LISA KLAPSTOCK: LIMINAL September 12, 2006

LISA KLAPSTOCK: LIMINAL
BOOK LAUNCH

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2006, 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

AT PREFIX INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Suite 124 - 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto

The Kamloops Art Gallery, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, and the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery with Jessica Bradley Art + Projects are pleased to announce the launch of Lisa Klapstock's monograph, Liminal. Published on the occasion of liminal, Klapstock's national touring exhibition, this sumptuous book is an exploration of Klapstock's artistic oeuvre of the past decade and documents two substantial bodies of work: the laneway project and Ambiguous Landscapes. Series included in the exhibition liminal, such as Living Room and Threshold, are supplemented in the monograph with images from earlier works, such as Crossover, Panorama, and Excavations. Exquisitely designed by Bryan Gee, Liminal contains not only high-quality reproductions of Klapstock's lens-based work, but also in-depth essays written by Scott McLeod and Alison Nordström.

With a focus on everyday places and their human occupation, Klapstock's work explores the liminal zone between abstraction and realism, revealing the complex relationship between photographic depiction and visual perception. She is interested in the mechanisms of seeing and the role of the camera in affecting and challenging the way we see and experience our surroundings. Her photo-based artworks are both richly colourful and rigorously intellectual.

Born in Kamloops, B.C., Klapstock studied at Simon Fraser University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Currently living in Toronto, Klapstock has exhibited her work in North America and Europe at venues including George Eastman House and The Centre for Photography, New York; Gallery TPW, Toronto; Centre Vu, Québec; Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver; The Odense Photo Triennial and Gallerie Image, Denmark; and the Musée de la Photographie, Belgium.

The artist Lisa Klapstock will be in attendance along with contributing writers Alison Nordström and Scott McLeod, as well as Stuart Reid, Director/Curator of the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, and Jessica Bradley, Director of Jessica Bradley Art + Projects.

Lisa Klapstock: Liminal
Essays by Scott McLeod, Alison Nordström
Introduction by Marilyn Smith, Stuart Reid, and Jann LM Bailey
Published by Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, and Kamloops Art Gallery
Hardcover, full colour, 96 pages, $39.95, ISBN 1-894699-33-5

For more information please contact:
[email protected] Tel: 416-537-3125 or
Christy Telford, Administrative Assistant, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery
Tel: (519) 376-1032 Email: [email protected]

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