A series of temporary site-specific interventions that actively engage the landscape within an urban environment. Although the interventions now exist only as a visual and poetic documentation, the viewer is encouraged to seek and discover the locations through Google maps and GPS coordinates.
CITY SITES
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Gillian Iles’ practice consists of painting, sculpture and video and projection. She has exhibited locally & internationally in public institutions, university galleries, artist-run centres and commercial galleries. Her work has been highlighted in various publications, including Canadian Art. She is featured in the book Carte Blanche Volume 2: Painting. Gillian was a founding member of two artist-run galleries in Toronto – Loop & Propeller. She is currently based in Toronto. Gillian teaches at the OCAD University & Sheridan College.
Paintings, sculptures, constructions video and projection are the basis for creating installations incorporating both real and illusionary contexts as extensions of each other; transforming exhibition spaces into a composite of possible realities. The viewer is often considered to be the final element within the installation.
Lois Schklar’s work has been shown in exhibitions throughout Canada and the United States. She has received grants from the Toronto Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council. In 2013, she was awarded an OAC Multi/Integrated Arts Project Grant for ‘Collected Memories’, an installation with a professional dancer, musician and lighting designer. ‘Prototypes’ (2019), an exploration of sound, narrative, light and audience participation, was made possible through the Canada Council’s Explore and Create Grant (2018) and the Ontario Arts Council’s Exhibition Assistance Grant (2019).
Schklar’s ‘Timelines’, was selected for a Juror’s award at DesignTO 2019. ‘Timelines 2’ was accepted into the prestigious Cambridge Art Galleries, Fibreworks 2018 and ‘Timelines 3’ was shown in Excellence in Fibers at the San Jose Museum, California. In 2021, Schklar was chosen from over 500 applications to create artwork for a room in the newly renovated Gladstone Hotel, Toronto.
This project was made possible with the generous support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
