(Mint Cavity, 2011, oil on canvas, Kim Neudorf)

(chafe inwards over toast, 2011, oil on canvas, Kim Neudorf)

(soap trail with earpiece, 2011, oil on canvas, Kim Neudorf)

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Proximities
Kim Neudorf

Skew Gallery, Calgary, AB
November 17 - December 16, 2011
Opening Reception: 6pm - 8pm, Nov. 17

In these paintings, gestures are made possible by proximity: crumbling edges, hit-or-miss staining, and the materiality of tone and colour in both dark and bright shapes. These are all co-existences made up of each other’s proximal space. Gestural logic moves from the daily experience of shifting "baselines", "normalities", intensities, and affects, to the attendant thing-word-strings which make up attempts to find language for “the curious ability of inanimate things to animate, to act, to produce effects dramatic and subtle”.

Works cited:

Bennett, Jane. “The Force of Things: Steps Toward an Ecology of Matter”. Political Theory June 2004 vol. 32 no. 3.

www.skewgallery.com/upcoming.htm



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