Legitimate Culture | Vancouver | 05.25.10

i see water – New Works by Colleen Heslin

Opening Reception May 28
Les Gallery | 1879 Powell Street, Vancouver

I See Water is a comical take on landscape painting and contemporary lifestyles. Colleen Heslin looks at water as an object, destination, or means towards a destination and our attraction and romanticization of these sites in modern society. This body of work stems from historical painting as a documentary means to capture vernacular moments in time and space while playing with common motifs in contemporary snapshot photography. Whimsical and ambiguous gestures are prominent; a splash in a river, or a concealed hump on a couch hint towards a narrative subtext while selected objects shape and inform notions of identity and relationships within modern interiors and exterior rural environments.www.colleenheslin.com
www.thecryingroom.com

Passes can be found at:

Neptoon Records (3561 Main Street)
Audiopile (2016 Commercial Drive)
Zulu Records (1972 W 4th Ave)
Scratch Records (726 Richards Street)
Zoo Zhop (223 Main Street)
Redcat Records (4332 Main Street)

May 22 – June 13, 2010
Loop Gallery | 1273 Dundas Street West, Toronto

QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION: Sunday June 6, 3 pm, at loop with Libby Hague and Rochelle Rubinstein. Moderated by Pat Macaulay, Head, Visual Art, Harbourfront Centre,
followed by Afternoon Tea at 402 College Street.

Pushing her ideas further, Libby Hague shows results from some of this year’s experiments which have shifted her painting and prints into sculptural hybrids. This exhibition features The trans-atlantic shift of the Elliott plaid, a deconstructed riff on Hague’s ancestral tartan with an interjected grove of birch trees, Safety net, and a selection of landscape paintings including Shotgun marriage, Abracadabra – and it did and Heaven does a backbend.