TRICIA MIDDLETON
The Rusty Toque | Issue 8 | Visual Art | June 30, 2015
Form
Is
the
Destroyer
of
Force,
Without
Severity
There
Can
Be
No
Mercy
exhibited
Oakvile
Galleries,
2012.
“Crones Room,” mixed media, dimensions variable.
“Crones Room,” mixed media, dimensions variable.
Form
Is
the
Destroyer
of
Force,
Without
Severity
There
Can
Be
No
Mercy
exhibited
Oakvilee
Galleries,
2012.
“Stalactiles Room,” mixed media, dimensions variable.
“Stalactiles Room,” mixed media, dimensions variable.
Working
Conditions
produced during an artist’s residency at ISCP in Brooklyn New York, 2013, exhibited at Jessica Bradley Gallery September 2014 as Making friends with yourself, mixed media, dimensions variable.
produced during an artist’s residency at ISCP in Brooklyn New York, 2013, exhibited at Jessica Bradley Gallery September 2014 as Making friends with yourself, mixed media, dimensions variable.
Working
Conditions
produced during an artist’s residency at ISCP in Brooklyn New York, 2013, exhibited at Jessica Bradley Gallery September 2014 as Making friends with yourself, mixed media, dimensions variable.
produced during an artist’s residency at ISCP in Brooklyn New York, 2013, exhibited at Jessica Bradley Gallery September 2014 as Making friends with yourself, mixed media, dimensions variable.
Counterproduction
produced during an artist’s residency at ISCP in Brooklyn New York, 2014, exhibited at Jessica Bradley Gallery September 2014 as Making friends with yourself, mixed media, dimensions variable.
produced during an artist’s residency at ISCP in Brooklyn New York, 2014, exhibited at Jessica Bradley Gallery September 2014 as Making friends with yourself, mixed media, dimensions variable.
Counterproduction
produced during an artist’s residency at ISCP in Brooklyn New York, 2014, exhibited at Jessica Bradley Gallery September 2014 as Making friends with yourself, mixed media, dimensions variable.
produced during an artist’s residency at ISCP in Brooklyn New York, 2014, exhibited at Jessica Bradley Gallery September 2014 as Making friends with yourself, mixed media, dimensions variable.
Embracing
ruin
and
oblivion
is
the
only
way
to
live
now
exhibited
at
Art
Gallery
of
Alberta
(2012)
and
Museum
of
Contemporary
Canadian
Art
(2014)
2012-‐2014, mixed media, dimensions variable (pictured 2014 iteration)
2012-‐2014, mixed media, dimensions variable (pictured 2014 iteration)
Embracing
ruin
and
oblivion
is
the
only
way
to
live
now
exhibited
at
Art
Gallery
of
Alberta
(2012)
and
Museum
of
Contemporary
Canadian
Art
(2014)
2012-‐2014, mixed media, dimensions variable (pictured 2014 iteration)
2012-‐2014, mixed media, dimensions variable (pictured 2014 iteration)
Made
in
France
Produced during an artist’s residency at Cité internationale des arts in Paris France 2014, exhibited at Dunlop Gallery, 2015, mixed media with painting, dimensions variable.
Produced during an artist’s residency at Cité internationale des arts in Paris France 2014, exhibited at Dunlop Gallery, 2015, mixed media with painting, dimensions variable.
Made
in
France
Produced during an artist’s residency at Cité internationale des arts in Paris France 2014, exhibited at Dunlop Gallery, 2015, mixed media with painting, dimensions variable.
Produced during an artist’s residency at Cité internationale des arts in Paris France 2014, exhibited at Dunlop Gallery, 2015, mixed media with painting, dimensions variable.
TRICIA MIDDLETON'S sculptures and architectural installations propose hypothetical reverberations of a culture built around the unfettered production and consumption of inexpensive, disposable items of so-called use. Fascinated by the inevitable decline of all material towards collapse, Middleton zealously hoards and then repurposes the cast-offs from her studio production, amassing and grafting them onto one another to create synthetic objects and environments that mimic natural processes of accretion and decomposition. Her work traces the migration of form and meaning over time and, in so doing, strives to elucidate and overcome our heedless, if not apathetic attitude toward material culture.
Middleton was the recipient of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Visual Arts in 2010. Her recent solo exhibitions have been mounted at Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal (2009); Southern Alberta Art Gallery (2009); Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver (2011); Mercer Union, Toronto (2011); and Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ont. (2012). Recent group exhibitions include Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (2012); Nothing to Declare: Recent Sculpture from Canada, The Power Plant, Toronto (2010); the inaugural Quebec Triennial, Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal (2008); and De-con-structions, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2007). Her work has been collected by the Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal. Website: http://www.triciamiddleton.net/