About the Exhibition

Threshold Figures are a series of lithograph prints composed of abstracted elements from Gustave Dore’s illustrations of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy; figurative compositions constructed from manipulated 19th century interpretations of 14th century super-sensible landscapes. Dante and Dore provide the framework to discuss the transition from figuration to transfiguration. Threshold Figures are invested in representation and interpretation; with breaking down traditional print methods while simultaneously honouring them. Through the conceptualization and materialization of these prints, the artist is confronted with the disparity between the printing press and the internet; with how these different methods of information production and consumption have influenced thought (static versus amorphous).

Artist Bio: Alexis Grey Hildreth is a Vancouver-based artist whose work revolves around relationships between internal and external geography. Alexis is balanced by terror and awe; the stable and the amorphous. From innkeeper to nightwatchman, Shepard to security guard, grocer to gardener; Alexis feels the pain of the shovel intensifies the pleasure of the pen.