Lois Andison
relay
Gallery One + Two
Co-presented by the Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto Scarborough (Sept 2–Nov 8, 2014), Rodman Hall Art Centre/Brock University (Oct 21, 2014–Jan 18, 2015), and the University of Waterloo Art Gallery (Sept 11–Nov 1, 2014).
This exhibition has been made possible with the generous support of the Bob Harding and Lois Claxton HSS Endowment Fund, Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Exhibition Info
relay is a mid-career survey exhibition investigating the multidisciplinary art of Lois Andison. Representing a fifteen-year period of artistic production that ranges from kinetic sculpture to video to text-based works, this portion of the multi-venue survey features two significant large installations solving man ray’s obstruction and the floor’s the limit, alongside several new works created specifically for the exhibition, including nudging marcel and salt, sugar, sweet, sour. While many of her recent works draw heavily on the influence of 20th century masters, including Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp and Picasso, they also challenge and provoke the orthodoxy of this Modernist hierarchy. Andison’s artworks engage equally the body and mind with complex engineering that results in elegant minimalist constructions.
Photography: Toni Hafkenscheid
Artist Biography
Lois Andison is a Canadian-born artist whose multidisciplinary practice ranges from kinetic sculpture, to video and text-based installations. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in Toronto, Montréal, Lethbridge, Mexico City, Boston, Buffalo and New York. Her work can be found in private and corporate collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Bank of Montreal and Donovan Collection. She is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo and lives in Toronto. Lois Andison is represented by Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto and Art Mûr, Montréal.