Laurie McGugan I InQuarries I April 23-May 4, 2014
Opening: Thursday, April 24th, 7 pm - 10 pm.
Hours: Wednesdays to Saturday 12 noon - 6 pm | Sunday 12- 5pm
An exhibition of a series of oil on gilcee photographs. Inspired by explorations of gravel pits in Ontario.
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InQuarries is a response to a visit I made to gravel pits in rural Ontario in 2010. It is a
hidden world, encircled by landscaped burns that block the public’s view. In the gravel
pit itself, men were moving gravel around with trucks and loaders like children playing
in a big sandbox. My work unveils this hidden world and plays with this idea by painting
large scale pails and shovels and other toys into the scene. The result provides a
comment on scale and innocence.