STRIP(E)S
Opening reception | September 9, 7 – 10 pm
Exhibition Runs | September 8 – 19
Gallery 1313-Cell Gallery
1313 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON
Inspired by the concept of artist detritus, Linda Chalmers explores the discarded materials she uses in her art practice as artwork in and of themselves. Known predominantly as a painter, Linda utilizes rolls and rolls of tape of varying sizes in order to create the hard-edge lines that are prevalent in her paintings. The used and discarded strips of tape are coloured by paint that has bled over the exposed surface, resulting in striped lengths of tape of varying hues. Scrunched up in balls of tape out of convenience, Linda discovered the delicate beauty inherent in these hollowed orbs of coloured, imperfect stripes. The strips of stripes, once simply part of the artist’s detritus, become independent of its role in painting; the process of painting becomes the product, documented through digital photography.
