Jordan Danchilla: Those Days, These Days
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the Gallery / art placement 238 3 Ave S, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 1L9
Jordan Danchilla, "Those Days, These Days," 2022
Jordan Danchilla: Those Days, These Days
Opening: Thursday, September 1, 6-8PM
Art Placement is delighted to present Those Days, These Days, the first solo exhibition by Jordan Danchilla at the gallery. The sprawling installation of paintings, drawings, collages, mixed media works, objects, and assemblages speaks to the multiple and varied ways that Danchilla filters the world through his art.
Danchilla's works defy easy classification, both in terms of medium, as well as their place on the spectrum between representational and non-objective art. His creative process is exploratory and experimental, driven by curiosity and a seemingly irreverent approach to images. He has developed an expansive visual lexicon that incorporates a diverse range of influences and references, everything from canonical masters of western art, to street signs, book covers, and produce labels to name a few. He transforms this source material into two-dimensional wall works that are not strictly paintings, drawings, collages, or prints, but rather they often combine elements and application techniques borrowed from some or all of these disciplines and others. A single work typically combines a variety of materials as well, everything from acrylic, oil, latex, Flashe, and watercolour paint, to wood, tape, cardboard, paper, graphite, felt, fabric, and more. Filtered through Danchilla's aesthetic lens, these diverse works achieve a stylistic unity that is grounded in his meticulous attention to process and materials.
In conjunction with the exhibition, we are also excited to share an insightful essay by Rose Bouthillier that thoughtfully explores some of the material and conceptual aspects of Danchilla's work. Pick up a print copy at the gallery on September 1st.
Rose Bouthillier is a contemporary art curator and writer. She was recently appointed Artistic Director of the Bonavista Biennale, and has also served as Curator (Exhibitions) at Remai Modern, Associate Curator + Publications Manager at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, and Assistant Curator at Oakville Galleries. Her writing on art has been published in CURA., C Magazine, frieze, Foam Magazine, BlackFlash, Arthopper, esse, and Art Criticism & Other Short Stories.