Marla Hlady
October 12, 2006 — November 04, 2006
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Mixers, 2005-2006 Marla Hlady Stainless steel, audio components, LED lights, batteries. 10 x 4 1/2 d. inches | Wah-wah Teapots (Landscape for Alvin Lucier) 2006 Marla Hlady Procelain teapots, audio electronics and electrical motors, custom cabinet. |
Marla Hlady produces kinetic installations and sound works that are in turns contemplative, amusing and disquieting. Although she is best known for these works that brought her a 2002 Sobey Art Award nomination, Hlady also makes innovative brushed ink line drawings that render the emotional, physical and metaphorical properties of sound visible. Hlady's work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Power Plant. Toronto in 2001, Owen’s Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick, 2004 and Art Gallery of Calgary, 2003;. In 2005 she completed an invitational residency in Iceland, which inspired several of the works in this exhibition.
Selected group exhibitions include: The Idea of North, seen in Iceland and touring to several centres in Canada; The Networked City, a site work sponsored by the City of Toronto and Interaccess Gallery, Toronto, 2006; The One, NGC 224 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 2005; Generally, But Not Always, Apexart Gallery, New York, 2002; Officina America, Museo di San Domenico, Imola, Italy, 2002; Tracy Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2001; Machines Festives, La Centrale, Montreal, PQ, 1999; and Flywheel, The Nunnery, London UK,1999.
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Marla Hlady