Amanda Baron: art

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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Waning Worlds

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Waning Worlds will be hung in The Embassy bar from the 4th of August to the end of September, 2012.

Amanda Baron is a mixed media artist living and working in Toronto, Ontario. As a Drawing and Painting student at OCAD University, Baron was apart of the 2009- 2010 Florence Off-Campus studies program and has since completed her thesis on alienation in relation to the interpretation of the Self through the exploration of painting and collage techniques; utilizing digital software and employing intuitive and experimental processes of art, in order to investigate the supernatural characteristics of the human mind.

Waning Worlds is a new series of collage prints by Toronto based artist Amanda Baron. As a meditation on the act of art making, this body of work acts as a dialogue between analogue and digital media. Stacked, small-scale collages on acrylic glass that are scanned and then printed in a larger scale, her current work shows a reaction to her past explorations with computer-aided media. The computer here is merely a magnifying glass; illuminating and exaggerating the small imperfections that emerge from layers of collage, painting and etching.

The environments represented in Waning Worlds are inhabited by anonymous figures lingering in illusory and surreal worlds; derived from the artist’s memories, dreams and “the haunting feeling of existing in multiple places simultaneously”. Fixated on the despair of the fleeting moment, the impression of the journey and the emotional migration, Baron’s work reflects on the overlapping inner- and outer- worlds of the human psyche.

Opening Reception:
August 8th, 2012
7-10pm

Featuring music by:

DJ Cunt

Come and feel the sultry loins of the lovely Dj Cunt.

Galactic Nursery

Galactic Nursery is a two-piece collaboration featuring creative talents of Kiran Bhumber and Aziz Ahmed. These spacey jams of ambient melodies, reminiscent of a shaman's journey will take you into the artwork being shown as well as the far corners of your own mind. This live performance will feature improvisation over electronically created beats with instruments such as the clarinet, trombone, gongs and much more. A journey which makes you feel as if you have been caught in the migration of the satellites rotating around earth.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Vladimandir

VLADIMANDIR

This installation was a collaborative project between myself and Vladimir Radoykov, it was painted on the walls across from the 4th floor elevators in OCAD University, March 2012.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Thesis- End of First Term

For my thesis I have been developing a body of work under the idea of the alien. In doing so, I have moved away from its extraterrestrial connontations and adopted it as my own noun to describe the foreign nature of the self. Drawing inspiration directly from existentialists Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger, issues of the human unknown and alienation emerge; alienation originating within the self and the other, as well as the idea of the gaze and shame, our loss of identity and nature, but also our freedom within our nature. I believe we experience the struggle of our condition every day in our growing world. This lead me to my experimentation with digital painting, where I expose and submit to the pressures of technology and modernity. Within the separation of the hand and the work I quite literarally become estranged and subjective to my art, which makes it un-precious, ever changing and free of purpose. I have illustrated its evolving nature by painting over some of my digital works with oil paint, some change little where as others have been demolished. After working with oil I retreated back to the brush and palette and made a series of simple, emotive paintings, to, as a way “retreat back to my home planet” and re-adapt from the foreign digital reality.

My processes are very important to my work because it illustrates the anxious nature of art and of being human. How as intelligent and adaptive creatures we have no nature and lack purpose in the world thus we must constantly be creating our own purpose. In doing so, we can become monstrous, estranged, detached or completely succumbed by the imposition of “the other”. Thus, to reconcile living as an individual one must first adapt to living as an outsider or, Alien and embrace its many forms within the human condition and be free of its restraints.