Christine Negus

you can't spell slaughter without laughter
January 19 - February 18, 2012
Gallery TPW is pleased to present a solo exhibition by emerging artist Christine Negus. Negus’ works range from ephemeral objects, including glittery party banners, neon signs and artificially flowered memorial wreaths, to video works steeped in sweet sadness. you can’t spell slaughter without laughter is a constellation of short but intense, single channel videos and digital-animations investigating nostalgia and loss through humour and difficult irony.

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Christine Negus – you can’t spell slaughter without laughter

by Jon Davies
From the exhibition you can’t spell slaughter without laughter by Christine Negus (January 19 – February 18, 2012)
Negus’ works range from ephemeral objects, including glittery party banners, neon signs and artificially flowered memorial wreaths, to video works steeped in sweet sadness.

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Lori Newdick, Untitled, 2006, 2005

About The Artist

Lori Newdick lives and works in Toronto where she is developing a significant body of work titled Travelogue. This work includes images from her Lucky series, for which she intends to create “beautiful and seductive” images that capture the space between herself and her subject.

Lori Newdick received her MFA from the University of Guelph in 2001 and her BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1999. Her photo-based images have been exhibited across Canada and internationally. Her work is included in notable public collections such as the National Portrait Gallery in Ottawa, the MacDonald Stewart Art Gallery, and the Kamloops Art Gallery and also in prominent private collections. She is represented by the Corkin Gallery in Toronto.

Katherine Knight, Bubble, 2000

About The Artist

The images in Katherine Knight’s delicate Bubble Suite series each portray the moment when a bubble has elegantly reached the center of the frame, referencing “landscape and geography while exploring ideas of memory, narrative, will, and consequence.” This established Toronto based photographer’s works are often recognizable for the subtle and intellectual interventions that she imposes on the landscape.

The recipient of the Duke and Duchess of York Award in Photography (2000), Katherine Knight has exhibited her work across North America and is included in many collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Banff Centre for the Arts. She holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from the University of Victoria.

Website: www.kmknight.com/

Geoffrey James, Pantheon, from the Paris series

About The Artist

Geoffrey James is an internationally acclaimed photographer best known for his panoramic works reflecting the grandeur of both civic monuments and pastoral landscapes. This image from the Paris series examines the effects of urban transformations and the consequences of the city’s ambition to grow and expand. As Hubert Damisch observes in the accompanying catalogue of this series, James’ subject is “the resistance the city opposes to different forms of occupation.”

Geoffrey James has received numerous awards for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989 and a Roloff Beny Photography Book Award for his publication, also titled Paris. His work can be found in public collections such as the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Gallery of Ontario, as well as prominent private and corporate collections. He is represented by the Nicholas Metivier Gallery in Toronto.

Toni Hafkenscheid, Roller Coaster, Santa Monica, CA, 2004

About The Artist

Toni Hafkenscheid’s current body of work, H0, derives its name from the technical name for model train set scale. His surreal works of saturated colour are photographed to look almost like their namesake miniature toy sets. They play with viewers’ perception, confusing the real with the artificial.

Born in 1959 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Toni Hafkenscheid received his MFA in photography in 1989 from the Rietveld Academy. The recipient of numerous Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council grants, his work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and acquired by the Canadian Museum for Contemporary Photography, Canada Council Art Bank, Kodak France, Kodak Netherlands, as well by several noteworthy private collectors. He is represented by the Birch Libralato Gallery in Toronto.

Website: www.thphotos.com

Phil Bergerson, Untitled, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2005

About The Artist

Shards of America is an exploration of American culture by Toronto based artist Phil Bergerson. Using the poetry of signs and landscapes as guides, Bergerson created this work from the perspective of an “empathetic neighbour.“ He approaches his work as an archaeological study, referencing the iconic images of photographers such as Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Nathan Lyons.

Born in 1947, Phil Bergerson has been creating photo-based work for more than thirty years, and his reputation continues to grow with the publication of the Shards of America book. Widely exhibited, his work is included in the collections of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. He is represented by Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto.

Website: www.philbergerson.com/

Roger LeMoyne, Srebrenica, Bosnia, 2006

About The Artist

Montreal-based photographer Roger LeMoyne’s Srebrenica, Bosnia is a haunting glimpse into the lives of women known as the Mothers of Srebrenica who collect, file and copy photographs of many of the 8,000 men who were murdered after the fall of Srebrenica in1995.

Roger LeMoyne holds a BFA from Concordia University. He began working in photojournalism in 1991 with coverage of the crisis in the Horn of Africa, and has since photographed in more than forty countries worldwide. His documentary work is concerned with representing the human side of international issues and he has received many prestigious awards for it, including the 2007 Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. His work is included in important national and international collections, including the National Archives of Canada and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace.

Website: http://rogerlemoyne.com/

Adam Harrison, Back Room, Vancouver Aquarium (Live coral reef exhibit), 2006

About The Artist

Adam Harrison is a Vancouver-based artist whose work considers aspects of the production and reception of art. For Back room, Vancouver Aquarium (Live coral reef exhibit), Harrison photographed the hidden mechanics of a public aquarium. By revealing the complicated filtration and lighting systems required for viewing the illusory diorama, this work suggests the similarly hidden processes required for making photographs.

A strong emerging talent, Adam Harrison’s work is exhibited nationally — most recently at Monte Clark Gallery (Vancouver) and Dyan Marie Projects (Toronto). He is also the co-curator of CSA Space in Vancouver.

Website: www.aharrison.com/