Carrion
The Woodpile
Collective
May 18 to June 16,
2012
Opening Friday, May 18, 7pm
Deluge Contemporary Art
636 Yates Street, Victoria, BC
Exhibition Hours: Wed to Sat, 12 to 5
pm
For the large scale installation Carrion, The Woodpile Collective transforms Deluge Contemporary Art into a multimedia outpost broadcasting from an abandoned cabin in the primeval west coast rainforest. Dense calligraphic codes, mutable cartography and the tracery of strange habitation combine with emanations of mysterious flora and fauna in transmissions from the past and future.
The Woodpile Collective (Blythe Hailey,
Sean McLaughlin, Shawn O'Keefe) creates works that are both fantastic
and familiar. Citing varied influences from traditional and
contemporary art production -- especially the confluence of
abstraction and decomposition to be found where nature abuts urban
culture -- the process of their collaboration is free-flowing and
always open to one another's mediation. As the collective steps up to
the canvas it paints as one: six hands and three minds grappling in
the moment and processing each other's marks. Its artistic output
unfolds as a conversation between friends. The Woodpile Collective's
work can be found in both conventional gallery settings, public and
private collections, and unexpected public art drops throughout the
city of Victoria and beyond.
Contact: Deborah de Boer, 250 385 3327, delugeart@shaw.ca
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