Past Exhibitions
2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 1995 - 2000
Mitch Robertson
Vacations,
2001
Jan Wade
Home and Native
Land, 2001
Shinobu Akimoto
from IKEA Living
Project Series, 1999-2000
Quoting Commercialism
Curator: Chris Reid
Quoting Commercialism features work by Canadian artists Shinobu Akimoto (Toronto), Greg A. Hill (Ottawa), Mitch Robertson (Toronto) and Jan Wade (Vancouver).
Quoting Commercialism, curated by Chris Reid, endeavours to reveal how, and to what extent, four artists from different cultural backgrounds construct their individual personas and exert their identities within a multicultural, consumerist society. Using puns and play they offer a cross cultural perspective on the influence of media and advertising in the age in which we live. The result of Reid's inquiry is an exhibition of work that is wrought with wit, irony and guile.
The common thread of Quoting Commercialism is that each artist employs aspects of consumer culture, through found objects and ready-mades in their work. Everything from facsimiles of packaging, souvenirs, and catalogue pages to the actual items themselves make their way into the exhibition. At the same time, they use different aspects of the promotional industry in distinctly different ways and for markedly different purposes. This exhibition includes a diverse range of media including sculpture, drawing, and digital photographs.
Quoting Commercialism was co-produced with the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba.
Greg A. Hill
Cereal box canoe,
2000
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