OPEN SPACE-OPEN FRAME
OPEN SPACE-OPEN FRAME
Painting / Assemblage by Miles Hunter
Gallery Scale installation of Open Space - Open Frame
June 15 - July 7, 2007
Visual artist Miles Hunter engages the Canadian landscape tradition from diverse points of view. His painterly assemblage OPEN SPACE-OPEN FRAME is shaped by the history of landscape and by the changing elements of the architectural and urban environment. The installation has two parts, Subdivision and Truss, and “uses the organic and utilitarian aspects of timber as a catalyst and subject matter.” Hunter's project compresses construction, painting and site, and draws attention to an ever-changing urban landscape.
Hunter brings his work as a back framer in the construction industry to his art practice. Part of OPEN SPACE-OPEN FRAME refers to the timber framing materials used in construction. In another component of this work, Hunter reenactes industrial casting processes to re-create the unexpected surfaces revealed after plywood forms are removed from solidified concrete. Hunter's intervention animates the interior of Open Space and encapsulates a sensibility shaped by a materials-based approach to painting through assemblage.
Miles Hunter studied at the Banff Centre, St Martin's and Wimbeldon Schools of Art and received his MFA in 1981 from the Chelsea School of Art, London, England. He has taught in post secondary art institutions in Canada and abroad. He has shown his work in many group exhibitions, however, primarily Miles Hunter has focused his career work and exhibitions through site specific and assemblage installation, both solo and collaborative.
Subdivision (detail) - 48" x 36" x 4" oil paint on plywood
Adit - digital photo from laser photocopy from instamatic photo
Burl - 36" x 48" x 4" pencil, charcoal, ink and coal pigment on paper under glass