Vernissage: Thursday, October 30 at 6 pm
Exhibition: October 31 to November 22, 2003
Artist’s Talk: Friday, November 7 at 7:30 pm
Exhibition Press Release:
The exhibition, Transmission, features new works by Patrick Bureau (wood and porcelain sculpture) and Micheline Durocher (digital photography). Both artists deal with notions of communication and play that derive from early gendered experiences. Using repetition and visual motifs, they make visible what is invisible and unnamed.
Patrick Bureau’s intricately crafted sculptures resemble oversized sophisticated toys, obsessively assembled. Strewn on the floor like childhood building blocks, bearing titles such as Perpetual Motion Machine and Time Machine #2, they appear to be components of fantastic mechanisms that, once set into motion, would burrow through space and time.
In Reading Lessons, Micheline Durocher’s series of large-format digital photographs portray tattoo-like markings embedded in and on the artist’s neck and skin. The markings are recognizable as seemingly innocent illustrations from children’s schoolbooks. Here however, the images suggest a disturbance in communication, in the ability to speak. Durocher’s deliberate, staged gestures seek to expel the childhood images from an internal vocabulary to the surface of her body.
Patrick Bureau’s sculptures have been exhibited nationally and internationally. His work is in a number of private and public collections, including the Musée du Québec. Bureau received a BFA in Art Education from Concordia University as well as a BFA in Ceramics from the Alberta College of Art & Design. He currently teaches ceramics at the Visual Arts Center.
Micheline Durocher has presented her work across Canada including recent solo exhibitions at Gallery 44 in Toronto and Vu in Quebec. Her work has been collected in both private and public collections. She earned an MFA degree from Concordia University. She currently teaches in the Fine Arts department of Bishop’s University and the Visual Arts Centre.