Preview - Pictionary Vernissage with Artist Talk

Pictionary is an exhibition of recent work by Concordia students Darcy Cooke and Jessica Campbell. The two bodies of work engage in a sense of play and implement rich use of colour, texture and scale in both photography and painting. While not all of the work relate directly to games, they all invoke feelings of games and playfulness through their material and subject matter.

PICTIONARY
MAY 19TH TO 30TH, 2008
VERNISSAGE MAY 20TH, 7 – 9, ARTIST TALK 6:30
GALERIE VAV GALLERY, 1395 RENE LEVESQUE OUEST

Pieces by Jessica Campbell:

The paintings in Pictionary are about an image’s relationship with semiotics—
signs, as well as a sign’s dependence on multiplicity of representational factors
like an unexpected colour, texture or line quality; each of which affects the
potential meanings of an image. The forms act as margins for the transcription
of the language of colour and materiality, rather than signs equivalent to
language. Strong and inviting colours act as bait convincing the viewer to engage
in a dialogue with what is represented—ultimately, a jigsaw puzzle with no
solution. What was the decorative is overwhelmed with an excess of colour,
thus becoming hyper-decorative, excessive and distasteful.

Pieces by Darcy Cooke:

The series “Some Scans” is a playful engagement with the materials and the
process of one of the many contemporary tools of image making available to
artists today. The simple scanning of objects with the digital flat bed scanner
allows for an examination of scale, colours, texture, negation and other ideas
which interest visual artists. Working in a painterly fashion, these photographic
images also convey a melancholic sense of loss and sadness.