Homer Watson Boulevard (Pick up), 2007 Oil on Canvas, 12" x 16" Monica Tap Séance Thatcher Projects is pleased to announce the opening of "Séance", an exhibition of paintings by Toronto-based painter Monica Tap. This is the artist's first solo show in New York City. Tap recently completed a residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York. The paintings in the exhibition are from Tap's "Grand River" series. The paintings respond to the 19th century pastoral painter Homer Watson's 1879 trip down the Grand River. Tap's series of video-based paintings rework the tradition of landscape painting through their engagement with video source images. Tap took her own trip down the river accompanied by her digital camera. She captured the landscape with the low-resolution video of a digital camera and distilled it into a series of still images. Multiple stills were then combined and projected onto the canvas and then the artist reacted to the stills in paint. Likewise, the "Road to Lily Dale" paintings in the exhibition come from footage of the drive to the Spiritualist center in upstate New York visited by Watson during his lifetime. Tap's paintings bring together past and present, dead and living. The exhibition raises questions of place, time and authorship. Working in the dark, using video images as source material, Tap reminds us that the medium of paint is haunted by its history. Exhibition: May 10 - June 16, 2007 Gallery hours: Tues-Sat 11 am - 6 pm Margaret Thatcher Projects 511 West 25th Street, 4th Floor USA-New York, NY 10011 Telephone +1 212 675 0222 Fax +1 212 675 1121 Email margaret@thatcherprojects.com www.thatcherprojects.com |
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