Patrick Mikhail Gallery presents the inaugural Essential Projects series:
Still Water by Andrew Wright
February 17 to March 5, 2011
Artist Reception
Friday, February 18, 2011
2 P.M. to 6 P.M.
Patrick Mikhail Gallery
2401 Bank St.
Ottawa, ON
Please join me for the Ottawa premiere of my large scale photo-sculptural work, Still Water.
(As described in the Globe & Mail):
"Water moves as continuously as air. It is part of Andrew Wright's inventive perversity that he is given to building his work on the basis of water made still. Like a 19th-century photographer whose photographs of water look (because of long exposure times) like photos of milk, Wright's waterworks have all the solidity of crystal.
For this exhibition, Still Water, Wright has pushed watery stasis into the realms of the architectural, producing a series of five dark, narrow steles that curve up from the floor and ascend almost to the ceiling. They look identical at first glance, but you soon come to see there are photo passages of hurtling, splashing water at the foot of each tower-like structure, each of them different. It's like looking down over a dam at night (Wright took the photos at falls on the Grand River near Cambridge) - a dam momentarily frozen solid by darkness and the inhalation of time."