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2010 CURRENT EXHIBITION

Todd Stewart

Todd Stewart
In One Here and
Out the Other

March 12– April 12, 2010
Opening: Thursday, March 11
Artist Talk 7pm | Reception 8pm

The ODD Gallery is pleased to present In One Here and Out the Other, an array of new screenprints by TODD STEWART.

Stewart's exhibition, made during five weeks as artist in residence at KIAC, reveals an improvisational, process-based approach to creative practice that works with images from sets of contrasting realities: awake/sleep, real/imaginary, now/another time, Montreal/Dawson City.

Not unlike a Rorschach test, In One Here highlights the psychological and emotive effects of looking, the highly-subjective ways in which we reconcile the perceptual mystery of the abstract within our more concrete forms of understanding and language. The works in this exhibition offer the viewer clues, hints and frameworks for reference, but ultimately suggest an idea of comprehension that is emergent and fleeting, something that perhaps tells us more about ourselves than the images' own conclusion or intention. Stewart's evocative works provide a outlet for a participatory imaginative encounter--a site for dreaming, wayward thinking and the pleasures of discovery.

Through a repetition of simple forms and shapes--with an eye to qualities of transparency, light and colour--Stewart's works find meditative/aesthetic resonance through the process of automatism and inherent element of chance that uniquely characterize the printmaking process.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

There is little of conscious critical approach in this work. I've rejected most of what I learned and picked up in my education. I'm a reflective person and hope that my belief system is mirrored through my work. In turn I am sure that my work has exerted influence on my current way of being and belief system. My prints tell me stories I don't consciously know much about, and I that is important to me. This uncertainly is what ultimately makes me enjoy creating my work.

TODD STEWART lives and works in Montreal, where he is the founder of Bree,ree, a creative print studio dedicated to innovative art and graphic design projects and products. Over the years, Stewart has become well-known and sought-after for his distinctive rock poster designs for the Decemberists, the Besnard Lakes, Stereo Total, Of Montreal, Constantines, and many others. Recently, Stewart has been exhibiting his work at a number of galleries in Montreal including Monastiraki, General 54, and Drawn & Quarterly.

More about Todd Stewart

The ODDGallery gratefully acknowledges the support of the Yukon Government, Department of Tourism & Culture and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, Bag 8000, Dawson, Yukon, Y0B 1G0, Canada.
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