Zeroing in on some great big ideas
Gary Michael Dault
Bubble and Squeak
At P/M Gallery
The rest of Bubble and Squeak,…. Is intelligent, witty and, for some reason, hugely labour intensive. Ami Clarke’s shiny black acrylic wall-mounted geometric plaques, which employ and modify traditional Islamic decorative patterns, use their carefully cut and finished reflective surfaces to affect the anarchic reintroduction of human presences – as reflections – onto once-proscribed fields of pure design.
Globe and Mail review – 30.12.06, Toronto.
(This is an excerpt from a review of Bubble and Squeak, an exhibition at P/M Gallery in Toronto showing, amongst other works, Flawed I and II, shown here).
Gary Michael Dault
Bubble and Squeak
At P/M Gallery
The rest of Bubble and Squeak,…. Is intelligent, witty and, for some reason, hugely labour intensive. Ami Clarke’s shiny black acrylic wall-mounted geometric plaques, which employ and modify traditional Islamic decorative patterns, use their carefully cut and finished reflective surfaces to affect the anarchic reintroduction of human presences – as reflections – onto once-proscribed fields of pure design.
Globe and Mail review – 30.12.06, Toronto.
(This is an excerpt from a review of Bubble and Squeak, an exhibition at P/M Gallery in Toronto showing, amongst other works, Flawed I and II, shown here).
Flawed II
(the old gods are coming)
highly polished black acrylic sheet, pieces: square, rhomboid, triangle, constructed to pattern - 1.8m x 1.8m x 65mm
Flawed II
(the old gods are coming)
highly polished black acrylic sheet, pieces: square, rhomboid, triangle, constructed to pattern - 1.8m x 1.8m x 65mm
Persian Muquana pattern design to go inside the interior space of a dome.
Flawed I
(the old gods are coming)
highly polished black acrylic sheet, pieces: square, rhomboid, triangle, constructed to pattern - 65cm x 65cm x 45mm
