Expanded Field - 2012
Wireframe - 2009
"Model" (the white Carrara marble") was a wow.
Model - 2003
"Slope" (dark green marble) very ominous.. . . .
(see Block (Expanded Version) - 2007, of the same set)
Block (Expanded Version) - 2007
I also enjoyed her black "views" - particularly "Column".
Cube, Section, Column - 2012 (installation view)
David says: go see this show!
JEANNIE THIB
Hyperflat
Curated by Tila Kellman
Organized and circulated by Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery
September 21 – December 1, 2013
Hot Talk: Jeannie Thib and Tila Kellman, Thursday, October 3, 7 pm
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 3, 8 pm
Ornamental motifs are distilled and reconfigured in Jeannie Thib: Hyperflat. Toronto artist Jeannie Thib borrows decorative patterns from textiles and domestic surfaces, reconstitutes them through operations of cutting and piling, and reinvents them with magnification, repetition and excision. Thib translates historical designs into contemporary industrial materials, and extends them into three dimensional, sculptural forms.
In Thib's manipulation of ornament, Curator, Tila Kellman sees a critique of modernist, rectilinear space and our built environment. Kellman writes: “Thib begins her exploration by contesting the relationship between ornament and viewers. Ornamentation in our daily lives is usually small, adorning our furniture, dishes and clothes. Even most architectural ornament is small enough not to challenge the scale of our bodies (columns being an exception). Thib’s small architectural-like models gleam in wood, Plexiglas, steel, aluminum and marble. They have a jewel-like beauty augmented by their containment in vitrines that seduces viewers to wander visually through them and accept them as miniature worlds.”
www.brocku.ca/rodman-hall/exhibitions
see jeannie's web site: jeanniethib.ca/Sculpture.html
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