Transitory Space # 9
Transitory Space # 9 by Leah Oates
Black Cat Artspace
2186 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario M6R 1X3
Opening Reception on Feb 7 at 7 PM
On view through Feb 20th at 7 PM
Hours: Thursday to Sunday, Noon-6 pm
About Transitory Space # 9:
The Transitory Space series deals with urban and natural locations that are transforming due to the passage of time, altered natural conditions, and a continual human imprint. In everyone and in everything there are daily changes and this series articulates fluctuation in the photographic image and captures movement through time and space.
Transitory spaces have a messy human energy that is perpetually in the present yet continually altering. They are endlessly interesting, alive places where there is a great deal of beauty and fragility. They are temporary monuments to the ephemeral nature of existence.
Artist Biography:
Oates has B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design, an M.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a Fulbright Fellow for study at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland.
Oates has had solo shows in the NYC area at Susan Eley Fine Art, The Central Park Arsenal Gallery, Sara Nightingale Gallery, The Center for Book Arts, Real Art Ways, Artemisia Gallery and at The Brooklyn Public Library. In 2017, this series was featured in the MTA Arts and Design Lightbox Project at 42nd Street in NYC.
Oates has been part of group shows in NYC at The Pen and Brush Gallery, Metaphor Contemporary Art, NYOC Gallery, 440 Gallery, Nurture Art Gallery, Momenta Art, Associated Gallery, Susan Eley Fine Art and at Denise Bibro Fine Art.
Works on paper by Oates are in numerous public collections including the Harvard University Libraries, The Brooklyn Museum Artists' Book Collection, The Walker Art Center Libraries, The Smithsonian Libraries and the Franklin Furnace Archive at MoMA, NYC.
For additional information and images please contact Leah Oates or Andrew Williamson @ leah.oates@gmail.com and at contact@theblackcat.to
