Now dark -- now glittering -- now reflecting gloom --, 2010
Styrofoam and aluminum trim.
8' x 18'

Lauren Hall | review

March 31 - April 24, 2010

That Glaciers Store Energy So That They Become Fluorescent

opening April 3
2pm - 8pm

 

 

For her first solo exhibition in Peak Gallery’s main space, Lauren Hall presents a series of works that investigate travel, wonder and wilderness through proxies of touristic sites. Drawing on 19th century travel literature and contemporary home renovation practices, Hall posits abstract hybrid objects (such as Moonbow-Icebergs, Fireplace-Mountain Tunnels and Gold-Capped-Glaciers) as a means of considering the picturesque and the sublime.

 

 

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Hall uses building and packaging materials such as pallet wrap, polystyrene and bubble wrap as simulacrum for rock, snow and ice. Her sculptures, wall works and installations share with an affinity for post-minimalism and abstraction. She considers stereotypes, clichés and accepted notions of the outdoors, while thinking about natural phenomena like cloud formation, calving icebergs, shadow and fog.

Lauren Hall received her BA in Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo in 2006. Her recent exhibitions include Showcase.09 at Cambridge Galleries, Anonyme Zeichner, at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin and The Sun Has Turned To Glass, at The Department Gallery, Toronto. Later this year she will participate in a residency at the Vermont Studio Center.