Rural Readymade

Janice Wright Cheney, Eryn Foster, Will Gill, Geoff Hendricks, Adriana Kuiper, Doug Lewis, Norma Jean MacLean, Kim Morgan, Clint Neufeld and Ryan Suter

January 13 - May 5, 2012

College Art Galleries 

Curated by Shauna McCabe

The effectiveness of the “readymade” has centred upon its probing of a key tension and confusion – between what is, and what is not, art. This exhibition will feature work by a number of contemporary artists who explore the mutability of interpretation and meaning through an investigation of the idea of the readymade in contemporary experience. Focusing on everyday surroundings where the use and adaptation of found materials are deeply engrained, the work of these artists playfully and adeptly blurs registers – between the mundane and aesthetic, low-tech and no-tech, found and familiar. The collective vernacular that emerges in the Rural Readymade is one that speaks of an agile and persistent drive towards the creative reimagination of art and everyday life.

Organized by the College Art Galleries in partnership with Confederation Art Centre