LAURA MOORE
The Rusty Toque | Issue 9 | Visual Art | November 15, 2015
Curbside. Palmerston Boulevard.
Photograph. 10 ½ x 14 inches. Toronto, ON. 2013
Photograph. 10 ½ x 14 inches. Toronto, ON. 2013
Curbside. Ruskin Avenue.
Photograph. 14 x 14 inches. Toronto, ON. 2013
Photograph. 14 x 14 inches. Toronto, ON. 2013
Curbside. Macaulay Avenue.
Photograph. 14 x 14 inches. Toronto, ON. 2013
Photograph. 14 x 14 inches. Toronto, ON. 2013
Curbside. York Street.
Photograph. 14 x 10 inches. London, ON. 2014
Photograph. 14 x 10 inches. London, ON. 2014
Curbside. Dovercourt Road.
Photograph. 10½ x 14 inches. Toronto, ON. 2013
Photograph. 10½ x 14 inches. Toronto, ON. 2013
Curbside. Markham Street.
Photograph. 14 x 14 inches. Toronto, ON. 2013
Photograph. 14 x 14 inches. Toronto, ON. 2013
One Man's Junk.
Hand-carved Indiana Limestone, Pallet. 42 x 32 x 30 inches.
2014-2015. Art Gallery of Windsor
Photo: Paul Cimoroni
Hand-carved Indiana Limestone, Pallet. 42 x 32 x 30 inches.
2014-2015. Art Gallery of Windsor
Photo: Paul Cimoroni
One Man's Junk.
Hand-carved Indiana Limestone, Pallet. 42 x 32 x 30 inches.
2014-2015. Art Gallery of Windsor
Photo: Paul Cimoroni
Hand-carved Indiana Limestone, Pallet. 42 x 32 x 30 inches.
2014-2015. Art Gallery of Windsor
Photo: Paul Cimoroni
One Man's Junk.
Hand-carved Indiana Limestone, Pallet. 42 x 32 x 30 inches.
2015. Aarhus, Denmark
Photo: Paul Cimoroni
Hand-carved Indiana Limestone, Pallet. 42 x 32 x 30 inches.
2015. Aarhus, Denmark
Photo: Paul Cimoroni
One Man's Junk.
Hand-carved Indiana Limestone, Pallet. 42 x 32 x 30 inches.
2015. Aarhus, Denmark
Hand-carved Indiana Limestone, Pallet. 42 x 32 x 30 inches.
2015. Aarhus, Denmark
Curbside │ One Man’s Junk
There’s a pedestrian bridge in Toronto’s west end; it’s built above a series of train tracks. A few years ago, I walked over it; looked down and noticed a computer monitor on the tracks below. The monitor’s screen faced upward, as if it was looking up at me. This occurrence made me pause and wonder why? Was this object so useless and undesirable that it deserved to be discarded in such a dramatic way? The monitor marked a moment for me, a time and place; it became an icon for every other out-dated, unwanted computer monitor in the world. After this experience I began to notice a lot of electronics being discarded around the city; Curbside is a photographic collection of these occurrences. I began collecting the objects and carving them out of limestone; a material that mimics the 1990s electronics’ beige plastic, designed to be neutral. The materiality of stone, historically used for monuments and sculptures, highlights the weight and scale of these devices and also commemorates the pc uprising. One Man’s Junk explores the tensions between the monumental and the handheld, the disposable and the permanent, and the interactive and the inert.
Biography
LAURA MOORE is a Toronto based artist originally from Chatham Ontario. Her practice is interdisciplinary, working in sculpture, wood relief, drawing and photography. Moore has exhibited internationally at venues such as; Sculpture by the Sea (Aarhus, Denmark), Indianapolis Art Center (Indiana), Art in Odd Places (NYC), Art Gallery of Windsor, Grunt Gallery (Vancouver), CAFKA (Kitchener), Stride Gallery (Calgary), Thames Art Gallery (Chatham) and Anna Leonowens (Halifax). Website: lauramoore.ca
There’s a pedestrian bridge in Toronto’s west end; it’s built above a series of train tracks. A few years ago, I walked over it; looked down and noticed a computer monitor on the tracks below. The monitor’s screen faced upward, as if it was looking up at me. This occurrence made me pause and wonder why? Was this object so useless and undesirable that it deserved to be discarded in such a dramatic way? The monitor marked a moment for me, a time and place; it became an icon for every other out-dated, unwanted computer monitor in the world. After this experience I began to notice a lot of electronics being discarded around the city; Curbside is a photographic collection of these occurrences. I began collecting the objects and carving them out of limestone; a material that mimics the 1990s electronics’ beige plastic, designed to be neutral. The materiality of stone, historically used for monuments and sculptures, highlights the weight and scale of these devices and also commemorates the pc uprising. One Man’s Junk explores the tensions between the monumental and the handheld, the disposable and the permanent, and the interactive and the inert.
Biography
LAURA MOORE is a Toronto based artist originally from Chatham Ontario. Her practice is interdisciplinary, working in sculpture, wood relief, drawing and photography. Moore has exhibited internationally at venues such as; Sculpture by the Sea (Aarhus, Denmark), Indianapolis Art Center (Indiana), Art in Odd Places (NYC), Art Gallery of Windsor, Grunt Gallery (Vancouver), CAFKA (Kitchener), Stride Gallery (Calgary), Thames Art Gallery (Chatham) and Anna Leonowens (Halifax). Website: lauramoore.ca
