« URBAN DIARY » 1 au 27 juin | June 1 to 27
atelier | workshop ° 19 juin 14h00 | June 19 ~ 2:00PM
finissage ° 24 juin 19h00 | June 24 ~ 7:00PM
redbirdstudios.org
Multimedia artist Andrea Kastner employs the material artifacts of quotidian experience to explore the intimate relationships between individuals, communities, and the built environment that are constitutive of a specifically urban consciousness. Over the course of her one-month open door residency at the Red Bird Gallery, Kastner will be working on a series of works rendered in her unique collaging style, as well as furthering her artistic exploration of the accumulated detritus of daily life in the Mile-End by performing an autopsy on a bag of garbage.
atelier | workshop ° 19 juin 14h00 | June 19 ~ 2:00PM
finissage ° 24 juin 19h00 | June 24 ~ 7:00PM
redbirdstudios.org
Multimedia artist Andrea Kastner employs the material artifacts of quotidian experience to explore the intimate relationships between individuals, communities, and the built environment that are constitutive of a specifically urban consciousness. Over the course of her one-month open door residency at the Red Bird Gallery, Kastner will be working on a series of works rendered in her unique collaging style, as well as furthering her artistic exploration of the accumulated detritus of daily life in the Mile-End by performing an autopsy on a bag of garbage.
Begun in 2009 in Kastner’s studio at the Red Bird, the series of collages systematically documents a single block of the alleyway directly facing the studio building, between Waverly and St. Urbain streets. The details of this familiar cityscape––the rusted staircases, laundry lines and garden fences––are built up using layers of everyday ephemera, including metro transfers, shopping bags, electrical tape and price tags. Also included in this exhibit is an 18-foot panoramic work, Cinema V, a tribute to the abandoned Empress Theatre, a magnificent crumbling neo-Egyptian movie house in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
Andrea Kastner received her BFA from Mount Allison University in 2006. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Maison de la Culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and the Galerie Port-Maurice (Montreal, QC), and in group exhibitions at Gallery 21 (Halifax, NS), Struts Gallery (Sackville, NB), the Niagara Artists Centre (St. Catharines, ON) and Hamilton Artist Inc. (Hamilton, ON). She has worked as an art instructor at the Visual Arts Centre in Montreal, and is currently pursuing her Masters in Fine Arts in painting at the University of Alberta.
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