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SUMMARY: Nowhereness
LOCATION:The Red Head Gallery
URL:http://www.blogto.com/events/56824
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:The Red Head Gallery presents Margie Kelk=E2=80=99s exhibition Nowhereness,=
 a mixed media installation.  Margie Kelk=E2=80=99s current work is concern=
ed with issues of pain, rootlessness, and alienation, in relation to online=
 and offline social networking sites. Her ceramic heads - their faces disto=
rted, filled with despair and sometimes hope - are placed among models of d=
isassembled computer components; they become components themselves, victimi=
zed or in control. The dialog that emerges veers between \'real,\' physical=
, and virtual ontologies; the pieces becomes sites of meditation. On one ha=
nd, for example, the elderly are swept aside in society\'s continuing aband=
onment of individuals deemed useless; on the other, the elderly may be empo=
wered by social networking. We\'re living in a time of high-speed cultural =
change; Kelk\'s work asks us to slow down and see what damage we may have c=
aused, what promises may yet be fulfilled.  (Alan Sondheim)


Margie Kelk has been exhibiting her artwork in Canada since 2000. She was o=
n the Board of the Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts (Toronto, Ontario) =
for eight years, and was Chair for six of them. Since 2009 she has been an =
active member of The Red Head Gallery (Toronto), and she is now gallery Cha=
ir. Her China-based books and drawings were represented by the Headbones Ga=
llery in 2006-7, and she was a member of Gallery 1313 in Toronto, from 2003=
 until 2007. She has been showing in Canada, the United States and Europe. =
She has received prizes for several of her works, and has been awarded gran=
ts by the Ontario Arts Council. Margie is a graduate of Wellesley College, =
The Johns Hopkins University (PhD.), and the Toronto School of Art degree p=
rogram.
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