JEANNIE THIB
Expanded Fields
October 20 to November 17
Opening Saturday October 20, 3-6pm
Expanded Fields
October 20 to November 17
Opening Saturday October 20, 3-6pm
The sculptures, wall works and drawings in Expanded Fields
disrupt relationships
between architecture and ornament, between the
modern and the decorative.
In these works, decorative motifs become
building blocks and ornament is reconstructed
through cutting, stacking
and printing, and the use of industrial materials like neoprene,
aluminum, plywood and polystyrene.
Three-dimensional form is "extruded up" in layers from two-dimensional design,
suggesting 3D computer renderings and other forms of
architectural modelling.
The cube is referenced in several works, as is
the sectional architectural drawing.
Modular and grid-based, the works
engage with repetition and reproduction.
These features—of both
minimalist constructions and historic ornament—are key,
as is the
introduction of rogue elements, gaps and alternate strategies into those
ordered systems.
As Tila Kellman puts it "Jeannie Thib pursues the idea that ornament is world-making
to its logical conclusion. If ornament can generate
meaningful space, then what if
ornament rises into architecture?" from a text published in conjunction with the solo
exhibition "Compound: Ornament and Seduction," St. Francis Xavier
University
Gallery, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, 2009
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