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Common Threads
Kathryn Dain
16.6.07 - 14.7.07
Opening event Saturday 16th June 3 – 6 p.m.
twenty+3 projects is pleased to present Common Threads an exhibition by Canadian artist Kathryn Dain.
Dain will be showing four works: Sphere, a floor based sculptural piece made from a wrapped half kilometre of paper, six heat transfered images on metal of yarn from the Yarn series, a collection of untitled black and white oil based drawings and a house wooden shaped, fabric wrapped, from the House Grid series.
Dain’s works are journeys both personally and art historically governed. Referencing Beuys, Duchamp and post Minimalist women artists as Agnes Martin and Louise Bourgeois, she brings a contemporary use to traditional and familiar everyday materials: fabrics, paper, found objects and transforms them through a labour intensive meditative process into evocative works. Dawn White Beatty in recent catalogue essay has written “Her vocabulary of visual symbols is purposefully minimal – spheres, squares, spirals, crosses and simple domestic forms reduce distractions and focus the energy of the discourse – a potent power is condensed into these shapes.”
Kathryn Dain has exhibited widely in Canada and Europe. Her work is in numerous public and private collections. Common Threads is her first UK exhibition.