LOOSE ENDS | MARY GRISEY, FAYE MULLEN, JÉRÔME NADEAU, DEBORAH WANG
January 14 — March 6, 2016
Each decay is a form of transformation into other living things, part of the great rampage of becoming that is also unbecoming. It is cruel, it is death, and it is also life, degeneration and regeneration, for nearly all living things live by the death of other things.
— Rebecca Solnit
TYPOLOGY is pleased to present Loose Ends, curated by Noa Bronstein and featuring sculpture, video, and photo-based works by Mary Grisey, Faye Mullen, Jérôme Nadeau, and Deborah Wang.
Exploring the spaces between states of being, the exhibition traces the cyclical and vernacular places between appearance and disappearance, presence and absence, construction and deconstruction. Each work questions the currency of permanence. Moving between and within, a new kind of relic is realized, one that is both past and present, confined only to the metamorphic.
Loose Ends will be accompanied by an exhibition catalogue with curatorial essay by Noa Bronstein and original writings by each artist, plus full documentation of the show.
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Please join us for a public opening reception and tour of the exhibition with the curator and artists on
Thursday, January 14, from 5–8 pm. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome.
There will be three other exhibitions opening in the building this evening, including the Koffler Gallery’s new show featuring Howard Podeswa!
Event Location
TYPOLOGY
No. 302, Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw Street, Toronto, ON M6J 2W5
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About the Artists
Mary Grisey is an American sculptural installation artist currently based in Toronto, Ontario. She received an MFA in the Visual Arts program at York University, a BFA in Fiber and Material Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA in Painting and Drawing from Marist College. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Kentucky, San Francisco and Toronto, and was recently awarded the Windgate full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center for the Spring of 2016.
Faye Mullen makes work which is informed by a sculptural sensibility combining elements of performance, site, sound, light and image — both moving and still. Mullen studied at l’École National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris, at the Ontario College of Art+Design, and at the University of Toronto where she received her master’s. She has participated in several international artist residencies and her work has been exhibited internationally in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, South Korea, Spain, the UK and the US. Faye currently situates her practice between Toronto, Canada and Roubaix, France.
Jérôme Nadeau is an artist, curator and editor living and working in Montreal. He is an MFA candidate at Concordia University and also attended the Photography MA program at the Valand Academy in Sweden. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at venues including Gallery 44 in Toronto (as part of the 2014 CONTACT Photography Festival), FOFA Gallery and Les Territoires in Montreal, and Galleri Monitor in Gothenburg, Sweden. Nadeau is also the founder of soon.tw, a publishing platform dedicated to the production of artist books, monographs and multiples, and co-director of Galerie Éphémère, a nomad initiative promoting the work of emerging artists in atypical environments.
Deborah Wang is an independent curator, designer, and educator. She holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Waterloo and a Master of Fine Arts from OCAD University. She has curated exhibitions widely in Toronto, and exhibited and spoken on her own work both locally and internationally, in addition to teaching design studio at Ryerson University. Currently Wang splits her time as Creative Director of the Toronto Design Offsite Festival, a senior designer for superkül, and as a scholar/maker.
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About the Curator
Noa Bronstein is a researcher and curator based in Toronto. Recent curatorial projects include Come Up to My Room at the Gladstone Hotel, where she was the Director of Exhibitions and Cultural Promotions, and Out of Sorts: Print Culture & Book Design at the Design Exchange, where she was the Director of Public Programs and Acting Curator. She is also the co-curator (with Katherine Dennis) of Memories of the Future, an ongoing project that invites contemporary artists to intervene in historic house museums. Bronstein has contributed to such publications as C Magazine, esse art + criticism, and Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. She is currently the Executive Director of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography.
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Click to download/print the media release below (PDF)
images, left to right: Mary Grisey, Remains of the Ephemeral III (detail), 2014, photo by Thomas Blanchard; Jérôme Nadeau, Untitled from the RUINS series, 2012–ongoing; Faye Mullen (top), à jamais (still), 2011; Deborah Wang (bottom), Drip (still), 2013
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