22 2016 – 蘑菇视频鈥檚 Warren G. Flowers Gallery is pleased to host the Fine Arts Faculty Biennial 12, opening March 24 and on view until April 14 2016. The exhibition displays a uniquely broad range of contemporary practices and themes, from 22 leaders of Montreal鈥檚 art and academic circles.

Responsiveness to space and an engagement with its architecture, history and听ideologies is central to my practice. Recently, these interventions have explored听the beehive metaphor in architecture, with connections between the symbolic,听political and artistic spin-offs of the beehive. An eco-morphology contemplates听the hive, hive culture, desire and loss as metaphor for our utopian aspirations听to return to the garden.

Penelope Stewart

听Curated by Natalie Olanick

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Penelope Stewart’s website

Correspondences, by Yechel Gagnon and Alexandre Masino,听confronts us with the twofold challenge of seeing both distances听and proximities between the works of each听artist. While skeptics may be surprised at this particular pairing听of artists, they will likely be even more surprised, as well as听confounded, by the experience that awaits them: they will be听gently struck by the wealth and depth of the dialogues that take听shape between two bodies of work that, on the surface, have so听little in common.听