Thursday, January 10, 2019 5:00 pm
-
8:00 pm
EST (GMT -05:00)
Gallery
One
Shake-n-Make
Once
More,
With
Feeling.
Shake-n-Make
specializes
in
the
mash-up
of
art
and
craft.
Their
work
revisits
home
hobby
crafts
from
the
1970s
to
address
issues
such
as
feminism,
environmentalism,
and
self-sufficiency
shared
in
common
with
our
contemporary
moment
in
which
farm-to-table
and
craft
brewing
have
become
a
part
of
the
cultural
zeitgeist.
Linked
by
the
use
of
modular
design
and
labour-intensive
production
Once
More,
With
Feeling
brings
together
several
large
sculptural
installations,
including
that
use
scale,
repetition,
and
a
willful
sense
of
playfulness
to
challenge
our
assumptions
around
handicrafts
while
questioning
what
is
appropriate
as
an
art
material.
Shake-n-Make
(Claudia
B.
Manley
and
Liss
Platt)
is
a
queer
art
collective
based
in
Hamilton.
They
have
exhibited
their
work
at
MKG127,
Art
Gallery
of
York
University,
Rodman
Hall
Art
Gallery,
The
Artists
Newsstand,
A
Handmade
Assembly,
Hamilton
Artists
Inc.,
and
been
awarded
grants
from
the
Ontario
Arts
Council.
Shake-n-Make
is
represented
by
MKG127,
Toronto.
Gallery
Two
Kristiina
Lahde
Extraordinary
Measures
Kristiina
Lahde
uses
elegant
conceptual
systems
to
make
sculptural
constructions,
collages,
and
photographs.
In
Extraordinary
Measures,
she
turns
her
attention
to
tools
for
measurement
by
systematically
reformatting
a
series
of
readymade
measuring
devices.
Vintage
yard
sticks,
cloth
measuring
tapes,
and
rulers
are
diseassembled
and
reconstructed.
In
reconfiguring
these
common
measuring
devices,
she
removes
their
function
and
suspends
the
ability
to
demarcate
linear
units
of
measure.
By
breaking
these
empirical
conventions,
the
artist
invites
us
to
imagine
data,
space,
and
distance
differently.
Kristiina
Lahde
is
a
Toronto-based
artist.
Recent
solo
exhibitions
include
In
and
Out
of
Order
at
OBORO,
Out
of
Line
at
MKG127,
and
Unfolding
at
the
Art
Gallery
of
Hamilton.
She
has
also
exhibited
at
the
Koffler
Gallery,
The
Power
Plant,
La
Biennale
de
Montréal,
and
was
long
listed
for
the
2013
Sobey
Art
Award.
Kristiina
Lahde
is
represented
by
MKG127,
Toronto.
The exhibitions run from January 10 to March 2, 2019.
Shake-n-Make, The Hand of Craft, 2017, (detail). Image courtesy of the artists..
Kristiina Lahde, From a Straight Line to a Curve, 2014 (detail). Image courtesy of the artist.