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ArtClothText has moved - PLEASE UPDATE YOUR LINKS

ArtClothText is now hosted at http://mackenziefrere.com/artclothtext

The new blog features two new pages (still under construction) including VIDEO, where you will find the latest in the Video at your leisure… series, and FEATURED showcasing the talents of emerging artists, craftspeople and designers. Submissions for either page will be accepted at any time.
LINKS to artist web pages, galleries museums, arts venues, publications and schools will be transferred to the new blog over the next few weeks. If a link to your website or blog appeared on the original ArtClothText site it will likely make its way onto the new platform. Please let me know if a link to your website or blog has disappeared as it is possible that I will miss a few. (Links to websites or blogs that have not been updated in the last six months will be deleted.

Subscribers to the old ArtClothText may re-subscribe using the RSS feed buttons on the right side bar. ArtClothText with posts older than September 16, 2009 will remain at http://artclothtext.blogspot.com until the end of the year when it will be deleted.

Finally, thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone for reading, commenting, contributing, forwarding and linking to this blog over the last two years! Your talent, curiosity and enthusiastic support continues to make
ArtClothText better and better with every post!

Warmly, Mackenzie Frère

Interview with Scott Conarroe

Patio Set, Thomasville GA, 2008

Photographer Scott Conarroe was recently interviewed by Justin Mah for Canadian Art Magazine.

Hitting the open road has long served as a useful way of renewing the mundane. And it’s precisely how Scott Conarroe created a contemplative, elegiac examination of the North American rail system in “By Rail,” his first solo exhibition at Toronto’s Stephen Bulger Gallery. (A touring exhibition and catalogue of “By Rail” will open at the Art Gallery of Windsor in October 2009.) Conarroe’s suite of 10 large-format colour photographs were acquired over the course of an eight-month road trip in his 1981 Chevrolet van, a journey which began in Dawson Creek, where he grew up and learned to drive, and ended in Toronto, where he now lives.

Read the interview HERE

Video at your leisure...

James Turrell - Goldstein Skyspace/Roden Crater Project from Rindermulch on Vimeo.

Compulsive Viewing

Artist Tara Bursey’s show ‘paperwork/foodwork is currently on show at Poplar Online.  One of my favourite pieces is ‘shrimplace’ pale pink shrimps enmeshed together like a doiley.  It seems to me to hint at craft practices once traditionally associated with women.  Crochet, lacemaking - repetitious, labour intensive, domestic.  Tara’s choice of food as artworks is an interesting one.  Surely the refusal or rationing of food is a position of power and control.  Manageing the ‘unmanageable’?  A British artist who appears to have similar concerns is Kirsty Hall. 

 'Quiver' Kirsty Hall shown at 'Prick Your Finger', London (2009)

In her work she also deals with repetition and obsession using pins, knots, burnt matches.  Her ‘Pin Series’ began in 2001 as performance and is ongoing in such sculptural pieces as ‘Scatter’ and ‘Quiver’ (2006) in which the sheer weight of pins affects the fabric which supports them.  For me there is a fine dividing line in the work of both these artists.  When, exactly, does an interest, idea or concern become an obsession or evident as obsessional or obsessional compulsive behaviours?  As creative people I feel we all have obsessive traits otherwise how is the artwork nurtured, sustained or finalized?  I have no immediate answers just a fascination with these artworks.

Submitted by Lesley Bricknell

Anders Ruhwald: Nästan Allting at Galleri IngerMolin

Anders Ruhwald: Nästan Allting

Opening Reception this Saturday between 12 and 4 pm.

Galleri IngerMolin
Kommendörsgatan 24
114 48 Stockholm
Sweden
+46 (0) 852800830
www.galleriingermolin.se

Anders Ruhwald WEBSITE

Contextural Summer Residency Exhibition on Now!

After another great summer of working in the Fibre studios at the Alberta College of Art and Design, the participants of the 2009 Contextural Summer Residency would like to invite you to an exhibition of diverse fibre art works.

Contextural is a community of textile artists fostering a cooperative creative environment in support of the production of new artistic works.

Tara Bursey on Poplar Gallery.Online

You are invited to view Tara Bursey's paperwork/foodwork on Poplar Gallery.Online

My work employs the use of repetition to create dysfunctional objects. Through object-making, installation and two-dimensional work, I often explore the formal possibilities of repetition through the creation, destruction and re-creation of pattern, objects and systems. These works address a range of subjects, from obsessive-compulsive behaviors and body anxiety to workplace drudgery to meditation and ritual. READ MORE

Meghan Price's, Acting Like Starlings continues in gallery2 until October 16.

Polar Gallery.Online showcases the work of craftspeople and artists working in all disciplines. Email info@mackenziefrere.com for information on how to submit your work.