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yet another…

this is another…

photo by Joyce Westrop

over the past several days, i have been playing in the studio…

and this is an outcome…

photo by Joyce Westrop

A version of my installation entitled “Listening” will be shown as part of the NAISA’s (New Adventures in Sound Art) “Sound Travels” exhibition in Toronto at the Wychwood Barns. The exhibition times are below.

August 6, 5-8 pm opening of Sound Travels indoor Installations, PWYC (recommended $5)
runs from August 6-30, 2009
Thurs & Fri 5-8pm; Sat 9am-noon (except Aug 8); Sun 1-4pm (except Aug 9)

Loop Studio Centre for Lively Arts, 601 Christie St #170, Toronto, Ontario Canada

The shows continue at Enriched Bread Artists (EBA) in Ottawa with New Painting, February 14th and 15th, 2009. The gallery is open from 11 am to 5 pm on the second floor at 951 Gladstone Avenue in Ottawa, Canada. I have an untitled work in progress in the exhibition constructed of birch plywood and wiggle wood. A picture of the work is show below.

New Painting at EBA, Feb 14th and 15th

untitled (for New Painting) - Kenneth Emig (2009)

Pictures from the Propeller Dance performance “View Finder” at Arts Court Theatre, November 13, and 14, 2008 can be found on Flickr.

The picture below is the stage set designed and constructed for the Propeller Dance production entitled View Finder at Arts Court Theatre in Ottawa. The two mirrored pieces to the left of the image are designed to be picked up and used by the dancers during the production. To give a sense of scale, the mirrored pieces on the stage are 22 feet across.

Continuum was originally created as triptych for my 2007 exhibition entitled “Continuum” at Axeneo7, an artist run centre in Gatineau, Canada. There are two of the three on display at the 2008 EBA Open Studio. These large-scale works measuring 352 cm x 200 cm x 38 cm are constructed of high-density plywood, mirror, fluorescent lights, and paint surrounded by a cherry veneer frame.

Find below five different images of the two Continuum works at EBA.

The Triangle Series was started 13 years ago in my second open studio experience at Enriched Bread Artists. I cut an equilateral triangle 18″ on each side in the wall and it has remained there ever since. The first of the series, “Triangle I”, was a kaleidoscope 1.5 m long with 6 mirrors and a piece of cut blue stained glass. The visual image gave the sense that the piece was 2-D when in fact, it was 3-D.

Triangle XIII is a small room constructed from a combination of drywall and office partitions and painted red. A 500 W Fresnel theater lighting fixture installed in the floor pointing up. The actual thickness of the triangular wall opening is that of an edged piece of 1/2″ drywall. This edge in Triangle XIII is painted blue.

One of the works that I am showing at the Enriched Bread Open Studio (EBA) is entitled “Spatial Blue with a Thin Red Line”. This is a combination of two previous works.

The “Thin Red Line” is a strip of red paint on the wall lit by a focused elliptical theatre light. This was previously shown at last years EBA Open Studio.

“Spatial Blue” was originally built for the EBA “Verticality” show at Gallery 101 in July and August 2008. The hexagonal shape was based on my site specific commissioned work entitled “Diffract” for the Canada Dance Festival at the National Arts Center (NAC) in June. The NAC’s architecture is based on the hexagon. “Spatial Blue” was also shown at the Cube Gallery as part of the Candela exhibition.

Pictures of the work are shown below. The Thin Red Line is washed out due to the dynamic range of the light involved in the work. The detailed images are views of the interior of the lower part of “Spatial Blue” though a similar view is seen in the upper part.