i like my bike. and summer. and words. sometimes i take pictures. sometimes i walk around and look at plants. sometimes i take pictures of plants. and other nonhuman things. i love music but i can't watch rock shows anymore. i'd rather dance*******************************************************
*****************I also put on art exhibitions at Montréal's Mile End Cultural Centre......Amanda Rhodenizer's art show entitled No More Wild Ones consists of a
series of acrylic paintings that contain certain absences, displaced
animals and elements which may cause your consumerist impulses to irk.
Her works appear to critique a lack of natural elements in the modern
urbanite's (or suburbanite's) daily life and how this loss is made up
for with banal objects such as fake plants, stylish console tables,
and lamps shaped like maggots. However the artist does attempt to make
the audience remember their wild side by inserting animals into the
imagined domesticated space of her paintings and therefore provides a
certain nightmarish quality resonating from the total commodification
of these nostalgic creatures. Her work demands the viewer to complete
the scene or perhaps the incompleteness of them all is a reflection of
the viewer's own lack of something else that can only be compensated
with one of her canvases hanging in their living room underneath a
Kryssbo Ikea wall lamp. Rhodenizer's work immediatly grabs your
attention and cleverly exploits your consumerist gaze in that she
acknowledges your appetite to return to the wild, and fulfills this
void through a safe canvas that you can take home.--text by Salma Shariff--No More Wild Ones opens at Green Room with a vernissage THIS FRIDAY APRIL 4th, 8-11PM. 5386 St-Laurent. The exhibition runs till May 4th, 2008.
