The Apartment
Projects
Field Work.
May - August, 2008
The Apartment is thrilled to present Field Work, a multigenerational exhibition of artworks influenced by the language of color field painting.
The artists in Field Work draw from their environment for inspiration and material to compose abstract works of art. Breaking free from the rectangular form of the canvas, this art pushes past traditional figure/field relationships. Highly formalized compositions are further activated through the insertion of found objects, encapsulating their material implications into oblique reflections of our contemporary built environment.
These works were chosen to create a poetic chronology of artists whose project expanded the field of painting, here beginning with shaped canvases from the mid 60s through collage and assemblage to recent abstract use of video. Field Work does not offer a clear survey or thesis about the development of abstraction over the past 40 years but gestures towards one possible lineage where abstract expression grows past it’s compositional roots into a project which abstracts materials and signs, realizing complex and layered expressions.
Field Work includes a mix of west coast and New York based artists including Michael Morris (Vancouver), Ian Wallace (Vancouver), Roy Kiyooka (Vancouver), Dorothea Rockburne (NY), Jessica Stockholder (NY), B Wurtz (NY), Arabella Campbell (Vancouver), Ranu Mukherjee (San Francisco), and Sylvain Sailly (Paris, living in Vancouver).
Field Work will be on exhibition from May 16th – July 20th. Please email us at info@theapt.ca to make an appointment to view this exhibition. Exhibition images, price list and artist information upon request.
We would like to thank the galleries that collaborated with us to bring together this exhibition project, Mary Henry courtesy of PDX Contemporary Art, Portland; Ian Wallace, Roy Kiyooka and Arabella Campbell courtesy of Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver; Jessica Stockholder courtesy of Mitchell, Innis and Nash Gallery, NY.
