Rossendale - Allison Hrabluik
Rossendale, 2006 video still courtesy of the artist
Rossendale Allison Hrabluik
April 15 - May 20, 2006 Opening Friday, April 14, 8 pm
Solo exhibition featuring stop-animation video and installation by Antwerp-based Canadian artist Allison Hrabluik.
Western Front Exhibitions is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Antwerp-based Canadian artist Allison Hrabluik. The artist will be in attendance for the opening.
The exhibition looks at the farmer as inventor and augmenter: DIY traits passed down through generations. The objects created by the farmer, and reproduced by Hrabluik for video, form accidental portraits of the farmer as industrious, meticulous, fallible, and stoic. They also operate as analogies to the small-farm industry - an industry sometimes considered superfluous in light of new technologies. The objects (including a garbage burning oven, hydraulic wood chopper, water well, and appendages for a tractor) delineate examples of the composition and sculptural skills the farmer has developed, and when seen together their anthropomorphic nature recalls a magic realism that sets the stage for theatrics not normally associated with the above connotations.
Currently completing postgraduate studies at the HISK in Antwerp, Hrabliuk has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions and film festivals across Canada and internationally. Her work has been included in exhibitions in Vancouver at the Or Gallery and Catriona Jeffries Gallery, in Toronto at Mercer Union and Diaz Contemporary, the Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse, MSVU Art Gallery in Halifax, the Market Gallery in Glasgow (Scotland), and Artspace in Adelaide (Austrialia).
The Western Front gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council through the Government of British Columbia, the City of Vancouver, and our members and volunteers. The Western Front is a member of the Pacific Association of Artist-Run Centres (PAARC).
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