Jamie Qʼs Make-Believe is an exhibition in two parts, the first of which takes place at Torontoʼs Art Metropole. Londonʼs Parker Branch suspends its regular programming to host Part Two. The focus shifts to individual works in paper-mâché.
“Jamie Qʼs work asks itself whether it can, or aims to, support critique or any meaningful content outside of its own formal construction. Can a colourful lump of paper-mâché bear, or be the bearer of critique, and should it? There is a modesty in scale and ambition in the work that attests its DIY origins. It shares in the immediacy of zines (associated early on with trading by mail) and small editions of inexpensive objects. It circulates in an economy so small that the immaterial content that it does bear shares something of the intimate quality of gifts. Her work is rarely larger than a bicycle basket and about as heavy as a birthday cake. It performs a curious inversion where commodities—abstract, decorative, candy-like objets dʼart—as the product of real physical and measured labour, enact an unexpected critique of the commodification of creativity.”
– Jason Hallows, Co-Director of Parker Branch, from Intersections
Parker Branch
99 1/2 Stanley Street, London, ON
August 11 - 15, 2010
open 2-5pm
Reception: Sunday, August 15, 2-5pm
Catalogue launch
Intersections is a catalogue of the 2010 MFA thesis exhibitions by John Cushnie, Soheila K. Esfahani, Kelly OʼDette and Jamie Q. It includes essays by Jason Hallows, Trista E. Mallory, Jennifer Orpana, and Matthew Ryan Smith, with an introduction by David Merritt.
Intersections launches Friday, August 20, 2010 at 7:00pm at The University of Western Ontarioʼs McIntosh Gallery
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Make-Believe is Jamie Qʼs MFA thesis exhibition and first major solo show, presented in conclusion of her graduate studies at The University of Western Ontario. Jamie Q received her BFA in sculpture from the Alberta College of Art & Design in 2002, and was a member of the Long Haul artistsʼ collective in Montreal for four years. She has distributed her solo and collaborative self-published art zines at small press fairs across Canada and the United States, and via Halifax INK and the RCAAQ at Printed Matterʼs New York Art Book Fair. Her work was included in Vancouverʼs The Cheaper Show No. 9, and her collaborative Journey Through Time & Shapes project with James Kirkpatrick was showcased in Time & Shapes: Recent Acquisitions at St. Maryʼs University Art Gallery in Halifax. Her work will also be included in the YOU-TUBE-IT International Juried Art Competition at Torontoʼs Peak Gallery August 5 – September 4, 2010, and is available online at http://jamieq.net.
