KRISTAN HORTON: ORBITS

Kristan Horton Orbit: Doorknob, 2009 Digital colour photograph, Ed. 5. 134.5 x 101.5 cm/ 53  x 40  in	Kristan Horton Orbit: Disposible Gloves, 2009 Digital colour photograph, Ed. 5. 134.5 x 101.5 cm/ 53  x 40  in	Kristan Horton Orbit: Zen, 2009 Digital colour photograph, Ed. 5. 134.5 x 101.5 cm/ 53  x 40  in
Kristan Horton Orbit: The Original, 2009 Digital colour photograph, Ed. 5. 134.5 x 101.5 cm/ 53  x 40  in	Kristan Horton Orbit: Red Plate Tokyo, 2009 Digital colour photograph, Ed. 5. 134.5 x 101.5 cm/ 53  x 40  in	Kristan Horton Orbit: Dark Center, 2009 Digital colour photograph, Ed. 5. 134.5 x 101.5 cm/ 53  x 40  in

Opening reception Saturday September 12, 4 to 6 pm

Critic Dan Adler will speak about Horton's Orbit series in the gallery at 3:30 pm Saturday, September 26th, the 14th Annual Canadian Art Hop.

Kristan Horton’s second solo exhibition at the gallery will feature a new series of photographic works entitled Orbits. Digitally repositioned as spatial dispersions on a single plane and derived from the artist's initial photographic records of his movements around his subject matter, these images are quasi-abstractions that recall Futurist and Cubist paintings. Horton continues to pursue his interest in the mediation of knowledge using layered processes of construction, both virtual and material. Exploring technological potential as it relates to our engagement with the world, Horton remains equally immersed in research and realization through processes that recall the amateur's do-it-yourself pleasure in creation with simple means at hand.

Kristan Horton's work was featured in We can Do This Now at the Power Plant, Toronto (2006), in Stutter and Twitch, Bard College Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Beyond/In Western New York at the Albright Knox Art Gallery Buffalo (2007), and in Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War at the Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga and the Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland (2008). This fall his work will be featured in My Evil Twin at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina (October 3, 2009 to January 24, 2010) and in Beautiful Fictions at the Art Gallery of Ontario (September 9, 2009 – January 17, 2010).

Horton's Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove series was shown at the Art Gallery of York University and the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver) in 2007, accompanied by the artist's book of the same title, which includes the full series of 200 recreations of scenes from Kubrick's famous film. Recent solo exhibitions include White Columns, New York and VOX Contemporary Image, Montreal (2008).

Artists:
Kristan Horton