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kelly mark + thierry delva

sat 17 july - sat 18 september
reception friday 17 september @ 7pm

kelly mark was born in Welland, Ontario 1967 and currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada. She 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.). Kelly works in a variety of media including: drawing, sculpture, photography, installation, sound, multiples, video & public interventions.

I have always had an intense preoccupation with the differing shades of pathos and humour found in the repetitive mundane tasks, routines and rituals of everyday life. Hidden within these spans of time can be found startling moments of poetic individuation, and an imprint of the individual within the commonplace rituals of society. Individuation, especially within this uniformity, although subtle and frequently paradoxical, is something I find myself returning to again and again. Through my ‘will to order’ and my frequently inane sense of humour my objective is the investigation, documentation and validation of these singular ‘marked’ and ‘unmarked’ moments of our lives...

-- from the artists statement

thierry delva, born in Deinze, Belgium in 1955 and immigrated to Canada in 1977, is a master stone mason whose early work involved stone carving and cutting. His more recent work comprises plaster, iron and bronze casts of everyday containers. Delva graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 1993 with a Masters in Fine Arts and has taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in the Sculpture department since 1994.