"What Lies Beneath": work by Laura Bydlwoska, Susan Cunningham, Jae Lee, Liz Menard, Jennie Suddick and Daryl Vocat, 2013
What Lies Beneath features work by Laura Bydlowska, Susan Cunningham, Jae Lee, Liz Menard, Jennie... more What Lies Beneath features work by Laura Bydlowska, Susan Cunningham, Jae Lee, Liz Menard, Jennie Suddick and Daryl Vocat, six Open Studio artist members interpreting the theme of urban myths, both broadly and specifically. An urban myth is an apocryphal story that circulates on the margins of society, often incorporating elements of mystery, horror, or humour, which although extreme in detail are just plausible enough to be believed as true. Passed down from individual to individual, urban myths are of indeterminate origin, yet are generally attributed to a reliable second-hand source – “a friend of a friend” – which lends them validity. They play on our collective fears of the perceived dangers that lurk on the edges of our communities beyond our control, especially where and when social rules are transgressed. Incorporating printerly strategies of replication and repetition, these artists engage narrative visions of the social environment that hover between truth and fiction, history and myth.
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Papers by Jenn Law
Law writes: "Sometimes it is not the knowledge or the technology that is new, but the way in which it is combined with other technologies that is innovative. Along these lines, this paper builds upon my previous writing on the practice of 'transference' in relation to graphic knowledge and the ways in which artists employ print-based pedagogies to 'think' about making art. Here, contemporary print-based practice is understood not simply as an assortment of technological skills to be acquired and employed, but rather as a set of unique aesthetic and conceptual problem-solving strategies that may be transferred and applied across diverse media. Indeed, the future of print may not rely as much on the evolution of the machine - the press, the printer, the associated materials - as in the ways in which we think about and with print "
search of “an embodied experience of landscape”.
https://www.yyzartistsoutlet.org/2020/09/tracing-a-line-by-jenn-law/
Books by Jenn Law
Published in Printopolis, Tara Cooper and Jenn Law, eds. (Toronto: Open Studio, 2016), pp. 158-173.
Law writes: "Sometimes it is not the knowledge or the technology that is new, but the way in which it is combined with other technologies that is innovative. Along these lines, this paper builds upon my previous writing on the practice of 'transference' in relation to graphic knowledge and the ways in which artists employ print-based pedagogies to 'think' about making art. Here, contemporary print-based practice is understood not simply as an assortment of technological skills to be acquired and employed, but rather as a set of unique aesthetic and conceptual problem-solving strategies that may be transferred and applied across diverse media. Indeed, the future of print may not rely as much on the evolution of the machine - the press, the printer, the associated materials - as in the ways in which we think about and with print "
search of “an embodied experience of landscape”.
https://www.yyzartistsoutlet.org/2020/09/tracing-a-line-by-jenn-law/
Published in Printopolis, Tara Cooper and Jenn Law, eds. (Toronto: Open Studio, 2016), pp. 158-173.