Yesterday my dad and I took down our show "Under the Same Roof" at Amelia Douglas Gallery, moved some of my work to the VAG's Art Rental & Sales showroom, then came home to prep for ANOTHER installation in our neighborhood!
Kulla Laas, an Estonian photographer and curator currently completing an exchange program at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, has initiated a traveling exhibition space with Rundum Artist-Run Space (Tallinn, Estonia) called the Shoecase. Her final exhibition here is my installation Wish You Were Here! II.
"Via these
gallery cases Rundum actively relates to various public places, offers
artists possibilities to try out different ways of exhibiting art, to
work with various social environments, and the topic of occupying public
space."
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| Installation shot, photo credit: Kulla Laas |
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| Miniature Tree installation, photo credit: Kulla Laas |
The single tree, protected by its orange fence in Wish You Were Here! II represents
an ubiquitous place, found within Vancouver’s rapidly developing and
re-developing landscape. The resulting miniature work depicts a scene
that may or may not still exist, standing as a record of the
continuously changing cityscape. Originating from McNeil's February 2014
exhibition at Gam Gallery, this piece in Rundum Shoecase oscillates
between allusion and deļ¬nition, and the experience of the public and the
private. While the sculpture depicts a present and past, it is also a
souvenir and model of a possible future for its current site.
Located next to the railway near my house, with it's back to an empty lot caused by a suspected arson attack, this site-specific work is
placed in an urban landscape that is on the fringe of massive change.
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| Installation friends! photo credit: Ewan McNeil |
UP UNTIL THE MORNING of WEDNESDAY, DEC 16th
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| photo credit: Ewan McNeil |
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