By Hook or by Crook is the Advanced fibers exhibition shown at Eastern Bloc. Vernissage Friday March 30th 8pm-11pm. I'll have one of my works called What you take off isn’t always gone my investigations of skin marks from clothing.
Here are initial investigations toward the work I will show at the exhibit.
By Hook or By Crook is an exhibition in the domain of fibre that amalgamates the works of sixteen artists. Showing at Eastern Bloc from March 30th to April 5th 2012, the event celebrates the implication of fibre-based processes investigated during their undergraduate careers at Concordia University.

This student-led exhibition By Hook or By Crook is a diversified marriage of practices and approaches that expand on the possibilities of fibre art. Contemporary reinterpretations of fibre are a veritable explosion of known boundaries. The environment created questions various themes, such as the body and its functions, identity, mark-making, traces and labour practices. Above all, fibre implicates a research of materiality and texture that is prominent throughout this show.

By Hook or By Crook is like a firework display : each individual finds their own colour and as a result the work skyrockets and erupts in the same space. This show incorporates varied interpretations of what represents fibre in a contemporary framework, embodied by a group of emerging artists.

The artists taking part in this exhibition are : Jessica Bélanger, Tanya Bernleithner, Munirih Campbell, Sandra Chirico, Jules Desmarais, Selina Doroshenko, Karen Warshaw Lampcov, Véronique Leblanc, Courtenay Mayes, Emily Kathleen McIntyre, Ali Moenck, Lauren Osmond, Diana Pèrez, Cedar-Eve Peters, Jodi Sharp, Janna Maria Vallée.

Eastern Bloc
7240 Clark 2nd floor
March 30-April 5th

Please check website for map and gallery hours.

http://www.byhookorbycrook.ca

Proud to be part of the En Avril Fiber art festival.
http://www.enavril.com/programmation.html

Also, on the same day Janis Jeffries will be giving a talk at Concordia before the vernissage  and we will provide a free shuttle buss to the  gallery!  http://fibres.weebly.com/2/post/2012/03/en-avril-opening-reception.html
http://studio-arts.concordia.ca/news-and-events/events/social-fabric-keynote-lecture-by-professor-janis-jefferies-goldsmiths-university-of-london-uk.php

Here is a photo of my piece for the Block party show at Annex vintage. sharing the window with  photographer Erik Naumann.

Images from the vernissage:http://annexvintage.blogspot.ca/search?q=block+party

The Advanced fibres Exhibition at Eastern Bloc starting March 30th. I'll have an art wrotk in this show.
Information on website 

By hook Or By Crook

"We keep making history, but conversely history is continually being made by every one of us, upon our own bodies"
-Giles Deleuze, Dialogues with Claire Parnet. 1987

An art work of mine will be part of the Art Matters Festival. The exhibit is called Block Party and will take place in several different location around the Mile End neighborhood. Vernissage is on March 8th at General 54 (54 St. Viateur. O.) From 5pm-7pm. 
My work will appear in General 54/Annex vintage Window.
Please check out the Block Party page for more information Here.

My collection of the 'remain's of the day' textile version is growing rapidly thanks to a few helpers. 
Can you guess what made those marks?
Here is the list:
Tights, scrunched up socks, bra strap, socks, knit hat.

The evidence left on our skin throughout the day from the textiles we wear speaks volumes. The texture of our clothing become imprints on the surface of our bodies.  I am currently investigating the appearance of these marking by photographing and noting how long the skin takes to repair itself. Through investigations I have found a link to the tradition of still life's or vanitas and recently am exploring what this might bring to my work. The idea that the marks are ephemeral and the skin is shifting and repairing itself relate to a type of time lapse that I am exploring currently. Also While recoding time and markings i find myself feeling this work has taking on a scientific aproach which I am also curious about.