State of Flux Gallery

In the State of Flux Gallery:
Flight by Genna Kusch
7 August – 4 September, 2010
Reception: Saturday 7 August 2010 @7pm
Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, 21 Queen St., Kingston ON

In the State of Flux Gallery:
Watching Paint Dry by Andrew Sims
26 June – 24 July, 2010
Reception: Saturday 26 June 2010 @7pm
Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, 21 Queen St., Kingston ON

Kingston-based photographer Andrew Sims presents a meditation on media and mortality through an investigation of his camera’s abilities to capture the surfaces of things. In this new series of photographs, Sims attempts to disrupt the habits of perception.

Opening Reception: Saturday 15 May 2010 @ 7pm

In the State of Flux Gallery:
THE NUMBER OF DAYS
Carlyn Bezic, Cecily Taylor

State of Flux Space
Untitled Works on Paper, by JoAnn Ralph

Dream Temples is a sculptural project that incorporates the remains of nature and human civilization into cement structures. These hybrid architectonic structures reference sacred temples for the living and the dead, ancient dream temples, and temple forms that mark burial sites. Cement is the much used construction material of our times, having a utilitarian, impersonal, and indeed, even institutional quality. Cement is a monolithic product of a culture which has so greatly emphasized rational triumphs, through its temples of consumption and production.

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Marija Hamed has been an active member of the Kingston arts community since beginning her studies at Queen’s University in 2000. Working in encaustic collage, her style continues to evolve, including the incorporation of transfers of her black and white photographs. She incorporates subdued elements common in everyday landscapes, such as electrical posts, trees and birds, then builds layers of color and texture through alternate materials to further express what these objects lack in their anonymity. Marija currently lives and works in Waterloo, Ontario and the Boston, Massachusetts area.

As part of Cubafest, Kingston's celebration of Cuban culture, Modern Fuel presents, in the State of Flux Members' Gallery, "Shifting Light," photographs of Cuba by Elisa Paloschi. For filmmaker/photographer Elisa Paloschi, the camera navigates the delightful exploration of loose borders and imaginary space: where light and shadow meet and the mundanities of everyday reality merge with the splendours of imagination. Her work discovers the uncommon in the common, revealing the underpinnings of what is normal, telling secret-stories through the camera that might have otherwise been missed.

In the State of Flux Gallery, Sharon Thompson (Kingston, ON) presents a current project of mixed media on wood that evokes ‘story telling’ by incorporating hairpieces. These pieces encompass her formal instincts, and her predilection for structure and abstraction, but added to these is a focused narrative exposition.