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On November 13th (5-8PM), we welcome you to join us for the opening of our upcoming MoCL Window Gallery exhibition: "The Cormorant's Shadow," by artists David Woodward and Louise Reimer.Gallery Hours:
Thursdays: 5-8PM
Saturdays: 1-4PM
Until November 27th.
About "The Cormorant's Shadow":
The Cormorant’s Shadow brings together ceramic sculptures, paper collages and drawings by Canadian artists Louise Reimer and David Woodward. Both artists have developed personal, yet overlapping visual languages that reinterpret classical mythology, art-historical iconography,
and pop culture from a queer perspective. With a particular focus on animal symbolism and queer mythologies, works in this exhibition will excavate the potential of allegory and re-imagined histories as mechanisms for visual storytelling and world building. This exhibition will aim to explore the thematic crossover between each artist’s practice, inviting viewers to consider their own personal mythologies and the subconscious impulse to find patterns and meaning in unexpected forms.
About the Artists:
Louise Reimer (@louisereimer) is a Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist and illustrator whose work draws on Greek mythology, pop culture, and her own lived experiences. Through ceramics and drawing, Reimer interrogates the cultural significance assigned to animals and objects, often exploring multiple meanings and how they intersect with identity and queerness. Mirrored by her slow and meditative process of hand-building, Louise’s ceramics works are pensive - simultaneously calm and probing, as they unravel the complexities of human relationships to symbols and nature. By twisting and re-interpreting Christian iconography - a recurring influence from her early upbringing, Louise crafts a distinctly queer perspective that questions systems of power. This transformation of traditional and archaic symbology forges a visual world of empowerment and reclamation, offering new interpretations that challenge conventional narratives.
David Woodward (@david_woodward, davidwoodward.ca) is a Tkaronto/Toronto-based visual artist whose practice utilizes drawing and collage to find relationships between seemingly disparate visuals, with the aim of depicting both everyday and symbolic subjects that belie more complex understandings of the exterior world. Using imagery gleaned from used books and magazines about the environment, astronomy and design, their work reflects a composite visual world of figures, spaces and iconography built from anachronistic fragments of the past. In their work, cutouts of photographic imagery are divorced from their original contexts and matched with unrelated forms and shapes - a bowl cut from the side of a mountain, a planchette cut from a bird’s plumage, etc. This optical interplay between imagery and form relates to David’s ongoing exploration of ‘pareidolia’ (the tendency to see meaningful images in random visuals - such as shapes in the clouds) and more broadly - to their interest in the human impulse to view our world in ways that transcend logical and physical confines.
Location: 750 Fairfield Road, Wheelchair accessible through East Entrance.
Cost: Free/by donation.
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