NIALL MCCLELLAND @ emporium

Niall McClelland is a Toronto-based multi-disciplinary artist whose work has been featured in such publications as Adbusters, Arkitip, Nylon, The Walrus and Tokion. Losers, his first Montreal exhibition, is a collection of new artworks that are in fact a series of imagined and forgotten flags- each of which exemplify McClelland's interest in absurdity, misspent youth, graphic systems of identity and the language of mark making.

Artist Statement :
« There is a strong material focus in my work, frequently limited to a grey scale palette and readily available materials such as graphite, photocopies, ink and paper. These materials reflect the nature of the subjects whose identity is being explored and re-imagined. There is both a sense of recklessness and restraint in my work, markings that imagine violent and brutal past lifes, while also retaining an inherent solemnity and respect.

The work created for the Emporium Gallery is a series of imagined and forgotten flags, residing in this make shift space in dedication to their forgotten owners. These are symbols of identity that have been lost in history, symbols of the forgotten and insignificant, overshadowed and tossed aside. This is an attempt to re-create a place of importance for some of those losers. »

« LOSERS » vernissage 21 mai 19h00 | May 21 ~ 7:00PM
ouvert 23 & 24 mai | open May 23 & 24
rsvp jusqu'au 27 mai | by appointment until May 27
Emporium Gallery : 3035 Saint-Antoine Ouest #74