Join us at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art on Friday, September 9th, from 6-8pm for a double opening reception for Alison Trim with Tethered and Christina Knittel with Processing...
This event is free and open to the public; registration is required. Tickets grant guests 1 free drink ticket. Light catering will be provided. You can register for this event here.
Tethered is the latest development of an ongoing project that layers and stitches cut paper into floor based installations, engaging with surface as a rich and complex interaction by Alison Trim. The thread of our inescapable connection to land that moves through the work is reflected in the title. Tethered is a phrase used when an animal is tied to restrict movement.
Alison Trim's practice demands a haptic engagement with materials and a physical immersion in place. Walking and other somatic engagements with land and place are intrinsic to her work, while drawing, photography, cutting and reassembling are the studio processes through which she interacts with ideas and materials. The resulting works are the artefacts of both, as much about the process of making as they are a record of phenomenological experience of land. This work was made across the Okanagan and Slocan Valley regions, unceded territories of the Syilx and Sinixt peoples.
Christina Knittel is an artist who creates abstract paintings using mixed media. As an intuitive, process-based artist, colour and mark-making are distinctive elements in Knittel’s work. By allowing the moment to determine what happens next, she makes room for the unexpected. Her paintings are dynamic and vibrant pieces of art, capturing the complexities of moving from moment to moment
In the last 2 years, overwhelming uncertainty in the world often made it difficult for Knittel to work in her usual process. The paintings included in Processing… are special because they represent moments of reconnecting with calm and joy within that uncertainty. These paintings are dynamic and vibrant, capturing the complexities of moving from moment to moment. They radiate a calm, joyful energy that she hopes people feel when they experience her work.