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SUMMARY:Wasteland / Wanderland
DESCRIPTION:About the Exhibition\nWasteland / Wanderland  – exhibition essay by Shaun Crawford \nAny soul born from childhood will connect with the universal experience of growing up\, a sensation that Laura Peturson implores with apparent effortlessness – and capitalizes on as a space to draw attention to the world that today’s children are destined to inherit. Within large scale murals\, Peterson immerses her audience in a fantasy land that at first glance seems separate from the adult world. And yet\, there is something looming in the margins. Some hunch that two realms are in a quiet conflict with each other. The innocence of children\, so enchanting in the ease of their wonderment\, is being invaded by the greater\, corruptible\, ever more complicated context that  cradles them. The world we live in now.  \nLaura Peturson is based just outside of North Bay\, Northern Ontario\, a place known as “the gateway” between North and South. And so it is no accident that Peturson’s work also serves as a gateway\, a journey between two worlds. Her journey includes a B.F.A from York University in Toronto in 20011\, followed by an M.F.A from New York Academy of Art in 2005. And for the last decade\, Peterson has given her time as Associate Professor of the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Nipissing University in North Bay Ontario. She has shared a myriad of exhibitions along the Eastern artistic hubs of Canada and the U.S\, including numerous shows through both Ontario and New York. Those shows have featured Peturson;s printmaking with a focus on relief\, screenprint\, and papercut processes. Though\, like any artist\, describing her simply by her academic history and preferred mediums falls drastically short of capturing her body of work- a narrative- based exploration of the defining experience of childhood and how its imprint and resulting identity interacts and resonates with place. And like many of her themes\, the notion of “place” represented an interconnected series of manifestations\, including geography\, internal space\, familial environments\, a globalized planet\, and no doubt much more than that. For Peturson is an artist that doesn’t seem too concerned with operating inside these constraints.  \nHer work is likewise ungoverned by arbitrary rules or constrained by boundaries\, be they artistic or imposed – most importantly those often self-imposed. And yet\, as much as her work exists in a boundless world\, it also lives on a razor thin edge\, that place that Peturson herself describes as\, “The line between peril and safety\,” a notion echoed in the title of her exhibition\, Wasteland/Wanderland. And “wander” and “wonder” and in doing so blurs the line between each. And wonder most certainly has a place in this exhibition as well. Be prepared to be immersed in an uncanny world\, an experience carrying with it both the familiar and the deliberately unknown. This Wasteland/Wanderland\, most definitely evoking a forest as a totem that immediately conjures a sense of both danger and whimsy\, borrows well from the history of children’s stories. Should anyone have had the good fortune to come across the original images from the wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland there will be a familiarity in the artistic style of Peturson’s work\, clearly influenced by earlier print images in children’s books. Within these woods\, overgrown\, dead\, or dying\, there is an instant sense of both nostalgia and fear. Nostalgia for the uninhabited and explorative experience of childhood and fear in the wisdom that burdens adulthood\, the recognition of peril and decay. But the dread that seeps out of every chasm and fissure in every root and every tree\, is still so easy to ignore\, even as it threatens to overtake the children that recall such a sense of enchantment.  \nChildren have been called the world’s most valuable natural resource\, and the irony of that claim is apparent in Peturson’s world\, intended or not. This precious resource\, incumbent with inheritance\, children are unwilling participants in the chapter-book of our collective worlds. Just as we all were once. And now\, in a space where we’re allowed to stand on the edge between that penultimate innocence and the gravitas knowledge we now possess\, what will it mean to each of us? What will we walk away with? What will we leave behind? Because in the answers to those questions\, may be the world that we entrust to the children.  \nAbout the Artist \nLaura Peturson is a printmaker based in Northern Ontario. Her work uses narrative to explore themes of childhood\, gender\, and place. She is interested in the ways the domestic spaces we inhabit as children form our identity and a conception of our place in relation to family\, geography\, and nature. Peterson’s recent work has been exhibited at Flowers Gallery (New York\, NY)\, The Thunder Bay Art Gallery (Thunder Bay\, ON)\, White Water Gallery (North BAy\, ON)\, and Idea Exchange (Cambridge\, ON). In January 2017\, she installed a 9 x 16 ft printmaking mural at the Gladstone Hotel as part of Come Up to My Room\, an exhibit in the Toronto Design Offsite Festival. Her recent curatorial projects include a national artist residency for the creation of site-specific installations in North Bay entitled You are Here: Visualizing Place at the Gateway to the North. Peterson teaches printmaking\, painting\, and drawing at Nipissing University. 
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LOCATION:Alberta
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SUMMARY:Spread
DESCRIPTION:About the Exhibition\nExhibition essay by Kristina Arnold \nMarilee Salvator’s work is deceptively beautiful. Entering one of her room-sized installations\, the viewer is drawn into a candy-coated world. A riot of jewel-toned circles bursts across the walls and cascades to the floor\, shiny\, plastic and playful. Forms tumble and spill\, coalescing into patterns both lacy and bold. There are no frames on the wall\, meticulously crafted editions or flat paper surfaces. Instead\, thousands of single-color clusters are relief printed onto transparent film\, each then painstakingly cut out by hand. In overlapping layer upon layer\, nearly buzzing with life\, each piece is pinned to the wall\, seemingly to prevent it from escaping. The addition of lighter\, less intense ghost prints\, the introduction of neutral greys to the work’s palette\, and the shadows created through the clear print surface provide a counterbalance\, and give a physical and temporal depth to the work. \nSpread’s process and materials reference both traditional “women’s work” and the more traditionally male space of the factory. Visual elements strongly rooted in the feminist-inspired Pattern and Decoration movement\, traditional quilts and children’s coloring books are paired with manufactured plastic film and an industrially-inspired process for creating multiples. Cloth piecework and mechanical die cutting are equally/visually present. The individual artist’s hand is concealed- through the intervention of the machine to create image\, and at the same time revealed – by altering each piece individually (via cutting it with scissors) once it comes off the press. \nEncountering Salvator’s dense work we wonder: is this a jungle or a seascape? Has our scale shifted\, and we are instead navigating the space under a microscope? We could be observing flora or fauna: breeding\, morphing\, mutating\, and taking over a space. In her print project\, Salvator harnesses the potential energy that lies latent within a process of multiples. A single building block\, used over and over\, stacks\, fills\, and masses. One cell divides\, and these daughter cells divide\, exponentially covering space. \nSalvator’s shapes and layers reference the build-up of time – both metaphorical and actual. We navigate the rain forest and smell the sweet overgrowth of decay; we snorkel through the accretion of barnacles and sealife on a long- ago sunk ship. We marvel at the dramatic complexity that is our body magnified many times over. One component is\,by itself\, beautiful\, healthy and desirable. But\, when repeated obsessively\, a small piece metastasizes\, becoming toxic to its body host\, or envelops its environment completely and becomes dangerously claustrophobic. Beneath the gleeful\, colorful surface lies a darker significance. Perhaps it is that the plastic film\, though attractive\, is busily proliferating in oceanic trash islands\, suffocating the very sea life it depicts. Maybe the jungle vines\, brought to a new environment and planted to share their beauty\, are now reproducing out of control\, choking out the native landscape. Or the lifestyle we enjoy is barraging our bodies with daily toxicities that eventually add up to cancer. \nLest the viewer despair\, our fears of what may lie behind the curtain are balanced by Salvator’s sheer positive visual energy. We are cautioned of the consequences of our indulgences\, but are ultimately left with a gift. Like the proverbial kids in the candy store\, we have immersed ourselves within her transformed fantasy world\, have consumed our fill\, are satiated and slightly sick. We are richer for the experience\, and if given the chance\, we would do it again. \nArtist Bio: Marilee Salvator is an Assistant Professor of Printmaking and Design at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green Kentucky. Her work has been exhibited in over 100 exhibitions throughout North America\, South Korea\, China\, Japan\, Portugal\, Serbia\, Ireland\, Scotland\, Poland\, Italy\, New Zealand and Romania. Her work is included in over 25 collections including JCI University\, Jiangxi\, China and Sakmi Art Museum\, Okinawa Prefecture\, Japan.
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LOCATION:Alberta
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