Turned Intos: Scott August, Bracken H'anuse Corlett, and Sarah Fuller
Turned Intos: an exchange show with the Alternator Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, November 21, 6-9:00PM
On View: November 21st-December 20th, 2008
"every human has the ability to dream" – Sarah Fuller
"let animals party and exist in awkward situations with man" – Scott August
"this piece started first with the story: 'The Boy Who Turned into a Salmon,' an oral story from home. In this story I found similarities to my own story" – Bracken H'anuse Corlett
The Alternator Gallery is thrilled to announce that it will be sending in November three dynamic, emerging artists to Chicago's Three Walls Gallery: Scott August, Bracken H'anuse Corlett, and Sarah Fuller.
August, a Kelowna-based artist, will be exhibiting "Wildness" – a series of prints that further the artist's fascination with animals and, more generally, with popular conceptions of 'nature.' August's work is playful but also highly disconcerting as it tends to reshape binary divisions between human and animal, interior and exterior, cute and sinister.
River Lobster. Scott August, 2006.
H'anuse Corlett is also an Okanagan-based multimedia artist and a member of the Wuikinuxv, Heiltsuk, and Klahoose peoples. He will be exhibiting his new work "Quqva" in Chicago. This meditative and urgent piece includes painting, video, and performance elements. "Quqva" was born out of H'anuse Corlett's documentary video work in his Wuikinuxv home territory. Interwoven with images of the landscape is a captivating soundscape and a carved mask (also by the artist) that tells a version of the traditional story about "The Boy Who Turned into a Salmon."
(dis)PLACE. Bracken H’anuse Corlett, 2008.
Fuller is a Winnipeg-born artist whose work is primarily photography-based. At Three Walls she will be exhibiting, "Dream Log" – this is the artist's utterly intriguing investigation into the mystery of dreams. In "Dream Log," Fuller creates her own sleep lab, of sorts, in which she invites people to take a pin-hole camera and a journal home with them in order to record their dreams.
Dream. Sarah Fuller, February 24, 2008.
Whether interested in the reshapings that the night-mind works on the day's events, or the reinvention of a boy as a fish, or even the changes to our conventional ways of seeing animal-human relations, each of the Chicago Exchange artists is also preoccupied with questions of transformation.
Links:
Turned Intos in the Kelowna Capital News
Turned Intos in Time Out Chicago