Author Archives: dave
Passage video in the Festival of (In)appropriation, Los Angeles, Seattle, Edmonton, Brooklyn, 2014
The Festival of (In) appropriation, sponsored by the Los Angeles Filmforum, premiered with a sold-out show on Feb.16, 2014 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The festival then screened in Seattle at Northwest Film Forum on March 13, 2014, in Edmonton at Metro Cinema on April 3, 2014, and in Brooklyn at the Spectacle Theatre on […]
Purchases by Cenovus Energy Inc.
May, 2013: Cenovus Energy Inc. of Calgary purchased State of Flux 14 and State of Flux 15 for their corporate art collection.
Purchases by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
April, 2013: The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada recently purchased two works, State of Flux 3 and State of Flux 7, for their Fine Art Collection for the purpose of Canadian art representation abroad.
State of Flux, solo exhibit at Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Ottawa, ON, January 9 – February 9, 2013
Opening reception on Friday January 11th from 5:30-9 pm, and artist’s talk on Sunday January 27th at 2 pm, 2401 Bank St., Ottawa. Installation Views
Wave Patterns was screened in Toulouse, France as part of Traverse Vidéo 2013.
The festival ran from March 13 -29, 2013, and Wave Patterns was screened as part of a program called “Vidéos du Québec” at Musée des Abattoirs on March 16th 2013. Festival Website Program or PDF
Wave Patterns at the 31st International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) in Montreal, 2013.
Wave Patterns was screened as part of the 31st International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) in Montreal, March 14-24, 2013, in the section “Arts médiatiques – Diagonales”. http://www.artfifa.com Program
State of Flux, River Suite, Wave Patterns (2012)
Several new bodies of work in photography and video dwell in the transitional, liminal spaces between natural and built environments, abstraction and representation, photography and painting, nature and culture. The State of Flux photographs, River Suite photo-work and Wave Patterns video all employ water imagery within a conceptual framework to investigate the intersections between these dualities. As in my previous projects […]
Flashcards at Nuit Blanche Ottawa (2012)
Flashcards, a new collaborative video work by Cheryl Pagurek and Michèle Provost, premièred as part of Nuit Blanche Ottawa 2012, Ottawa’s first all-night art festival on September 22nd, 2012. Flashcards is a two-channel video installation that invites viewers of all ages to participate in a playful game of word/image association. Drawing from its initial location in the […]
Wave Patterns in Modern Fuel’s Square Pegs V video screening: August 15, 2012 in Kingston, Ontario and at AKA Gallery in Saskatoon, September 21, 2012.
Wave Patterns (see video still in the press release) will be screened as part of Modern Fuel Gallery’s Square Pegs V video screening. The hour long program of twelve artists from Eastern Ontario and the Prairies will then be screened at AKA Gallery in Saskatoon on September 21. Wave Patterns will be seen in Ottawa as part of my solo show, State of Flux, at Patrick Mikhail Gallery in January […]
Local Flora, group exhibit at Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON, June 29-Aug 18, 2012. Opening reception: Friday June 29, 8 pm
The High Value Targets photographs appear in the group exhibit Local Flora, looking at how metaphors and concepts can be articulated through representations of plant and tree life in the work of nine regional artists.
Patrick Mikhail Editions
Two images from a new photographic series, State of Flux, appear in Patrick Mikhail Editions. In-house exhibit February 15 to March 4, 2012, Patrick Mikhail Gallery; Papier 12 Art Fair, Montreal, April 2012; Toronto International Art Fair, October 2012 Working on Currents led to several new bodies of work in video and photography. State of Flux, a series […]
Public Art commission: Currents video display at Marketplace transit station, Ottawa (2011)
See acknowledgements at bottom of page. Ottawa – May 25, 2011. The Public Art Program is delighted to announce the successful implementation of Currents by Cheryl Pagurek. The permanent video installation is the first of its kind to enter the City of Ottawa’s fine art collection, and is unique to Ottawa as the first permanent exterior […]
Growing Pains and High Value Targets at Patrick Mikhail Gallery
High Value Targets, a new photographic series, and Growing Pains, a new video, were shown at Patrick Mikhail Gallery. Jan 8 to Feb 8, 2010. Patrick Mikhail Gallery 2401 Bank Street, Ottawa. 613 746 0690
Purchase by the City of Ottawa
September 2010: The City of Ottawa purchased High Value Target 1: Clear to engage for its permanent public art collection.
3-person exhibit at Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery
The Reflection light boxes and Flow video floor projection appeared in the exhibit Losing It at Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, with work by Kirtley Jarvis and Mary-Anne Wensley, Halifax, NS, from August 14 – October 3, 2010.
Growing Pains and High Value Targets (2009)
Growing Pains is a two-channel video exploration of simultaneous micro and macro perspectives combining the opposite extremes of intimate recordings of a season of gardening, with contemporary military tracking footage from Iraq. From the discovery of tender sprouts emerging from the snow, to the taming of wild growth and the handling of pests, weather and encroaching […]
Flow and Reflection at Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, 2009
A solo exhibit at la Maison de la culture du Plateau Mont-Royal featured the Flow video floor projection and the Reflection lightboxes, curated by Gaëlle Morel as part of le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2009, September 4th – October 4th 2009.
Toronto International Art Fair 2009
Patrick Mikhail Gallery, in booth 716, presented new large-scale photographic works from the new series High Value Targets, and the new video Growing Pains, October 22 – 26, 2009. For more information on TIAF, visit http://www.tiafair.com/
Purchases by Foreign Affairs Canada
April, 2008: The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada recently purchased three works, Reflection series #1, #2 and #7, for their Fine Art Collection for the purpose of Canadian art representation abroad. These works are in the collection of Canada House, London, UK.
Flow, Reflection, and Passage Installation at Ottawa City Hall Art Gallery (2008)
A solo exhibit at Ottawa City Hall Art Gallery featured Flow, a new video projected onto the floor, the Reflection series images presented as transparencies in light boxes, the Passage video, and the Light series light boxes, June 6 to July 13, 2008.
Flow (2008)
Flow, a multi-layered video, is projected down from the ceiling onto a white screen on the floor so that viewers’ spatial experience is integral to the work. We circulate around the piece, viewing it from all sides as one would walk around the edges of a large puddle of water, looking into its depths. Upside-down […]
Reflection (2006-2008)
The eight images in the Reflection series layer simultaneous narratives of different times and places. Attracted to the “world within a world” quality of reflections in pooled water, I photographed reflected houses, trees and streets, appearing upside-down as they emerge from the flat plane of snow or pavement surrounding the puddle. The upside-down reflections of the neighborhood […]
Group exhibit at Women Made Gallery in Chicago
The video Passage was presented as part of Tradition and Transformation: Art by Jewish Women, a group exhibit curated by Beth Shadur at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL, May 23-June 19, 2008. For more information visit http://www.womanmade.org Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL.
Passage (2007)
Building on the concerns of the photo-based Light series and the video Friday Morning, Passage evokes several layers of time and place through video imagery and sound. Separate yet connected narratives unfold: Present-day footage follows richly coloured light and shadow patterns appearing inside and outside my house throughout the course of the day, from the cool blue-purples of morning light […]
Friday Morning (2006)
Developed directly from the concerns of the photo-based Light series, Friday Morning, a five-minute looping video, evokes multiple layers of time and place through video imagery and sound. Three different sites and time periods intersect, creating multiple, simultaneous narratives. Moving patterns of light and shadow on an Ottawa street one summer are layered with black and white historical […]
Light (2005)
Three duratrans transparencies in light boxes from the Light series explore our varied perceptions of time by digitally interweaving photographs of light and shadow patterns observed around a house through the day, with old black and white photographs from an earlier generation. These works contrast our daily, even hourly awareness of time elapsing, with a sense of […]
Two Albums (2005)
A photo-installation from 2005, Two Albums features sixteen digitally altered photographs exhibited as large, colour LightJet prints. The images are paired and presented in two ways, offering viewers different modes of engaging with the work. In four works, the paired photographs are mounted back to back in a frame and suspended from the gallery ceiling so that viewers […]
Girl (Prefix Photo, 2004)
Girl, an artist’s project that appeared in the May 2004 issue (#9) of Prefix Photo, is a double-sided, die-cut insert that is bound between the regular pages of the magazine. The insert situates the intimacy of personal photography – snapshots intended for family use – within the public context of mass distribution. A full page of cover […]
Impositions (2002)
The fifteen large photographs in Impositions have had central shapes physically cut out and removed from them. The cut-out shapes are patterns culled from the public, commercial sphere, and then imposed on the photographs. The remaining periphery of each image is framed between two pieces of Plexiglas, allowing a view through the hole to the wall behind. […]
Balancing Act (2001 – 2002)
Balancing Act is an interactive multiples project that invites viewers to construct three-dimensional blocks out of printed, photographic images die-cut and scored into flat pattern shapes. The block patterns are printed double-sided, offering a choice as to which image will face outwards. The images represent a range of moments from our everyday experiences of public and […]
Cut-Outs (2001)
In the Cut-Outs series, landscape photos, family snapshots and news images were cut into the shapes of commercial packaging patterns, disrupting the familiar rectangular format we expect of a photograph and mediating our perceptions of the images. The pattern shapes carry broader references to marketing, consumerism, and mass production of multiples, while they also refer to everyday […]
Coverage (1995)
Exploring the idea of home as a construction of personal identity, the three photographs in the Coverage series document news images projected over an installation of a re-created living room. This work is the site of intersection and interplay of a series of convergent concepts, including the juxtaposition of public and domestic realms; the layering of reality and simulation; […]
Send In the Clowns (1994)
Send in the Clowns: Acts 1- 4 is one of several early series exploring the idea of homeas a construction and reflection of personal, private identity, within the larger context of the public realm. A series of four large colour photographic prints, Send in the Clowns: Acts 1- 4 documents slide images of gritty public spaces projected over a […]
5 Fraserwood Ave., Apt. #2 (1993 -1994)
5 Fraserwood Ave., Apt. #2 continues the exploration of home as a construction of personal, private identity within the larger context of the public realm. This series consists of an installation room modeled after my grandparents’ living room and nine colour photographs documenting the room against public spaces that refer to their life history as Jewish immigrant workers […]
Open House (1992 – 1993)
From 1991-1994, interested in the idea of home as a construction of personal, private identity, I built installations of domestic rooms and installed them at different public sites where I documented them in photographs. Asserting the individual within the larger context of the public realm, the domestic rooms often evoke the vulnerability of the private self amidst […]