"The Last Picture Show "
Kristina Kudryk's LAB exhibition uses the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria as the basis for three large format paintings that address notions of history, collecting, picture making, and the emergence of cross cultural forms. To produce this show, the artist worked from source material gathered during a visit to the Gallery in 2009. During this trip, Kudryk searched the AGGV's archives, vaults, library, and data bank creating her own personal collection of photos, sketches, and photocopies documenting the gallery. Treating this secondary collection as fodder for her work, the artist further strips these sources down, pulling out visual information and cues and then finally reordering and reworking these fragments on the canvas. The result is a set of paintings that highlight and tease out the nature of picture making and the role of the institution as bastion of taste, aesthetics, and power. These three canvases will be presented in the Lab space alongside the source material that was used in their creation.
This show is fantastic! Really worth checking out. I'm beyond excited to see these paintings in the LAB.
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