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| The artists selected for participation by Liss, for the Tree Museum's annual reception and vernissage on September 17, 2006, are Peter von Tiesenhausen, (Alberta), Kelly Mark and Diane Borsato, (both Ontario). The intention of selecting nationally renowned artist Peter von Tiesenhausen is to ground the 2006 exhibition within the traditional lineage and vocabulary of outdoor, site-responsive works. Over the last two decades, in addition to an extensive studio practice and exhibition track record, von Tiesenhausen has produced numerous large and modest scale artworks in a diverse range of settings, from rural and wilderness areas to high-density urban environments, in virtually every region of Canada.
Mark's initial response to Liss's invitation to participate in the project at the Tree Museum was emphatically negative. During that phone conversation the artist stated clearly that she despised the outdoors, rural environments and any thing and any activity associated with nature such as insects, dirt, inclement weather, swimming in lakes, canoeing, camping, cottages, walking in wooded areas, and any situation that lacks a full complement of domestic amenities, utilities, appliances and facilities. Mark's skepticism intrigued Liss as having the potential to playfully contrast von Teisenhausen's sincere holistic vision of art making as an activity harmonious with nature. Based on his previous working experiences with the artist, in which she was required to create site-responsive work in highly charged, unconventional circumstances. Liss has invited Borsato to produce work that will characteristically involve the artist's personal engagement/interaction with the environment. She has no aversion to visiting the site as many times as necessary to research and produce the work. |
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2006 Exhibition |
Curated by David Liss, Guest Curator |
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Opening September 17th, 2006 |
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Diane Borsato
Diane Borsato has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, nationally and internationally, in both traditional gallery settings and less conventional projects and environments. Borsato works in a diverse range of media including photography, video, sculpture, installation, performance, and public "intervention", as well as producing works that document private actions and activities. In previous pieces she has slept with cake, boiled sentimental objects, danced with strangers, squeezed expensive pastries, taken a mannequin to a military prom, and broken a world record. |
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Kelly Mark
Born: Welland, Ontario 1967. Completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (w/ a Minor in Art History) in 1994 at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (N.S.C.A.D.). Since then she has exhibited widely across Canada, and internationally (including the United States, Australia, & Europe). Such venues include: Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), The Power Plant (Toronto), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Saidye Bronfman Art Center (Montreal), ZieherSmith Gallery (NY), Leadbased (NY), Museum of New Art (Detroit), University of Houston (Texas), Real Art Ways (Hartford), Ikon Gallery (UK), Lisson Gallery (UK), the Physics Room (NZ) and the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle) to name a few. |
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Peter von Tiesenhausen
"The land is the canvas, the trees, the lay of the land, everything is part of...the artwork"
Peter von Tiesenhausen was born in New Westminster, British Columbia in 1959. He studied at the Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta (1979-81) and participated in the Emma Lake Artists' Workshops, Emma Lake, Saskatchewan in 1991, 1992, and 1993. His work has received critical acclaim nationally as well as internationally. von Tiesenhausen lives with his family in the countryside, near Demmitt, Alberta, northwest of Edmonton. |
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The Guest Curator for 2006 is David Liss
- David Liss_is Director and Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto where he has organized over 35 exhibitions and projects in 8 countries, including Canada. He also has organized and/or curated over 100 solo and group exhibitions of contemporary Canadian and international art. Liss regularly contributes art reviews to the Montreal Gazette and has had writings published in journals such as Canadian Art, Espace, C.V. Photo, ETC. Montreal, and ARCO Publications. David Liss is a contributing editor to Canadian Art magazine, an Adjunct Professor at York University in Toronto, and a practicing artist. |
The Tree Museum Collective gratefully acknowledges the support of The Canada Council for the Arts & the Ontario Arts Council. |
