Log Pile, 2013
Susana Reisman
Standardizing Nature: Trees, Wood, Lumber
September 12 - October 18, 2014
Opening Reception
Friday, September 12, 6-8 p.m.
Gallery 44 | Centre for Contemporary Photography
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120
Toronto, ON, M5V 3A8
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Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Opening Reception
Friday, September 12, 6-8 p.m.
Gallery 44 | Centre for Contemporary Photography
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120
Toronto, ON, M5V 3A8
[ Google Map ]
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Combining photography with sculptural elements, Susana Reisman’s solo exhibition explores the form and function of natural resources and the transitional relationship between wood and lumber. Through staging and photographing ubiquitous building materials she invites a closer reading of how standards impact our reality.
Excerpt from artist statement: "For me, this project is really about encouraging people to question and understand the reasoning and decision-making behind the 'shape' of things. It is about a concern for the natural resources we harness from the earth and the form, function, and role they play in our everyday lives. Economies and industries are built around these decisions and they 'reverberate' outwards from the center like rings in the core of a tree. Those standards set the 'tone' for future generations and the kind of world we, and they, will live in."
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay written by Mark A. Cheetham.
Excerpt from artist statement: "For me, this project is really about encouraging people to question and understand the reasoning and decision-making behind the 'shape' of things. It is about a concern for the natural resources we harness from the earth and the form, function, and role they play in our everyday lives. Economies and industries are built around these decisions and they 'reverberate' outwards from the center like rings in the core of a tree. Those standards set the 'tone' for future generations and the kind of world we, and they, will live in."
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay written by Mark A. Cheetham.
Bios
Susana Reisman was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1977. She received a BA in Economics from Wellesley College (Boston, 1999) and an MFA in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, 2005). Her work has been exhibited in Canada, United States, Venezuela, and Mexico, and is in various public and private collections, including: University of Toronto (Donovan Collection); Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago; and the Rochester Institute of Technology (Wallace Library and Media Cafe Collections). She lives and works in Toronto.
Mark A. Cheetham writes on art theory, art, and visual culture from c. 1700 to the present and is active as a curator of contemporary art. His co-curated exhibit Jack Chambers: The Light From the Darkness / Silver Paintings and Film received an OAAG ‘best exhibition’ award in 2011. He received the Art Journal Award from the College Art Association of America for “Matting the Monochrome: Malevich, Klein, & Now” (2006). He has published two books on abstract art, The Rhetoric of Purity: Essentialist Theory and the Advent of Abstract Painting (1991) and Abstract Art Against Autonomy: Infection, Resistance, and Cure since the '60s (2006). His latest book, Artwriting, Nation, and Cosmopolitanism in Britain: The “Englishness” of English Art Theory, was published in 2012, as was a new edition of Remembering Postmodernism: Trends in Recent Canadian Art. His current research, "Manipulated Landscapes," examines the understanding of ‘nature’ in ecological art. Cheetham teaches art history at the University of Toronto.
Susana Reisman was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1977. She received a BA in Economics from Wellesley College (Boston, 1999) and an MFA in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, 2005). Her work has been exhibited in Canada, United States, Venezuela, and Mexico, and is in various public and private collections, including: University of Toronto (Donovan Collection); Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago; and the Rochester Institute of Technology (Wallace Library and Media Cafe Collections). She lives and works in Toronto.
Mark A. Cheetham writes on art theory, art, and visual culture from c. 1700 to the present and is active as a curator of contemporary art. His co-curated exhibit Jack Chambers: The Light From the Darkness / Silver Paintings and Film received an OAAG ‘best exhibition’ award in 2011. He received the Art Journal Award from the College Art Association of America for “Matting the Monochrome: Malevich, Klein, & Now” (2006). He has published two books on abstract art, The Rhetoric of Purity: Essentialist Theory and the Advent of Abstract Painting (1991) and Abstract Art Against Autonomy: Infection, Resistance, and Cure since the '60s (2006). His latest book, Artwriting, Nation, and Cosmopolitanism in Britain: The “Englishness” of English Art Theory, was published in 2012, as was a new edition of Remembering Postmodernism: Trends in Recent Canadian Art. His current research, "Manipulated Landscapes," examines the understanding of ‘nature’ in ecological art. Cheetham teaches art history at the University of Toronto.
Please join us for the following Special Event
Brunch Talk: Susana Reisman in conversation with Mark A. Cheetham
Saturday, September 27, 12-2 p.m.
Gallery 44 | Centre for Contemporary Photography
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120
Toronto, ON, M5V 3A8
Brunch Talk: Susana Reisman in conversation with Mark A. Cheetham
Saturday, September 27, 12-2 p.m.
Gallery 44 | Centre for Contemporary Photography
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 120
Toronto, ON, M5V 3A8
1/4" x 24" x 24" Plywood, 2013 (left); 1" × 1" × 4" Pressure Treated Nailing Strip, 2013 (right)
House Frame, 2013
Pallets, 2014
About Gallery 44
Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to photography as a multi-faceted and ever-changing art form. Founded in 1979 to establish a supportive environment for the development of photography, Gallery 44’s mandate is to provide a context for reflection and dialogue on contemporary photography and its related practices. Gallery 44 offers exhibition and publication opportunities to national and international artists, award-winning education programs, and affordable production facilities for artists. Through its programs, Gallery 44 is engaged in changing conceptions of the photographic image and its modes of production.
For more information please contact:
Noa Bronstein at 416-979-3941,
or by email at [email protected]
Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography is a non-profit artist-run centre committed to photography as a multi-faceted and ever-changing art form. Founded in 1979 to establish a supportive environment for the development of photography, Gallery 44’s mandate is to provide a context for reflection and dialogue on contemporary photography and its related practices. Gallery 44 offers exhibition and publication opportunities to national and international artists, award-winning education programs, and affordable production facilities for artists. Through its programs, Gallery 44 is engaged in changing conceptions of the photographic image and its modes of production.
For more information please contact:
Noa Bronstein at 416-979-3941,
or by email at [email protected]