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Time Machines

David Griffin & Robin Kingsburgh
September 18 — 29, 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 21, 2 — 5 pm​


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Kingsburgh & Griffin riff on the mutable natures of fire and earth as makers of time.

Kingsburgh pairs Neolithic rock engravings of spirals and cups from the Kilmartin Valley in western Scotland, with spirals traced by subatomic particles in bubble chamber images. The common circular forms speak at a visceral level to something deep within the human psyche.

Some rocks in the Kilmartin Valley are etched on, others are arranged as standing stones linked to celestial time kept by the Sun and Moon. The circles and spiral forms somehow connect the celestial timescales to the human cycle of life and death.

​The ancient drawings next to the cracks and crevices etched into the rocks by deep time contrast with the fleeting moment etched by subatomic particles passing through a bubble chamber. Macro plays with micro. The human timescale lies somewhere in between, yet is connected to both.
 
Griffin makes drawings of fire. But how do you draw fire? It is an object with no surface. Does it have volume? It is more than just vapor but less than solid. Fire flows at absolute zero, and glows in the transformations of the sun. It is chemistry and poetry at once. Fire is a thing that exists on the edge of chaos and order. Everything it touches is utterly changed, its energies violently translated into ash by the licking flame. Flickering between reality and language, fire is an existential threshold, the end of what we know.
Bios:
Robin Kingsburgh is a trained astronomer (Ph.D. in Astronomy, 1992, University College London). Her artistic education comes from studies at University of Toronto, as well as in the U.K. and France, and has paralleled her scientific development. She currently teaches various Natural Science courses at York University, Toronto. Her scientific background influences her artwork in an indirect, subconscious way, where she employs geometric motifs as a frequent theme. She is a member of Propeller Gallery, where she shows her artwork on a regular basis. 

Dr. David Griffin is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting and drawing, graphic music notations, and performance. He has exhibited his artwork both nationally and internationally, is an instructor at OCAD University in Toronto, and holds a PhD from the Glasgow School of Art.The artist's creative practice and theoretical writing focus on notational drawing as a hybrid document and connotative system, through which we may construct innovative performance practices.

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    • Recent Exhibitions >
      • OFF THE WALL Fundraiser
      • Gordon & Jones
      • Peter Friedrichsen
      • Muzumdar & Djelweh
      • Washi Juried Show
      • Altered Images
      • Michael Zaharuk, Piranha
      • David Griffin & Robin Kingsburgh, Time Machines
      • Michael J. B. Black: Evanescent
      • Sylvia Whitton & Diane Pugen, Land Echoes
      • Lauri Maitland, Veiled Reflections
      • Silvana Waniuk, Duality
      • Past Exhibitions >
        • CRE8TIVE
        • summer small works show
        • UNMADE
        • HORIZONS AND BEYOND
        • TRACES & THREADS
        • White Water Rapids Gwen Tooth
        • Colour of the Night, Jacques Descoteaux
        • Coloured Bodies: Material Moves | Dori Vanderheyden
        • Parallel Perceptions | Sharron Corrigan Forrest & Michelle Letarte
        • Humans Remain: Photographic Evidence of Life on Earth, Part 2 | Jack Wayne
        • Spirit of the Wild | Wayne Kodje
        • Diagnosis
        • Frances Patella | Roots and Ruins | March 6 - 24
        • Andres Vosu | Tattooed Wood & Other Graphic Expressions Under My Skin | March 6 - 24, 2019
        • Blue/ Bleu - Feb. 13
        • Audrey Smith - Of People and Places
        • Figure it Out
        • December 12 - 22 | Northern Tendencies: Juried Group Exhibition
        • December 4 - 6 | 2018 Propeller Fundraiser & Silent Auction
        • November 21 - December 2 | Michael Black [South Gallery]
        • November 21 - December 2 | Gordon Stamper [North Gallery]
        • November 7 - 18 | Unearthed Tales
        • October 17 - November 4 | Janet Read: Travelling Mercies [South Gallery]
        • October 17 - November 4 | Nancy Newton | Sound Scape [South Gallery]
        • October 3 - 14 | Emergence: Four Ways
        • September 19 - 30 | Maggie Doswell | Ocean [North Gallery]
        • September 19 - 30 | Gwen Tooth: Black and Gold [South Gallery]
        • September 5 - 16 | Michael Zaharuk: Punch Lines [North Gallery]
        • September 5 - 16 | David Griffin: I'm A Murmur [South Gallery]
        • August 15 - September 2 | SURGE II: Things to be said
        • July 25 - August 12 | SUMMERTIME | Group Exhibition
        • July 4 - 22 | Out Of This World | Juried Group Exhibition
        • More... >
          • June 20 - July 1 | Jack Wayne | Humans Remain [North Gallery]
          • June 20 - July 1 | Jacques Descoteaux: What Lies Beneath [South Gallery]
          • May 30 - June 17 | CITED: Masterpiece and Memento II | Curated by David Kaye
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