photos: Isaac Applebaum
camouflage 1, 1998
The Red Head Gallery, Toronto
Queen Anne’s Lace, dressmakers form, latex, thread, motor, motion sensor, metal armature, control box
dimensions variable
mechanical design: Colin Harry
camouflage 1, revolves around the acts of camouflage and seduction. As the viewer enters the gallery space, a transparent lace curtain/net partially conceals and frames the object beyond. The curtain is fabricated from Queen Anne’s Lace strung together in delicate rows. Beyond, an antique dressmaker form covered in layers of tinted latex to build up a skin surface, is covered in pressed Queen Anne’s lace. From the top of the figure’s form emerges an elaborate Elizabethan collar which when triggered by a motion sensor, slowly open up to the viewer’s approach in a startling gesture of welcome or reproach.
Exhibition History
2011 ANIMAL. Museum London, London, Ontario. Curated by Corrina Ghaznavi.
2010 TIAF, Toronto, Ontario. Represented by Olga Korper Gallery.
2008 useless beauty. Nuit Blanche, OCAD, Toronto, Ontario. Curated by Johanna Householder and Jennifer Rudder.
2003 Artists’ Echoes: Contemporary Responses to the ROM Collection. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario. Curated by The Institute for Contemporary Culture.
2000 The Fashion Statement. Art Mûr, Montréal, Québec.
2000 camouflage. The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta. Curated by Joan Stebbins.
1998 camouflage 1. Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.