OPEN SPACE-OPEN FRAME
Program, P.1963
- Identifier
- P.1963
- Category
- Visual Arts
- Date
- June 15 – July 7, 2007
- Description
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Visual artist Miles Hunter engages the Canadian landscape tradition from a diverse point of view. His painterly assemblage OPEN SPACE-OPEN FRAME is shaped by the history of landscape and by the changing elements of the architectural and urban environment. This installation has two parts, Subdivision and Truss, which “uses the organic and utilitarian aspects of timber as a catalyst and subject matter.” Hunter's project compresses construction, painting and site, and draws attention to an ever-changing urban landscape.
Hunter brings his work as a back framer in the construction industry to his art practice. Part of OPEN SPACE-OPEN FRAME refers to the timber framing materials used in construction. In another component of this work, Hunter reenacts industrial casting processes to re-create the unexpected surfaces revealed after plywood forms are removed from solidified concrete. Hunter's intervention animates the interior of Open Space and encapsulates a sensibility shaped by a materials-based approach to assemblage and painting.
Miles Hunter studied at St Martin's School of Art and received his MFA from the Chelsea School of Art, both in London, England. He has taught in post secondary art institutions in Canada and abroad and his work has been presented in group exhibitions, notably the survey exhibition Canadian Art in Britain at Canada House in 1981. Site-specific works include the Versatile Public Art Project in 1993. Previous solo exhibitions were hosted in London at the Showroom (1997) and the Phoenix Gallery (1985).