In the exhibition Out of Print, Modern Fuel’s Artistic Director Kevin Rodgers explores the collection of print material in the Nan Yeomans Resource Library. Due to the diligent collecting of material by past board members and staff, the Resource Library has many unique and difficult to find items. Out of Print utilizes a range of local and national artists’ books, catalogues and printed matter to address issues of format, circulation and distribution.

Artists Statements is a photographic installation of five large (three feet by six feet) black and white portraits of local Kingston artists and their work by award-winning photographer Chris Miner. 

In the State of Flux Gallery, Michèle LaRose (Kingston, ON) presents a series of new paintings in a non-representational idiom experimenting with the use of a palette restricted primarily to the colour of white. After years of working with the National Museums of Canada and National Archives and as a management consultant, LaRose turned full-time to her painting in 2002.

Modern Fuel presents, in its State of Flux Gallery, a new installation of work and a performance by Kingston artist Lisa Figge titled I Can Only Make It Up Once. Exploring disability as a location of knowledge, Figge makes artworks such as experimental video and puppets to renegotiate the terms of living in a body that is no longer able-bodied. She is making artwork about how it feels to be in a differently mobile body.

Modern Fuel presents, in its State of Flux Gallery, a new installation titled Take Note, curated by Don Maynard (Kingston, ON). For the exhibition, Maynard invited artists in the community who have diverse interests, practices, and methods of artistic expression to share a record of their thoughts and documentation of their creative process.

Modern Fuel presents, in its State of Flux Gallery, a new installation of paintings by Ann Clarke (Thunder Bay, ON) entitled Edgewise. The focus of her current work is painting as painting, the picture plane, space and colour. Opaque and transparent images are layered, and reflections on the dichotomies of nature/nurture, sacred /profane, organic/manufactured, past/present, and wild/tame, are explored. Memory and cross-cultural influences also play a significant role.

Reception: Saturday 17 March 2012 @7pm

Reception: Saturday 14 January 2012 @7pm at Modern Fuel

Reception and catalogue launch: Saturday 12 November 2011 @7pm at Modern Fuel