MAIN SPACE EXHIBITION
NOVEMBER 6 – NOVEMBER 28, 1998
RECEPTION: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1998 AT 8 PM

LOCATION – STRIDE GALLERY
722, 11 AVE S.W, CALGARY, ALBERTA

EXHIBITION INFORMATION

Nicholas Wade’s work is both sculpture and installation. He teaches sculpture at the university of Lethbridge. Over the past ten years his work has addressed the distraction, the noise or “rhetoric” of everyday objects, architecture and language as if there could be some syntactical link between these different aspects of our built environment. Reformulating dream and memory fragments through writing has been used as a tool and a framework for re-thinking this hypothetical rhetoric between things and place. Objects which appear in his work are often open forms or voided forms which emphasize light, shadow and spaces, as if it is in these phenomenae that our experiences of things and place are both held and made relentlessly ambiguous.

It is those aspects of architecture, objects and tools which are both in a state of “holding” and “being held”, in which an equivocation and an attraction as things “speak” themselves as a functioning sequence, readable through a flow of differences.

ARTIST BIO

NICHOLAS WADE was born in Essex, England in 1949 and came to Canada in 1952. He attended York University, The Banff Centre and NSCAD where he received a MFA in 1981. He has taught and exhibited extensively in Canada. He is currently the Assistant Dean of the Division of Art at the University of Lethbridge, in Alberta.

EXHIBITION TEXT

Nicholas Wade’s work is both sculpture and installation. He teaches sculpture at the university of Lethbridge. Over the past ten years his work has addressed the distraction, the noise or “rhetoric” of everyday objects, architecture and language as if there could be some syntactical link between these different aspects of our built environment. Reformulating dream and memory fragments through writing has been used as a tool and a framework for re-thinking this hypothetical rhetoric between things and place. Objects which appear in his work are often open forms or voided forms which emphasize light, shadow and spaces, as if it is in these phenomenae that our experiences of things and place are both held and made relentlessly ambiguous.

It is those aspects of architecture, objects and tools which are both in a state of “holding” and “being held”, in which an equivocation and an attraction as things “speak” themselves as a functioning sequence, readable through a flow of differences.