Diptychs by artist Mark Igloliorte features over a hundred observational works of still lifes and studio vignette paintings, a series that has been ongoing since 2010. Painted upon torn phonebook paper, Igloliorte uses this practice to explore ideas of place – both the studio interior and at the city, town or whole region the phonebook paper indexes.
Alla prima paintings of similar size and palette depict commonplace objects and fragments of studio space. These diptychs concentrate on the same subject matter and are hung in pairs throughout the gallery. Through this dual repetition the artist considers observational variance and representation. While subject matter is painted twice over, this repetition is not an effort to replicate. Instead, the shift or fluctuation in perspective rejects an authoritative version, placing a greater emphasis in multitudes over a definitive original.
Join us on Thursday June 4 (7-10 pm) for the opening reception of Diptychs at grunt gallery. The artist will be in attendance. This exhibition runs from June 4 – July 18, 2015.
Press Clippings:
Canadian artist Mark Igloliorte paints a series of ‘growing and experimenting’ | BeatRoute
Artist Bio:
Mark Igloliorte is an artist who was born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and grew up in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador. His artistic work is primarily painting and drawing. He has exhibited in group and solo shows across Canada. Recently, Igloliorte has participated in national and international exhibitions such as Beat Nation, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Le Nouveau Pleinairisme, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, QC; drift, (Solo), curator Ryan Rice, The Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, ON; and The Québec Triennial 2011: The Work Ahead of Us, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal QC. He has been the recipient of a number of awards and grants including the Lillian Vineberg Award in Painting and Drawing, The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Visual Arts Grant, and a Canada Council for the Arts Emerging Artist Grant. Igloliorte is represented by Gallerie Donald Browne.
He holds a Bachelor of Education (Intermediate/Secondary) from Memorial University of Newfoundland, a Bachelor of Fine Art, Major in Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and a Master’s of Fine Art, Studio Art – Painting and Drawing from Concordia University School of Graduate Studies.
Igloliorte is an Assistant Professor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
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READ MORE:
Material Traces- Performativity, Artistic “Work,” and New Concepts of Agency by Amelia Jones
Amelia Jones is the Robert A. Day Professor in Art and Design and Vice Dean of Critical Studies at the Roski School of Art and Design at University of Southern California. She reflects here on “artists animating art through the labor of the material trace” including Igloliorte’s Diptychs.