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Artist: Melisa Taylor Metzger
Artist: Jessica Houston
Medium: Oil
Of the return voyage...
Located in Montreal, Quebec
“Of the return voyage there is nothing to tell… In 1912 all the world learned that the brave Norwegian Amundsen had reached the South Pole; and then, much l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Eight Adélie Penguins...
Located in Montreal, Quebec
“Eight Adélie Penguins immediately came to greet us … They insisted on us going to visit Hut Point, where the large structure built by Captain Scott’s pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
We were sledgehaulers
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Exposed as our camp...
Located in Montreal, Quebec
“Exposed as our camp was to every wind, we built no rigid structures above ground. We set up tents to shelter in while we dug a series of cubicles in the ice itself.”
Over the Edge ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The nine of us worked things out...
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The steam from our own small funnel
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
instead of a narrow bight...
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
we came in sight of the Barrier...
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
When I was little more...
Located in Montreal, Quebec
“When I was little more than a child my imagination was caught by a newspaper account of the voyage of the Belgica…”
Over the Edge of the World locates itself in the entangled lega...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Inextricably Linked
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
She dug out one more cell...
Located in Montreal, Quebec
“She dug out one more cell just under the ice surface, leaving nearly a transparent sheet of ice like a greenhouse roof; and there, alone, she worked at sculptures...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The little Yelcho
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
…last Thule of the South
Located in Montreal, Quebec
"…last Thule of the South, which lies on our maps and globes like a white cloud, a void, fringed here and there with scraps of coastline, dubious capes, suppositious islands, headlan...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
A summary report...
Located in Montreal, Quebec
“A SUMMARY REPORT OF THE YELCHO EXPEDITION TO THE ANTARCTIC, 1909-1910. Although I have no intention of publishing this report, I think it would be nice if a grandchild of mine, or somebody’s grandchild, happened to find it some day; so I shall keep it in the leather trunk in the attic, along with Rosita’s christening dress and Juanito’s silver rattle and my wedding shoes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
But then, the backside...
Located in Montreal, Quebec
“But then, the backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that …But the achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
There Remains and Irreducible Parity
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and sky are tinged a movie musical pale blue and their gear is a bit too colorful for the era of man-hauling. And then there’s the sled, piled high not with boxes of supplies but with a jumbled heap of antiquities: Greek Athenas, bits of a coliseum, a ship’s great wheel. In Jessica Houston’s collage “The Long Haul,” the explorers drag history itself into the great beyond, their backs turned from their absurd load. But we take in the entire scene.
In her suite of works, Over the Edge of the World, Houston uses oil on wood, ink on paper, and collages of found images, many from National Geographic Magazine, to rearrange the evidence – and thus history’s possibilities.
Houston joins visual artists such as Judit Hersko, Katja Aglert, and Isaac Julien who have been inspired by the explorers of the past. Like them, she draws, in part, on the singular tradition of polar exploration narratives as well as fictions such as Ursula Le Guin’s “Sur” (1981), a utopian feminist hoax in which a party of South American women reach the South Pole in 1909, two years before the official arrival of European explorers. Le Guin’s explorers do not feel compelled to leave any written record or physical proof of their presence at the South Pole. If Le Guin’s women might have made it, what other traces have been missed?
Collage can work alongside alternative history: it interprets, interrupts, and rearranges. It questions the completed whole, instead emphasizing composition and relation. Collage suggests it all might be … otherwise. Houston’s collages flaunt their second nature. Yet what they show remains somehow plausible. You want to believe what you’re beginning to see.
In “A life Attuned to Larger Rhythms” Houston grids out rectangles of captured images to overwhelm the eye as the polar environment itself might (whiteout is a paradoxical species of optical overstimulation). Through the strangely ordered confusion of an ice survey grafted atop a chessboard, the mind begins to recognize new connections, emergent shapes: a different future? In “Launching Strategy” a yellow-orange pyramid balances garishly atop a tent. Which came first, the realist tent or the Platonic shape? Can we ever be sure that we’re not already seeing through premade abstractions? Or is it that baggage we’ve been dragging along?
In “Architecture of the Anthropocene” and “Red Blood, Red Earth” Houston reroutes visually symbolic through-lines between women and non-European people and the official history in which they appear dimly or not at all. A full-skirted woman holds onto the tether of a kite that seems to pull her upwards towards a weather balloon floating above an Antarctic base’s radio tower; a row of tropical workers wielding pickaxes folds into the trajectory of a sailor aiming a bow and arrow at an iceberg stained with red. These are not people or images normally associated with polar discovery. But shouldn’t they matter?
“Territory Over Land” strips in a scene from a painted depiction of the tropics, possibly from one of Captain James Cook’s circumnavigations. “Captain Cook’s Legacy” more directly confronts an official portrait of Cook with the torn-in eyes from what can only be described as the explorer’s anonymous dark Other. The hybrid portrait is a kind of contact zone. “Henson and Peary – Past Entanglements” is a cooler, less volatile twin portrait of disputed discoverer of the North Pole Robert Peary...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
To Hang In Between
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Sky Was A Doorway
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Polar Opposites and Complementary Relationship
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Shadow Economy of Extraction
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Action Which Enables Us to Project Our Forces Into the Outside World
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Between Them
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
If the Two Realities Are Thus Brought Together
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Impossible Abyss Which Separates the Two Sides
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Both Above and Below
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Rift Valley, Sonde 1 (khaki tan green organic copper coastal abstract texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 1" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
A Balancing Land
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Around Us and Within Us
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Holding Up and Attracting the Earth
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Of a Difference in Which the Differences Are Inseparable
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Compass Rose
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Heart World
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Rift Valley, Sonde 5 (romanticism tonal nature organic copper abstract texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 5" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relie...
Category
2010s Romantic Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic, Acrylic Polymer
At sea between fossils and satellites 7 (blue organic copper abstract texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"At Sea between Fossils and Satellites 7" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with art deco aestheti...
Category
2010s Color-Field Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Rift Valley, Sonde 1 (khaki tan green organic copper coastal abstract texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 1" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Petrichor 1
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Petrichor 1" is a multilayered work which dynamically combines Color-field staining, impasto-relief, and sand textures. Inspired by the natural world, a dreamscape imagery is create...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic, Acrylic Polymer
Rift Valley, Sonde 15 (aqua green textured organic painting copper atmospheric
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 15" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with gestural...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil
Rift Valley, Sonde 1 (khaki tan green organic copper coastal abstract texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 1" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic, Acrylic Polymer
Rift Valley, sonde 2 (texture copper bronze gold emerald green abstract wine red
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 2" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with textural topography. Various techniq...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Rift Valley, Sonde 5 (romanticism tonal nature organic copper abstract texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 5" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relie...
Category
2010s Romantic Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Rift Valley, Sonde 9 (blue green gold bronze coastal vibrant abstract texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 9" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Rift Valley, Sonde 1 (khaki tan green organic copper coastal abstract texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 1" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Rift Valley, Sonde 5 (romanticism tonal nature organic copper abstract texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 5" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relie...
Category
2010s Romantic Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Rift Valley, Sonde 5 (romanticism tonal nature organic copper abstract texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 5" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Category
2010s Romantic Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Rift Valley, Sonde 6 (flora blue green tan organic copper abstract texture taupe
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 5" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Category
2010s Romantic Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 9 (blue vibrant abstract art deco texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"At Sea between Fossils and Satellites 9" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with art deco aestheti...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Rift Valley, sonde 2 (texture copper bronze gold emerald green abstract wine red
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 2" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with textural topography. Various techniq...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Rift Valley, sonde 2 (texture copper bronze gold emerald green abstract wine red
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 2" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with textural topography. Various techniq...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
At sea between fossils and satellites 7 (blue organic copper abstract texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"At Sea between Fossils and Satellites 7" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with art deco aestheti...
Category
2010s Color-Field Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Rift Valley, sonde 2 (texture copper bronze gold emerald green abstract wine red
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 2" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with textural topography. Various techniq...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Rift Valley, Sonde 9 (blue green gold bronze coastal vibrant abstract texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 9" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil
Rift Valley, Sonde 9 (blue green gold bronze coastal vibrant abstract texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 9" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic, Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil
Rift Valley, Sonde 6 (flora blue green tan organic copper abstract texture taupe
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 5" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Category
2010s Romantic Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Rift Valley, Sonde 15 (aqua green textured painting organic copper atmospheric)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 15" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with gestural...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 9 (blue vibrant abstract art deco texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"At Sea between Fossils and Satellites 9" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with art deco aestheti...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
Rift Valley, Sonde 9 (blue green gold bronze coastal vibrant abstract texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"Rift Valley, Sonde 9" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with bas-relief aesthetics. Various techn...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
At Sea Between Fossils and Satellites 9 (blue vibrant abstract ocean texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"At Sea between Fossils and Satellites 9" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with art deco aestheti...
Category
2010s Abstract Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
At sea between fossils and satellites 7 (blue organic copper abstract texture)
Located in Quebec, Quebec
"At Sea between Fossils and Satellites 7" is a textural and elemental abstract painting on canvas. It explores the hybridization of chance-derived color-fields with art deco aestheti...
Category
2010s Color-Field Oil Mixed Media
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Found Objects, Oil, Acrylic
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