FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Toronto, March 28, 2008 – Glendon Gallery is ending its rich season of programming, as tradition has it, with an MFA York University student's exhibit, which has an evocative exhibition title. We are please to present Disappear Here, an installation by young emerging artist Lauren Nurse, from April 19 to 30, with the opening reception Saturday April 19, from 2 pm to- 5 pm.

Opening Reception: SATURDAY APRIL 19, 2 - 5 pm

Lauren Nurse’s exhibits print works on unconventional supports, installation pieces and sculptural works as the culmination of two years of graduate study. Currently exploring intersections between real and fictive environments, Lauren Nurse’s diverse arts practices include print media, painting and drawing, video and performance. Disappear Here is a critical transformation of the iconic and reductive images of nature found in popular culture.

“My images ironically attempt to tame the sublime. Through unconventional print work and etchings in mirror and glass, natural subjects are intimately acknowledged as unsentimental records somewhere between souvenirs and science.”

Lauren Nurse applies new technologies to the language of print media, innovating traditional methods.  Exploring the possibilities of print, she incorporates different supports, inks and surfaces in her work.  With a basis in print, Ms. Nurse has expanded her practice to include installation, time-based and ephemeral works, and performance.

“My conception of the matrix is not limited to a plate, block, stencil or stone, but is rather an object that manifests a process, act or event and creates a reproducible record of its own making.”

Lauren Nurse lives and works in Toronto, Ontario and is a graduate of Concordia University’s Print Media program.  She is currently attending York University’s MFA program and has participated in exhibitions in Toronto, Montreal, New Mexico and Italy.  Lauren has completed residency programs at Montréal’s Atelier de L’Île, Atelier Circulaire, the Vermont Studio Center, Newfoundland’s Pouch Cove Foundation and Muskoka’s Tree Museum Sculpture Garden, and directed Montreal’s VAV Gallery.  An avid gardener, Ms. Nurse is also a pursuing a horticultural degree. 

Acknowledgements

The Glendon Gallery would like to thank its media partners: the French newspapers L'Express and Le Métropolitain, Radio-Canada TV and radio CJBC 860 AM, la Première Chaîne, also ClicToronto.

Gallery hours:  Tuesday to Friday: 12 - 3 pm / Saturday: 1 - 4 pm.

information: 416-487-6721 / gallery@glendon.yorku.ca  / www.glendon.yorku.ca/gallery.

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Source: Martine Rheault, Artistic Coordinator, 416-487-6859, artculture@glendon.yorku.ca