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| Charlie O’Geen, Limber (Zero
Drouillard Road), 2014 |
Ford City Chosen by the Art Gallery of Windsor as Site for Possible Futures: What is to be Done? The 2014 Windsor Essex Triennial of Contemporary Art
The 2014 Windsor-Essex Triennial of Contemporary Art highlights
and celebrates the distinct voices and compelling work by artists in
southwestern Ontario, Eastern Michigan, Windsor-Essex and Detroit. The
Triennial builds on the AGW's legacy of promoting the region as a
cultural hub of (post-) industrial transformation and urban renewal.
This year and for the first time, the exhibition will take place at the
Art Gallery of Windsor and four offsite venues - The Leamington Arts
Centre, Leamington; The Vollmer Culture and Recreation Complex, LaSalle;
Drouillard Road, Ford City and the Capitol Theatre in Windsor
This exhibition will run through Oct 3 to January
11, 2015.
The sculpture beside 1297 Drouillard Road.
About the Artist:Charlie
O’Geen, Limber (Zero Drouillard Road),
2014
With an academic background in architecture, Charlie
O’Geen is currently a College Professor of Architecture (Design, Materials and
Tectonics) at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan. O’Geen
has worked with several design-build practices and has managed construction
projects in four countries. O’Geen’s work moves off paper and into a full-scale
reality, looking to expose the opportunities of readily available and existing
material energy. O’Geen’s
project in Ford City is titled Limber
(Zero Drouillard Road) and responds to the latent potential of local
resources within the community. Using
automotive scrap from the Ford City neighbourhood, the project recognizes the
local efficiency in handling, manipulating and compressing recyclable
materials. Local skill and resources are used to directly point out the
material energy and vitality of the neighbourhood. For O’Geen, the project can
be viewed as a lever and makes use of the adaptable, malleable nature of the
material at hand to conceptually examine the potential and effective nature of
geometry. Discarded automobiles have been specifically compacted to become
parts of the equation. The site-derived installation is responsive
and reactionary to the site and material at hand.
The AGW
would like to thank Ford City Renewal, YU Express, Excess Metals, Ford City
Redevelopment Committee and Randy Diestelmann for their support.
Exhibition Tours: October 11, 2pm – 3pm and October 25, 12pm – 1pm The AGW is pleased to provide exhibition
tours of O’Geen’s installation leaving from the Gino Marcus Community Centre on
the following dates in October:
Bus Tour: October 18 AND November 1, 2014 The Art Gallery of Windsor (AGW) will offer
us tours to all the venues of the Triennial. Starting at the AGW, the bus tour
will stop at each of the venues, enjoy lunch, artist talks and a curatorial
tour! For tickets contact triennial@agw.ca
Curated by Srimoyee
Mitra, Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Windsor
Curatorial Committee: Melissa Bennett, Curator of
Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Hamilton; Lucy Howe, Artist, Windsor; Stuart
Reid, Director/Curator, Rodman Hall Art Centre and Gregory Tom,
Gallery Programs Director, Eastern Michigan University Art Department.
Possible Futures: What is to be done?is organized by the Art Gallery of Windsor
in collaboration with Tourism Windsor Essex and Pelee Island and Windsor Endowment for the Arts and is generously funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Title Sponsor: Caesars Windsor. The AGW
would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council. Curated by: Srimoyee Mitra.
