ROBIN ARSENEAULT | If I is a monster, so be it
Norberg Hall 333B 36 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 1W2
Robin Arseneault, no date
studio view (courtesy of the Gallery)
Opening Reception: Fri May 9 | 5 - 7 pm, Artist in attendance
For over twenty years, Robin Arseneault’s work has sat at the uncomfortable intersection of failure, abjection and humour. With a wide and changing use of materials like paper, clay, wood, brass, bronze, and found images and objects, she extends her materials past their boundaries, accentuating what is visceral and tactile within. Humour is important in Arseneault’s work and revealed through formal or conceptual relationships to the body, while her use of truncated, manipulated or repeated shapes reveal a dialect of emotional understanding. Although her medium is ever-changing, she continues to respond to the abject and its surrounding absurdity within three-and two-dimensional works.
