ROB BOS

About the exhibition
Discarded in under-looked places, in a sense these small abstract text paintings give voice to the spaces they interrupt, creating an audience of happenstance viewers that chance upon them. 
Less intimidating to the viewer by being in the everyday environment of the city, without any outside authority to direct their consideration, the connections made by this audience will be based on their individual experiences of finding and questioning why the work was left in its place.

For this exhibition Rob Bos is bringing a commercial element into the project.  For the exhibits duration he will be discarding paintings and selling the documentation photographs.  This is conceived as a quirky way to use the commercial market system by selling the photographs of original works which were then left to the elements.

FOR MORE INFO
go to the artist's website at
www.robbos.org

Exhibition Dates:
August 14 - 23, 2008
vernissage: August 14 2008, 5pm - 7pm

MIKE PATTEN

About the exhibition
The sculptures in Mike Patten’s exhibition are sombre and reflect the theme of confinement. Using commonly found objects and simple materials, the artist has created a series of sculptures which convey a desire to escape oneself or a situation, all the while knowing that this is impossible.

His latest work evokes wonderment, dreamlike states and the multitude of possibilities that life offers. In a universe originating in childhood, the objects embody tension, censure. There is a void that is unspoken or badly conveyed, a sense of emptiness, otherworldliness that inhabits within all of us, an echo that we cannot quite retrieve.

About the artist
Mike Patten was born in 1977 in Regina, of Cree and European decent. Currently living and working in Montréal, he holds a BFA in painting and drawing with a minor in art history from the University of Regina. Patten has participated in solo and group exhibitions internationally and nationally at artist run, commercial, and university galleries including: LOOP international video art Festival, (Barcelona, Spain, 2007), Neutral Ground, (Regina, SK, 2005), Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, (Montreal, QC, 2006) and the University of Bishops, (Lennoxville, QC, 2006).

FOR MORE INFO
go to the artist's website at
www.mikepatten.ca