Canadian artist Jill Price uses that which already exists in the creation of her new exhibition UN/making the Frame

Barrie, Ontario Nov 13, 2022 (Issuewire.com)  - Until December 4th at Georgian College's Campus Gallery, transdisciplinary artist and Ph.D. candidate Jill Price draws on the history of Still Life painting to bring attention to the material histories and effects of objects in her new art installation UN/making the Frame.

Resisting the desire or social pressure to create more work for the exhibition, Price started from the lines contained within one of her existing painted-over landscape series entitled Landscape on Table.  Using black tape, the artist then began to outline walls, baseboards, doors, and tables. chairs and other mock furniture to extend the still-life’s picture plane into the gallery’s 3D architectural space. To transform the 2D painting into a 3D space even further, the artist then incorporated other reconfigured artworks and her personal collection of “things” to illustrate how our interior and exterior worlds are physically and psychically linked.

Embracing the ready-made for its potential to delineate space as well as bring attention to the accumulation and “liveliness” of everyday objects, Price also plays with abstraction, deconstruction, and reflection to disrupt the structural delineations within the gallery so as to unsettle how, where, when and why objects are utilized or situated. Price shares,

“In coming to recognize how objects impact environments way beyond the sites in which they are consumed or viewed, I am interested in how unmaking frames of representation and perception inevitably lead to an endless number of questions and multiple truths that can extend the life of an object, as well as lead to a deeper understanding and increased valuing of the material networks we are a part of.”

In an additional effort to reverse the Italian term for Still Life, natura morta, which means “dead nature”, Price pushes art into the verb tense by incorporating stop motion videos of herself preparing for and installing the exhibition, and offering interactive prompts such as those found within the instructional art of Yoko Ono. Price clarifies,

“The stop motion videos, although accelerated, work to draw attention to the process, time, labour, and other materials that go into the making of any one thing or space. By making this visible, I point to how the cost and the true value of “things” do not align. By calling on visitors to put on a suit, smell, water, zest, taste, move, touch, and rearrange elements in the space, I invite everyday performances of care that help to visualize how art is neither two-dimensional nor still, and that the actions of humans’ matter.”

To learn more about the exhibition visit the exhibition's Akimbo listing or attend the free artist talk on Tuesday, November 22 at 10 am

The artist would like to thank artist assistants Jaeden Redmond, Gayle Fortin, Derek Berry, Darcie Brownell, and Dale Mary Sachin, Gallery Director Amy Bagshaw, and acknowledge the support of the Social Sciences Humanities Research Council. 

About the Artist:
A past instructor within Georgian College’s Fundamental Art and Fine Art programs, Jill Price is an interdisciplinary Canadian artist and independent curator of German, Scottish, Welsh, and unknown descent grateful to be living, working, and playing on the traditional territory of the Wendat Nation and Anishinaabeg people, in Barrie, Ontario. Price earned a BFA and BEd at Western University and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art Media and Design at OCAD University in Toronto, Ontario where she was the recipient of a 2016 SSHRC national research grant, 2017 Michael Smith Foreign Study Bursary and the 2017 Research and Writing Award for her thesis Land as Archive: A Collection of Seen and Unseen Shadows. Having also received the 2018-19 Faculty of Arts and Science Dean’s Award for Environmental Justice, 2021 Faculty of Arts and Science Project-Based and Portfolio Ph.D. Research Award and a 2021 /2022 Teaching Fellowship at Queen’s University, Price is currently in the last stages of an SSHRC Ph.D. Research-Creation Fellowship at Queen’s University in which she is in the process of developing a UN/making Methodology.

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