Crystal Mowry’s Ageographica opens at the Stride Art Gallery Association
On Friday, October 13, 2006 – The Stride Art Gallery Association will celebrate the opening of Ageographica, a new installation by Crystal Mowry. Using common, everyday materials such as reclaimed plastics, Sharpie pens, and straight pins, Mowry creates fantastical spaces based real locations and events. Her recent work, Ongoing Ideal Forms (After Versailles), which consisted of foam, sponges, sand, spices, resin, a model railroad track, a wireless camera, and miscellaneous electronic and motorized components, was exhibited as part of Quantal Strife at the Doris McCarthy Gallery, UTSC. In it she recreated to scale the gardens of Versailles complete with an encircling model railway and remote camera. For Ageographica, Mowry will install a meticulously detailed network of maps, diagrams, and meandering tourists onto the vacant walls of the gallery.
Please join us at the opening from 8pm until the wee hours.
Also,
Public Lectures:
Alberta College of Art and Design
Friday, October 13, 2006 @ 12PM
Room: s139a (Sculpture Dept.)
Presented by the ACAD Visiting Artist Committee
& the ACAD Sculpture Department
University of Lethbridge
Monday, October 16, 2006 @ 12PM
Recital Hall
Presented by Visitors In The Arts,
University of Lethbridge
Artist Bio:
Crystal Mowry is an artist currently based in Guelph, Ontario. She received an AOCAD from the Ontario College of Art and Design and an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. Her recent exhibitions include Quantal Strife (curated by Sally McKay), and collaborations with Panya Clark Espinal (as Liminal Solutions) for the Manchester Letherium Ideas Competition exhibited at Cornerhouse Gallery (Manchester, UK) and “The Terrarium Project” at Harbourfront Centre (Toronto) in 2006. Her work examines wonder, scale, and knowledge in fictitious versions of tourist-destination landscapes.
The Stride Art Gallery Association
1004 MacLeod Trail SE
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T2G 2M7
403 262 8507
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www.stride.ab.ca
Stride is open to the public from 11 AM - 5 PM, Tuesday - Saturday
Admission is free and all are welcome.