Toronto Craft Alert

BODY + OBJECT
January 5 – 31, 2010

Please join us for the opening reception on Wednesday, January 20, 5:30 – 8:30 pm

As a participant in the TIDF, the Ontario Crafts Council is pleased to present Body + Object, an exhibition featuring the work of eighteen artists who explore the relationship between the body and the many forms in which it can ornament, present and represent itself. The body is perhaps today’s most ubiquitous cultural object, especially in its use to announce identity through the ever-changing landscape of apparel. Craft finds its place in this process of disclosure with work designed to adorn, protect, and even introspectively examine the body. Body + Object offers work addressing the real as well as thematic presence of the body, where traditional craft media appear in new forms and use style as a means to investigation.

Body + Object includes the work of Amanda McCavour & Silke Stadtmuller / Andrea Graham / Annie Thompson / Bebhinn Jennings / Dandi Maestre / David Dunkley / Gillian Batcher / Jessica Beauchemin / Karina Bergmans / Laura Donefer / Lois Schklar / Marina Dempster / Norah Deacon, Adrian Parks & Yvonne Ng / Tanya Lyons / and Tara Bursey.

For more information on Body + Object contact Janna Hiemstra at jhiemstra@craft.on.ca or 416-925-4222 ext 225

The Ontario Crafts Council
990 Queen Street West
Toronto, Ontario, M6J 1H1
416-925-4222, info@craft.on.ca
www.craft.on.ca

For more information on the Toronto International Design Festival see www.tidfonline.com

Images left to right: Norah Deacon, Yvonne Ng & Adrian Parks, Contemporary Dance Paper Costume for Yvonne Ng; Marina Dempster, TITLE: “immune”: 1. Having immunity to infection. 2. Exempt, as from obligation or duty. 3. Protected from danger.; Jessica Beauchemin, Hairpin III – Electronic Inspiration; Lois Schklar, Memory Tool #4; Tanya Lyons, Armour.

The video component of Contemporary Dance Paper Costume for Yvonne Ng is supported by BravoFact.