New art unveiled in Paul Christie Community Centre

June 18, 2009
6:00 pm

Paul Chrisite Community Centre
CAMH, 1001 Queen Street West

In March 2009, CAMH commissioned artist Jan Swinburne of Workman Arts to create a site specific work for the Paul Christie Community Centre located at CAMH's Queen Street site.

Plan to join us for the official unveiling of Jan's work, Tested Mettle, on June 18, 2009, at 6:00 pm.

Tested Mettle is a triptych consisting of wall mounted steel panels that are modified with acrylic mediums, pigments and oxidization. The dimension of each panel is five feet in width and eight feet in height. The piece weighs in at approximately 600 pounds.

Jan describes her work, "Like most of my recent work I create works that avail themselves to the ambient and random properties of light. Materials, like human beings have paradoxical and idiosyncratic behaviours. I have utilized these properties to stimulate lateral narratives. These are based on specific dichotomies such as strength and vulnerability. The work intends to highlight aesthetic values as the subjective experience of perception and submission to collective accord."

For more information about Jan Swinburne, please go to: www.myspace.com/janswinburne

For more information please contact:
Workman Arts
Telephone: 416 583-4339

Updated June 16, 2009