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Shannon Armishaw: Opaque Surfaces/Shattered Landscapes @ Gallery 115

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Written by April Yorke   
Monday, 25 January 2010 11:37
Gallery 115 is pleased to present Opaque Surfaces/Shattered Landscapes, a solo-exhibition by University of Ottawa's BFA student Shannon Armishaw. Taking her inspiration from the  contemporary urban environnment, this collection of works explores the relationship between sub-cultural identities and meaning within an increasingly superficial and commoditized society. With Armishaw's depiction of bleak and somber faces we are left to ask how individual resistance and sub-cultural identification and creation can permeate and affect the empty surfaces of the capitalist spectacle, if at all. Do aesthetics have the ability to subvert and transgress or does the individual become appropriated, mass produced and disposable within capitalism? Armishaw dives beneath the surfaces of aesthetic temporality to reveal the yearning individual that is lost within that empty masquerade.
Shannon Armishaw is from Ottawa, Ontario. She is currently in her fourth year at the University of Ottawa studying Fine Arts with a Major in Painting. Her work has been featured in various group exhibitions across the Ottawa area, such as Young Guns: A Collective; Fight the Stereotype; Red Mercury; Sculpture in Transformation and, I Was, I Am, I will Be. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Brook Street Hotel, Personal Pilates Corporation, Rkive9 Art Direction+Design+Motion, and A la Envy Custom Couture. This is Armishaw's first solo exhibition.
Please join us on Monday January 25th from 4 - 9pm for the opening night of the exhibition.
Gallery 115 at the University of Ottawa
Visual Arts Department
100 Laurier Avenue
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April Yorke is a (Cult)ure Magazine contributor since Wednesday, 07 January 2009.

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