PLOT

Program, P.1829

Identifier: P.1829
Category: Visual Arts
Date: May 23 – July 11, 2003
Description: Opening: May 23 @ 8pm
Artist’s Talk: May 24 @ noon
Toronto artist James Carl likes to mix things up—to confound references and test limits and then step back and watch things get funny. He combines a precise examination of the lexicon of sculpture with an abiding interest in the artifacts of public social life, filtered through the ubiquitous technologies and materials of contemporary industrialism. PLOT could be a story, a secret conspiracy, or a piece of real estate. Or perhaps the title refers to the activity of plotting the coordinates of the digital renderings that adorn various surfaces of artworks. Combining sculpture with graphic work, Plot demonstrates Carl's contrary approach to traditional artistic methods and materials, and the ways these things are both conditioned and altered by expectation and use.