Jillan Valpy at The Ministry of Casual Living

Jillan Valpy

Sky Magnitude   

October 23^rd to 27^th, (just one short week.)

Please attend:

Closing Reception

Thursday, October 27^th 7 to 10 pm

(Dress warm)

Ministry of Casual Living

1442 Haultain St.

Jillan Valpy–September 2011–Artist of The Month

My background and passion for early ethnic costume design, textiles and handicraft prompted a material based practice where I play with the binary context of the masculine and feminine of materiality. My contemporary industrial structures feature rubber and metal that include a variety of other petroleum and industrial based media. The reuse of vast amounts of rubber alludes to the gluttonous waste of the oil industry and pokes fun at the absurdity and abundance of this rubber waste. Interestingly, reprocessed rubber is very textile like and funny in a comical sense. By further process and application of painting, sewing, weaving, and drawing, soft rubber forms emerge which are supported by exposed steel armature or architectural structures. Both experiential and object my work also references anthropomorphic figures and structures of a fantastical science fiction landscape. It is important that my work entertains and fascinates people. I like creating objects and installations in social environments for curiosity and interaction between people.
Jillanvalpy.blogspot.com

Jillan Valpy at Xchanges Balcony and Xchanges Gallery

JILLAN VALPY, CONVENTIONAL WISDOM

Xchanges Balcony and Gallery Exhibition

Opening Friday the 13th 7 to 11 pm, Open Stage Music and Refreshments

This one evening exhibition will feature work of conventional wisdom and odd materials to construct unique two and three dimensional rubber painting and sculpture installations. Imagine swimming through a painted rubber sculpture on the Balcony Gallery that spills over into Xchanges Gallery to find what is there?

Jillan’s use of recycled rubber concepts alludes to the gluttonous waste of the oil industry. We are surrounded by oil based products which appear around us everywhere and in everything. This exhibition pokes fun at the absurdity and abundance of this rubber waste by constructing innovative rubber art and interactive environments out of this highly viable and perfectly reusable material.