September 15 - October 08, 2005

Lyn Carter | New Work

> opening Thursday, September 15 | 6 - 9pm

ArtsWeek Bus Tour | Sunday 25 September: Peak Gallery, the Koffler Gallery, the Blackwood Gallery and the Doris McCarthy Gallery team up for a free guided bus tour of their current exhibitions. Departs from Peak Gallery at 1pm and returns at 5pm. Call to reserve 416 636 1880 ext 270

Cornered, plastic platters and fabric , 61” x 46” 1”
Daisy Chain with Black, plastic platters golf ball and fabric,
75” x 59” x 1”

Cornered, plastic platters and fabric , 61” x 46” 1” (fragment)

Daisy Chain with Black, plastic platters golf ball and fabric,
75” x 59” x 1” (fragment)

Voice Over, plastic & metal platters and fabric,
57” x 84” x 2”
Cornered, plastic platters and fabric , 61” x 46” 1”

Voice Over, plastic & metal platters and fabric,
57” x 84” x 2” (fragment)

Untitled, plastic platters and fabric, 63” x 136” x 1/5”
Undercover, plastic platters and fabric 27.5” x 17.5 x 1”

Untitled, plastic platters and fabric, 63” x 136” x 1/5” (Fragment)

For her second solo exhibition at Toronto’s Peak Gallery, Lyn Carter creates a series of new sculptural works that exploit dollar store plates and platters for both their formal and symbolic potential. Skinned in various patterned fabrics, the platter form is featured in wall works that toy with its pedigree. When partially exposed, the kitsch renderings of country scenes and patterns on the platter’s surface are brought into play with the character of the cloth. When completely cloaked in fabric, the ovoid platter form can be seen distinct from its dollar store incarnation: a familiar domestic object, itself often prized and mounted.

In this exhibition these forms are multiplied and extended to create large works that engage the scale and space of the gallery. Somewhat flat to the wall, the works hover between a two dimensional and three dimensional reading. The quality of the cloth used for each work, its colour and type of pattern, all conspire to subvert and complicate any conventional associations with the overall form. Each work mines the commonplace for a larger view on the everyday.

The patterned cloth, itself a part of daily landscape, acts as both the surface and structure of these works. Pattern, with its network of regularly repeating elements, implies an infinitely expanding visual field. From this perspective these works might be seen as ordinary items clothed in the infinite.Lyn Carter lives near Grand Valley, Ontario. Incognito, a solo exhibition of her work is currently on view at The Koffler Gallery in Toronto and will be travelling to The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge and The Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound this fall and next spring. An accompanying catalologue for Incognito will be available in spring 2006.

The artist would like to thank the following for their generous support: