The Apartment
Projects
Andrew Dadson, The Baby Still Has Oil in His Ears. Nov. – Feb., 2009
The Apartment is pleased to present The Baby Still Has Oil in His Ears an exhibition of new works by artist Andrew Dadson. Receiving his BFA from ECIAD in 2003, Andrew was early known as a “provocateur” challenging boundaries of what is acceptable social activity and how this behavior is legislated. In questioning these basic tenets, Dadson makes visable social inequalities that are then embedded in a critical commentary on the means and materials of cultural expression.
Dadson has often used the activities of urban youth culture as a starting point for his conceptual art practice. In recent work there has been a nostalgic heroism performed through the actions of graffiti as a formal language for making art; living out the escapades of an “action painter”, climbing tall buildings, imposing a monochromatic paint-over (a common method for obliterating graffiti) on the suburban landscape, and likewise prodigiously coloring a crayon scrawl which is then covered with a layer of oppressive black, the irrational and charged almost restrained by this contemporary rationalization.
For The Baby Still Has Oil in His Ears Dadson will show new works in which his exploration of sociopolitical borders has become increasingly international. Still working to infiltrate modernist forms of artistic production, Dadson has recently imported Iraqi voters ink to work on canvas and set about modeling a suite of colorful marbleized rubber bullets, pocket sized Pollocks molded into a playful but repressive object. Andrew Dadson has exhibited extensively including solo exhibitions at Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, and Gallerie Frano Noero, Turin, along with numerous important group exhibitions including projects at Murray Guy, New York, Saide Bronfman Centre, Montreal and The Power Plant, Toronto.
Please join us for an opening reception for The Baby Still Has Oil in His Ears Fri, Nov 28th, from 7-10pm. The exhibition will be available for view by appointment through February 2009.
