Lisa Klapstock: Depiction
February 28, 2008 — March 29, 2008
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Picture 9-Toronto, 2008 Lisa Klapstock Digital C-prints, aluminum, laminate
| Picture 7-Toronto, 2007 Lisa Klapstock Digital C-print, aluminum, laminate
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We are open Saturday March 22, 12 - 5pm
JESSICA BRADLEY ART + PROJECTS is pleased to present Depiction, Lisa Klapstock’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.
With Depiction, Lisa Klapstock continues to explore the relationship between photographic depiction and visual perception. These photographs use depth of field to investigate the fragmented nature of human vision and the artifice of pictorial construction. The pictures slow down the eyes’ movement, making the viewer conscious of the way we see. Klapstock’s attention to quotidian detail reveals the seasonal lush vegetation found on ordinary urban streets. The first works from the ongoing series Depiction were featured by Rick Rhodes, editor of Canadian Art, in The News at 5 at the Toronto International Art Fair 2006.
Born in Kamloops, British Columbia, Klapstock lives and works in Toronto where she first became known for her photographic exploration of downtown alleys (Living Room and Threshold series 2000-2004). In her 2003-2005 series, Ambiguous Landscapes, finding her subject matter in Canada and abroad, the artist created views of the figure in undetermined spaces. These pieces confounded the viewer’s sense of depth and distance, often with the effect of transforming the familiar into an abstract painterly plane.
Klapstock has been invited to residencies in Holland, Finland, and Denmark, subsequently showing her work in these countries, and across Canada. Currently her work is in a two-person show with Paulette Phillips at the Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris. In 2006, Klapstock's full colour hardcover book Liminal published by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, and the Kamloops Art Gallery, was released in conjunction with a national touring show of her work. This publication is an exploration of the artist's oeuvre of the past decade.
Artists:
Lisa Klapstock