"Monumental" September 10- October 15 2009.
Projex-Mtl galerie is pleased to present MONUMENTAL an exhibition of photographs by JESSICA AUER, THOMAS KNEUBÜHLER, JACK PIERSON, SYLVIE READMAN and ANDREAS RUTKAUSKAS.
JESSICA AUER lives and works in Montréal where she obtained a Master’s degree in Studio Arts from Concordia University. Inspired by her intimate relationship with the outdoors, Jessica’s landscape photography is concerned with the development of cultural and natural sites of recreation. By photographing places that have a long-lived history, as well as sites that have been recently built or severely transformed, she produces images that provoke reflection on personal experience, cultural authenticity and collective memory of specific sites. She currently teaches photography at Concordia University in Montréal.
THOMAS KNEUBÜHLER was born in Solothurn, Switzerland. He received a Masters degree in Studio Arts from Concordia University in 2003. Kneubühler’s work often deals with the way technology affects and influences our lives. Surveillance, security and private property are issues that are often addressed in Kneubühler’s work. The most recent series titled ‘Electric Mountains’ documents the surreal landscapes that are the result of illuminating ski hills for night skiing. Kneubühler has exhibited recently at Lattitude 53 in Edmonton(solo), Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland, Dreisptizhalle, Basel, and Projex-Mtl Galerie in June-July of this year. A portfolio of his recent works has been published in Next Level UK photography magazine with a text by Nicholas Mavrikakis. He currently lives and works in Montréal Canada.
JACK PIERSON holds a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston 1984. His works includes photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings and artists books. His "Self-Portrait" series was shown in the 2004 Whitney Biennial and his works are collected by major museums worldwide. This year, Pierson’s solo exhibitions include: Jack Pierson Abstracts, Cheim & Read, New York, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga, Spain, Galleria Christian Stein, Milan and several group exhibitions including: A Tribute To Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, Stars!, Salon 94, New York, Arles Photofestival 09/Les Rencontres d'Arles Photographie, Flower Power, Villa Giulia - Centro di Ricerca Arte Attuale, Torino, Italy Location, Danziger Projects, New York, sh(OUT) - Contemporary Art and Human Rights, Culture and Sport Glasgow, Scotland, Chelsea Visits Havana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba Kids Behaving Badly, Clampart, New York, Just What Are They Saying, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, and From The Archives: 40 Years, 40 Projects, White Columns, New York.
Jack Pierson currently divides his time between his home and home in the Southern California desert near Joshua Tree National Park and New York.
SYLVIE READMAN has been active on the Québec visual art scene since the early 1980’s. Readman has always had a reflexive approach to photography by means of distancing the image subject matter from the viewer. Through the years she has explored different strategies such as overprinting, hybridizations, fragmentations to find her own vision and style resulting in very enigmatic landscapes. The works in the exhibition Monumental explore the peripheral zones of cities where nature and human presence meet in a kind of transitional area that is often disregarded. Readman recently had a solo exhibition of her recent works at Occurence entitled S’Absenter, resulting from a residency at Recoleta studio in Buenos Aires.
Readman received her BFA from the Université Laval 1981, and an MFA from Concordia University in 1988. She currently lives in St. Bruno, Québec and teaches Visual arts at l’Université du Québec à Montréal, UQÀM.
ANDREAS RUTKAUSKAS’ images capture the grandeur, the beauty of rugged, pristine wilderness. The pertinence of this work lies in the deliberate, subjective choice of photographing his manipulation, in choosing a specific viewpoint that has not yet been spoiled.
Andreas Rutkauskas is originally from Winnipeg, where he obtained a BFA from the University of Manitoba in 2003. In 2007 he completed his MFA at Concordia University, and currently lives and works in Montréal. Andreas has just completed a residency at the Gushal studio in Alberta and is now doing the residency The Wanderer at the Banff Center until November. His exhibition Suburb Beautiful at Projex-Mtl was recently reviewed in ARTnews magazine.
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