MAIN SPACE/PROJECT SPACE EXHIBITION
SEPTEMBER 4 – SEPTEMBER 27, 1998
RECEPTION: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1998 AT 8 PM
ARTIST TALK: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1998 AT 2 PM

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

EXHIBITION INFORMATION

In THE GAP, a previously undiscovered sequence of paintings from a number of domestic settings is brought together by Vera Gartley and installed with her own text-based works at Stride Gallery. The original painting was done by a visual busker early in the century and copies were made by other painters in response to the original work. The texts, accessible through audio, print and digital media, are excerpts from personal, popular and specialized viewpoints collected over time. Some issues that have emerged from these collected texts include hierarchies of judgment; notions of the original; the value of copying; the gap between “amateur” and “professional”; and the meaning of “improvement” in the realm of landscape.

The installation itself will be comprised of commercial signs derived from the copied landscape; the original painting with multiple painted copies; and a number of different stations. The formal appearance of the gallery is important because the viewer/participant needs an overall vision of a defined format before they plunge into disparate components. Through the profusion of these components and the invitation to participate the work expands to become something rather than being about something.

The gallery space symbolizes a gap – a sort of laboratory of experimental and spontaneous transmissions of language and images – in which responses to the original are welcome and will be collected from web browsers and gallery goers during the exhibition. Some thoughts submerge; others emerge and are captured at the moment or are saved and stored with analog or digital technology. The gap serves as an undefined or immaterial space from which the next thought may arise.

ARTIST BIO

VERA GARTLEY was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1933. Gartley currently lives in Calgary, Alberta, and has been teaching at the Alberta College of Art and Design since 1964.

EXHIBITION TEXT

A previously undiscovered sequence of paintings from a number of domestic settings is brought together by Vera Gartley and installed with her own text-based works at Stride Gallery. The original painting was done by a visual busker early in the century and copies were made by other painters in response to the original work. The texts, accessible through audio, print and digital media, are excerpts from personal, popular and specialized viewpoints collected over time. Some issues that have emerged from these collected texts include hierarchies of judgment; notions of the original; the value of copying; the gap between “amateur” and “professional”; and the meaning of “improvement” in the realm of landscape.

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