Graeme Patterson | Grudge Match
Karilee Fuglem | steady streams, living rooms

GRAEME PATTERSON
Grudge Match
May 15 – September 5, 2010

Executed in Graeme Patterson’s signature style, Grudge Match imagines a freestyle wrestling match between the artist and his long-lost childhood friend, Yuki. Best friends at the age of 5, Patterson lost touch with Yuki once his friend returned to Japan four years later. Through sculptural installation and stop-motion animation, puppets of Patterson and Yuki as teenagers engage in a fictional match in a high school gymnasium. A conflation of personal experience and emotional memory, the installation recreates and plays with Patterson’s memories of his first best friend, exploring boyhood rivalry and the bonds of friendship.

KARILEE FUGLEM
steady streams, living rooms
May 28 – August 22, 2010

Working with simple materials such as nylon monofilament and clear plastic, Montreal-based artist, Karilee Fuglem explores the intangible and the barely visible, giving form to that which is often overlooked. The weightlessness and organic nature of her work belies the labour-intensive process of hand-weaving and looping kilometer upon kilometer of thread into large-scale installations that alter the viewer’s perception of space and movement through the gallery. In a site-specific exhibition for the Hansen Gallery, Fuglem responds to Rodman Hall and the surrounding area, referencing the natural world and exploring the history of the mansion and its inhabitants.

Rodman Hall Art Centre / Brock University
109 St. Paul Crescent, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 1M3
TEL 905.684.2925
FAX 905.682.4733
www.brocku.ca/rodmanhall

Gallery Hours
Tuesday & Wednesday: 11 am to 5 pm
Thursday: 11 am to 9 pm
Friday: 11 am to 5 pm

Saturday: 10 am to 5 pm

Sunday: 11 am to 5 pm
Closed Monday and statutory holidays.
Admission is free