For immediate release September 10, 2003

Kelly Mark

We are pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new photographic and video works by Kelly Mark.

Intersecting, parallel, angled, drooping, black and white, these are the lines of Mark’s Bluesky series; composed of black electrical wires and the white tailings of airplanes. In contrast, Broken Line is a series of road images; more accurately disrupted painted road lines. These are images one sees on a daily basis but are brought to the viewer’s attention, making one more aware of their everyday surroundings.

Mark has been the subject of several exhibitions over the past year. In May, she presented recent work at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, as part of her British debut. Work on exhibition included: The Glow House #2, Sniff, War Pigs as well as several interventions and public performances around the city completed in Mark’s subtle style. This summer Mark presented Hiccup, a seven channel video, in The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery exhibition, Stretch, curated by Eugenio Valdes Figueroa and Keith Wallace, which included artists from Canada, USA, Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala, Colombia and Brazil. Also at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, during the annual Power Ball fundraiser, Mark presented Demonstration, a public performance were guests and passer-bys were confronted with protesters - protesting nothing. In August, WFMU in New York City recently broadcasted the entire I Really Should… cd (running time 58 min.) Upcoming, Mark will be included in various exhibitions throughout the USA, including New York, Houston, Stowe and Container at Real Art Ways in Hartford Connecticut, which opens in October.

Other Exhibition News – September & October

Kim Adams opens Recent Works at St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, August 28 – October 5; Models and Drawings at the Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax 9 - 20 September and in the Contemporary Project Series, Kim Adams: Cycle Project at the Art Gallery of Hamilton were The Gift Machine and Toaster Wagon will be on view. Also, Adams is taking part in City Utopias in Contemporary Art, Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen, Germany.

David Askevold opens What is Church? And Two Hanks at Articule in Montréal, Québec, September 6 – October 12. Askevold has also been invited to participate in the Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon 2003, It Happened Tomorrow, September 18 – January 4, 2004. Askevold will be exhibiting several of his recent large digital photos on canvas.

Dianne Bos is curating and has work included in In the Light of: Six Contemporary Artists Explore the Legace of William Henry Fox Talbot the the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery to coincide with Natural Magic: William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) and the Invention of Photography, September 7 – November 2.

Paul Butler: my mad skillz, at the Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Manitoba, September 6 – October 25, Butler will be presenting collage works from the Art Ads, Perfect 10, and Positive Mental Attitude series. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue

Cora Cluett: Recent Work New Paintings, 13 September – 9 November Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia. The work for the exhibition was produced while Cluett was a resident at the AGNS this past summer. The work will be on view at the Wynick/Tuck Gallery in November.

Angela Leach: Shimmy, October 18 – November 23, Cambridge Galleries, Queen’s Square, Cambridge, Ontario. The exhibition includes new large scale work.