artist lecture: therese bolliger

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Art and Art History
and Oakville Galleries Presents

Therese Bolliger
in dialogue with curator
Shannon Anderson

Tuesday 9 February 2010
Bus leaves Sheridan from AA Wing Loop at 12:15 PM
Talk starts at 12:30 PM at Gairloch Gallery
A light lunch will be served

Gairloch Gallery, Oakville Galleries
1306 Lakeshore Road East, Oakville

Therese Bolliger Four Echoes Curated by Shannon Anderson
5 December 2010 - 28 February 2010
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens
This exhibition brings together a selection of recent drawings and sculptures by Toronto artist Therese Bolliger. Occupying the four gallery spaces of Gairloch Gardens, Four Echoes is an exploration of the essence of form, as Bolliger articulates memory’s place between past and present, translates mathematical and philosophical constructs into objects, and explores the outer reaches of the body.

Therese Bolliger Artist Statement
Since the mid-nineties, my practice has focused on the gaps between image and language, between object and viewer. A large body of wall-dependent text pieces addressed issues of reception of artworks.
The exhibition at Gairloch Gardens consists of three bodies of work, two series of works on paper and a group of floor sculptures. Fragments of forms, at the threshold of the perceptible, juxtaposed with elements of text, bring into consciousness specific works by artists with whom I have shared an aesthetic space and sensibility.
The floor sculptures, entitled Heffalumps suggest a slippage between what is animal and what is human. The idiosyncratic materials are destabilizing notions of abstraction, infusing the pieces with psychological connotations. There is a deliberate shift away from weighty substances and elaborate processes linked with traditional sculpture towards materials associated with the everyday. Abstract forms, derived from the context of knot theory act as a manifestation, a sensate residue of their process of production.
In the Interior Schema drawings, layered, abstract forms reference constructs of interiority and exteriority. They attempt to acknowledge and articulate the ephemeral nature of experience, memory and time.

Therese Bolliger Biography
Therese Bolliger was born in Switzerland where she studied at the Schools of Visual Arts in Berne and Basel before moving to Canada. She currently resides in Toronto. She has taught in the Visual Arts Department of the University of Guelph and at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Between 1983 and 2008 she was a professor in the Art and Art History Program.
Recent exhibitions include the following: Fray, Koffler Gallery, Toronto; The Cold City Years, The Power Plant, Toronto; Mask and Metamorphosis, Art Gallery of Hamilton; Ellipsis, Koffler Gallery, Toronto and University of Rochester; The Word in Contemporary Canadian Art, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto.

Shannon Anderson Biography
Shannon Anderson is a freelance writer, curator and editor based in Oakville, Ontario. Currently a member of Oakville Galleries Acquisition Committee, she was previously Curatorial Assistant and Registrar at Oakville Galleries for seven years, where she also curated such exhibitions as Burrow and numerous exhibitions from the permanent collection. Most recently, Anderson was Associate Editor for Designlines Toronto and Azure Magazine, publications dedicated to art, design and architecture.

Image: Therese Bolliger, Heffalump (2009)