Outside A Marble Palace; new works by Vanessa Brown and Deirdre McAdams
April 25th - May 24th, 2014
Exhibition Images
Vanessa Brown
Deirdre McAdams
April 25th - May 24th, 2014
Exhibition Images
Vanessa Brown
Deirdre McAdams
Field Contemporary is pleased to present Deirdre McAdams and Vanessa Brown together in its inaugural exhibition, Outside A Marble Palace. New works by both artists will be exhibited, highlighting McAdams’ paintings and Brown’s sculptures.
Deirdre McAdams is a visual artist living and working in Vancouver BC, Canada. She is a graduate of Emily Carr University of Art and Design (2008), and the Victoria College of Art (2003), where she studied painting. She was awarded an Honourable Mention in the 2011 RBC Painting Competition, as well as a prize in 2010 from Canadian Art Magazine for her writing on contemporary art. Her practice represents an engagement with the minimal vocabulary of geometric and optical abstraction, and is characterized by a spirit of experimentation within the limits of pre-determined methodological confines.
Vanessa Brown is a Vancouver-based artist who works predominantly in sculpture. She graduated with a BFA from Emily Carr University in 2013 and was the recipient of the Chancellor’s Award. She has exhibited in Montreal, Vancouver and Berlin. As a female sculptor she is invested in the history of 20th century sculpture and particularly in re-examining the heroic, the monumental, and the macho. She works predominantly in steel and seeks to parse the space between its associations with industry, weaponry and brutality, with its more subtle qualities such as pliability, versatility and slightness. By turning toward the intimate possibilities within sculpture, she hopes to open a space wherein a conversation about poetics and semiotics can take place alongside of the material and visceral experience of the work.
Opening reception April 24th, 2014. Exhibition running April 25th, 2014 through May 24th, 2014.
Field Contemporary is open to the public Tuesday-Friday 12pm-5pm, Saturday 1pm-6pm, and by appointment.
pictured above from left to right: ‘Time Traveler ll’, steel and oil, 26.5”X10”x12”, 2014 Vanessa Brown. ‘Loss for Words’, spray paint on linen, 30”x36”, 2014 Deirdre McAdams
Deirdre McAdams is a visual artist living and working in Vancouver BC, Canada. She is a graduate of Emily Carr University of Art and Design (2008), and the Victoria College of Art (2003), where she studied painting. She was awarded an Honourable Mention in the 2011 RBC Painting Competition, as well as a prize in 2010 from Canadian Art Magazine for her writing on contemporary art. Her practice represents an engagement with the minimal vocabulary of geometric and optical abstraction, and is characterized by a spirit of experimentation within the limits of pre-determined methodological confines.
Vanessa Brown is a Vancouver-based artist who works predominantly in sculpture. She graduated with a BFA from Emily Carr University in 2013 and was the recipient of the Chancellor’s Award. She has exhibited in Montreal, Vancouver and Berlin. As a female sculptor she is invested in the history of 20th century sculpture and particularly in re-examining the heroic, the monumental, and the macho. She works predominantly in steel and seeks to parse the space between its associations with industry, weaponry and brutality, with its more subtle qualities such as pliability, versatility and slightness. By turning toward the intimate possibilities within sculpture, she hopes to open a space wherein a conversation about poetics and semiotics can take place alongside of the material and visceral experience of the work.
Opening reception April 24th, 2014. Exhibition running April 25th, 2014 through May 24th, 2014.
Field Contemporary is open to the public Tuesday-Friday 12pm-5pm, Saturday 1pm-6pm, and by appointment.
pictured above from left to right: ‘Time Traveler ll’, steel and oil, 26.5”X10”x12”, 2014 Vanessa Brown. ‘Loss for Words’, spray paint on linen, 30”x36”, 2014 Deirdre McAdams
