June 2009
La Petite Mort Gallery presents…
MEAGHAN HAUGHIAN & KARINA KRAENZLE
ELSEWHERE – Drawings & Mixed Media
One Month Exhibit
June 5 – 28, 2009
Vernissage: Friday June 5 / 7 – 10pm
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It’s also Meaghan’s birthday!!
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Elsewhere – it’s neither here nor there, nor even necessarily “in between.” It
exists only in opposition. You might say elsewhere doesn’t exist at all – other
than as an idea or an emotion.
Both Haughian and Kraenzle use home as their starting point – home, the physical
structure, but also home, the keeper of our emotional and psychological selves.
Each artist creates scenes that reference interior spaces but explores them
using a very different approach. Yet in both cases, these are rooms
transformed into sites of uncertainty, where fact and fiction occasionally
trade places and sometimes even mysteriously merge. They are empty and
ambiguous spaces, but they reverberate with an undeniable presence.
For Haughian, home is a feeling. The most intimate and personal of spaces, it
is our daily dependence and nightly protection. The pieces in this exhibition
challenge the presumed stability of ones environment. Creating rooms that
extend while remaining enclosed, they breathe and suffocate simultaneously.
These images attempt to negotiate the fine line between invitation and
intrusion.
In Kraenzle’s body of work, home operates as a psychic, rather than a geographic
site – a site under perpetual construction. These pieces hover between fact
and fiction, between object and symbol. The result is an uneasy interchange,
one that lies beyond the realm of the ordinary, most likely elsewhere…
Thank you,
Guy Berube, director
La Petite Mort Gallery