DAVID BLATHERWICK (CANADA)

David Blatherwick David Blatherwick (1960) lives and works in Montreal where he is represented by Galerie Lilian Rodriguez. David Blatherwick has intrigued for some years with works from two medias, video and painting.    Project for the Biennale David Blatherwick, Suspension, 2002 Video installation David Blatherwick, 2002 Oil on canvas Meshworks, by David Blatherwick "Most often I begin a painting with no vision of its final outcome. Using a vocabulary of basic structures, a freehand grid for example, I simply start some place on the empty canvas. Then somewhere else perhaps with a series of linked loops. Eventually these two networks move toward each other, collide and overlap: competing with each other to occupy the space. Others follow and so it goes. Now the individual elegance of a grid or looping line is lost into the noise of coexisting elements in the developing meshwork. The work progresses like this toward a certain woven density at which the painting seems alive. Alert. As if something where about to happen. While this approach could have to do with an automatist view of art making, it also comes out of response to technological and social changes that may be in the process of changing our perception of life and life forms. Acceptance of chaotic and self-organizing systems, the body as a hybrid form, the emergence of a centreless information network, and even the liberal idea of the multicultural society are all born from meshworks. That is, heterogeneous components combining to make an unpredictable yet viable forms. Unlike modernist idealism, this outlook is inclusive and robust; giving way to a state of complexity that is surprising, real, fascinating. A state I prefer in art over any."    Works Shown at the 3rd Biennale de Montréal David Blatherwick, Painting Where You Come out on Top, 2001 Oil on canvas 46 x 46 cm 1. Painting Where You Come out on Top, 2001 Oil on canvas 46cm x 46cm Courtesy of the artist and the Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal 2. Painting Where I Come out on Top, 2002 Oil on canvas 46cm x 46cm Courtesy of the artist and the Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal 3. Hyperlinear Spasm, 2002 Oil on canvas 200cm x 200cm Courtesy of the artist and the Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal 4. La Cienaga, 2002 Oil on canvas 200cm x 200cm Courtesy of the artist and the Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal 5. This Could Be Anywhere, 2002 Oil on canvas 200cm x 200cm Courtesy of the artist and the Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal 6. Six Minutes, 2002 Oil on canvas 205cm x 140cm Courtesy of the artist and the Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal 7. Thirteen Minutes, 2002 Oil on canvas 205cm x 140cm Courtesy of the artist and the Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal 8. Suspension, 2002 Video installation Courtesy of the artist and the Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal    Solo Exhibitions (selection) 2002 The Interior of a Minute, YYZ, Toronto (Ontario), Canada 2001 Oeuvres récentes, Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal (Québec), Canada The Interior of a Minute, YYZ, Toronto (Ontario), Canada 2000 Recent Paintings, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto (Ontario), Canada    Group Exhibitions (selection) 2002 La 3e Biennale de Montréal - 2002, Montréal (Québec), Canada Vidéo Naïve, Musée des Beaux-arts de Nantes, France 2001 The Good Place, Tai-Chung Cultural Center, Taiwan Métamorphose et Clônage, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal (Québec), Canada (cat.) Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal (Québec), Canada Closet Practices, Trianon Gallery, Lethbridge (Alberta), Canada Plein ciel, Musée d'art urbain: intervention extérieure au Marché Bonsecours, Montréal (Québec), Canada 2000 Encuentro international de arte y communidad rurales, San José de Ocoa, Dominican Republic Glo, Archive Inc., Toronto (Ontario), Canada Galerie Art-Mûr, Montréal (Québec), Canada    David Blatherwick on the Web  Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art

ARTISTS VISUAL ARTS   David Blatherwick   Cai Guo-Qiang   Casagrande      & Rintala   Colette   Marcel Dzama   Graham Gillmore   Betty Goodwin   Angela Grauerholz   Daniel Guzman   Mathew Hale   Anton Henning   Cisco Jiménez   Koganezawa      Takehito   Lux Lindner   Corinne Marchetti   Jorge Luis Marrero   François Morelli   Claudia & Julia Müller   Alain Paiement   Bruno Peinado   Ed Pien   Jean-François Prost   John Scott   Kiki Smith   Siphay Southidara   Barthélémy Toguo   Torolab (Raúl &      Marcela Cárdenas)   Pablo Vargas-Lugo   Vedovamazzei   (S. Scala & S. Crispino)   Jean-Luc Verna   Fabien Verschaere LIGHT INSTALLATION   Michel Iorio PERFORMANCE   Cees Krijnen