You are invited to view Cardinal: photographs inspired by textile practice an exhibition of new work by UK artist Lesley Bricknell on Poplar Gallery.Online (formerly Poplar ArtCraft). Bricknell stains, marks and manipulates reclaimed garments creating photographs that are at once haunting and starkly beautiful.
poplar: two years, a retrospective exhibition featuring work exhibited over the last two years on Poplar ArtCraft continues until April 18, 2009.
You are invited to view poplar: two years, a retrospective exhibition featuring work exhibited over the last two years on Poplar ArtCraft, including: Amanda Byers, Katrina Chaytor, Un-jin Cho, Abigail Doan, Mary Kim, Rory MacDonald, Bettina Matzkuhn, Stephanie Rozene, Sara Washbush and Janice Wu.
A new exhibition goes online in gallery2 March 7, 2009.
Un Jin Cho, Undecipherable
You are invited to view Vancouver Ceramic artist Mary Kim’s Monster Folio on Poplar ArtCraft, online gallery of visual art.
“This collection of monsters stemmed from an interest in fantasy role-playing books, which created a list of intriguing creatures that were both familiar and alien. They reminded me of the realm of magic and imagination during childhood.”
You are invited to view a new exhibition at Poplar ArtCraft featuring the work of Canadian artists Rory MacDonald and Katrina Chaytor. The Decorative Device was originally curated by Joanne Marion for Esplanade Art Gallery in Medicine Hat, Alberta. She writes, “The new ceramic works of Katrina Chaytor and Rory MacDonald embody two distinctive approaches to the enormous scope of ceramic decoration. Yet the work of each refers back to the traditional and historical aspects of decoration and forward to the impact of 21st centurydigital technology and image inundation on an age-old craft form.”
Carole Baillargeon’s exhibition Winter continues in gallery2 until September 12.
You are invited to view Winter, a new online exhibition in gallery2 at Poplar ArtCraft. Winter is one of four installation/performances in the series Clothing/Landscapes in Four States by Quebec artist Carole Baillargeon.
Each installation/performance in the series “…represents a season through the evocation of a fragment of landscape and seasonal activities. The fusion of landscape elements and clothing is carried out through actions realized by performers from various disciplines, i.e., dance, theatre, the circus, and music.”
Abigail Doan’s Craft as Eco-Agency continues until August 1, 2008 in gallery1.
You are invited to view Craft as Eco-Agency, a new online exhibition in gallery1 at Poplar ArtCraft. New York artist Abigail Doan creates “…tactile maps, floating topographies, and in situ souvenirs that highlight the delicate nature of our environs via geomorphic agency and environmental tinkering.”
Bettina Matzkuhn’s Navigating continues until June 13, 2008.
Poplar ArtCraft is pleased to present Navigating, an exhibition of work by Vancouver artist Bettina Matzkuhn in gallery2.
Matzkuhn writes, “Embroidery is a language of extreme detail with the possibility of exaggeration. Cartography shares this history and aesthetic as every map is an edited version of geography and events, and is subject to further revision. In this exhibit, I am creating markers in a personal geography made of thread and metaphor.”
You are invited to view Crafting the Perfect Dinner Party with Decorative Diplomacy: A Locke Rozene Project a new exhibition on Poplar ArtCraft in gallery1.
“Crafting a Perfect Dinner Party with Decorative Diplomacy,” (A Locke Rozene Project) represents dinner settings created around Lady Laura Bush’s dinner party menus for six past heads of state’s visits to the White House. The place settings are a response to the imaginative visual reconstruction of the food served at these events. Additionally Locke and Rozene are looking at the historical objects held in the White House Collection. Rozene has pulled out ornament that she found appealing, which works with the surface and has powerful historical content. Locke has created the setting for the dinnerware. It is displayed in consumerist fashion on the walls as if in a department store. Cut paper, referencing current trends in department store displays is installed in the space along with an empty table, except for the menus. No chairs are present. The shelves have prices demonstrating the wealth or deficit of the visiting head of state’s country. Laura’s menus (image on the menu is of the State Dinning Room), placed on the empty table, contrast the overly ornamented patterns and embellishments derived from objects in the White House and popular culture in America.
Nara Guichon Art-Textile Atelier continues in gallery2 until March 14.