Monika Napier: Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Organized by Kenderdine Art Gallery. July 2 to September 4, 2005, at Central Gallery.
Additional Information
Other associated events: Opening Reception and Artist's Talk Friday, July 8, 7:00 pm
Monika Napier will be artist in residence at Dunlop from July 4 to July 10, when she will construct a new work at Central Gallery. You are invited to drop in to see her at work and to participate in the exhibition event by bringing along a small electrical appliance. Napier's current body of work, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, is a hyperbolized monument to excess, connectivity and over-consumption. Constructed with extension cords and plastic cable ties, these deceptively straightforward objects provoke interpretive entanglements. Napier's obsessively constructed installation, titled after Stanley Kramer's 1963 comedic road movie It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, exaggerates the maniacal intensity of North American patterns of consumption. Napier handles a broad range of media with astonishing technical skill. Her installations and objects are shaped by a carefully configured conceptual framework. The resulting imagery is exquisite, persnickety, and persists vividly in memory and imagination. The recipient of a BFA from Concordia University in 1988, Napier received a MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1998. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Napier currently lives and works in Montreal.
Monika Napier, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Installation View), 2005.
When
2005, Sep 4 2005 - All day
Where
Dunlop Central Gallery,
Interest
Past