Calder Kamin

Verdant Vulpes

2022

Bluff depicts a dichotomous, pseudo-outpost structure. On the one hand, this totemic tower appears to be an innocuous stack reminiscent of a child's clubhouse or fort--a dry spot for...

For the past decade, Andrew Blanchard’s work has volleyed between personal reflection and objective reportage. Blanchard’s screen-printed paintings touch upon prickly issues such as ...

"Here's to the Night Owls" is a sculpture by Marcy Lally. The piece is 9.25 inches high, 6.50 inches wide, and 3.25 inches in depth. It is made from ceramic pieces and a horseshoe mo...

Illegible & Inedible (Books You Can’t Read and Food You Can’t Eat) is a new exhibition of works by sculptor Sean O’Meallie. This series of sculptures includes a wall of books and a w...

Illegible & Inedible (Books You Can’t Read and Food You Can’t Eat) is a new exhibition of works by sculptor Sean O’Meallie. This series of sculptures includes a wall of books and a w...

Illegible & Inedible (Books You Can’t Read and Food You Can’t Eat) is a new exhibition of works by sculptor Sean O’Meallie. This series of sculptures includes a wall of books and a w...

Artist Commentary: This piece is created using a variety of casting materials cast into a concrete form tube (sonotube) and combined with cast off indust...

JENNY DAY earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the U...

JENNY DAY earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the U...

Text by Terence Sharpe There is a moment in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) when the character Hari commits suicide by drinking liquid oxygen. As she is not actually a human, but an artificial hybrid product of the mysterious planet and the protagonists’ memories, she heals rapidly and is alive again minutes later. Her choice to take her own life is poignant, seemingly the action of a being becoming aware of its hopeless infinitude. Her realization that while the men will die on the space station or elsewhere, her existence is that of immortality, a deeply alienating notion that causes her to seek her own destruction. The Montreal artist Guillaume Lachapelle has one work that prompts a sense of eternal alienation that echoes Hari’s tragedy. The work greets the viewer with a empty doorway flanked by clinically white bookshelves...

'We surround ourselves with elements from nature in the form of manicured lawns, sculpted trees, and our domesticated companions. We bend the natural world to our tastes and create a...

'We surround ourselves with elements from nature in the form of manicured lawns, sculpted trees, and our domesticated companions. We bend the natural world to our tastes and create a...