September 7 – October 8, 2011
Opening and our First Anniversary! *let them eat cake*: Sat, Sept 10, 2 – 4pm
TELEPHONE BOOTH GALLERY
3148 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario M6P 2A1
(The Junction, Dundas at St. John’s Rd.)
T: 647.270.7903
E: sharlene@telephoneboothgallery.ca
www.telephoneboothgallery.ca
Hours: Tues by appt., Wed and Sat 11-6, Thurs and Fri 11-7
SNEAK PEEK AT IMAGES IN EXHIBITION (more to come)
Possible Outcome is a body of work comprised of prints created using screenprint, linocut, collograph and lithographic processes. Influenced stylistically by fin-de-siècle art and literature, and by the domestic workings of her own family, Laura Peturson’s prints present a vision of childhood based in both reality and fiction. These works capture and examine the expectations and sentiments placed upon very young girls. Each print depicts a child or children engaged in introspective play, often with objects that are commonly viewed as feminine. In selected prints, the girls have been inserted compositionally into reproductions of 18th-century paintings. A toddler reads in front of a Jacques Louis David reproduction taped to the wall of her nursery. A little girl holds a shadow puppet as she stands amongst Ingres reproductions littered across the floor. These neoclassical paintings reference a heroic male ideal and present the girls with a differently gendered possibility from their surroundings. In addition to the narrative aspect of the work, the prints deal with formal elements, such as pattern, colour and the tension between illusory space and a flat, silhouetted aesthetic.
Laura Peturson received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art, New York in 2005 and a BFA from York University, Toronto in 2002. She lives and works in Callander, Ontario and is an Assistant Professor of Fine Art at Nipissing University, specializing in printmaking.
Working from a melding of memory and fantasy, Kasia Czarnota’s glass works are inspired by family relationships, childhood and the tiny but wondrous moments that make up a day in a young life. Kasia Czarnota is a sculptor concentrating primarily in the mediums of kiln cast and blown glass. She attended Sheridan College Institute’s Crafts and Design Glass Program and her sculptural practice involves image and object manipulation that play with glass’ various qualities, including granular delicacy on one level and unique transparency on the other. An award winning artist, Czarnota’s work was recently exhibited at the Cheongju International Craft Biennale in South Korea.