Zeke Moores

Contrary To Rule

Contrary to Rule, New works by Zeke Moores and Lucy Howe features two practices that examine contemporary objecthood in very different, yet complimentary ways. In a region that consistently illustrates the pitfalls of industry these artists attend to both the objects and products of it, as well as their relationship to individual labour.

Four by eight sheets of plywood, cardboard boxes, a shipping pallet, and a dumpster; quotidian tools of industry are re-imagined through the use of precious materials in the works of Zeke Moores. Rendered in aluminum or bronze, the aesthetic poverty of utilitarian objects is monumentally transformed. Moores’ sculptures are carefully considered attempts at reifying unseen forms.

In Lucy Howe’s work, the product of industry, specifically objects belonging to the middle class are employed. Howe selects objects that allude to previous eras, effectively things that are already performing an identity to which they do not actually belong. Howe then manipulates these found objects, re-forming their skeletal structures as well as their surfaces, as a means of calling into question the object, its meaning, and use as well as aesthetic value.

Contrary to Rule is a collection of objects in doubt; of their position, provenance, and context.
The opening reception for Contrary to Rule will take place on Thursday, September 9th at 7pm and will coincide with the opening of an exhibition of the Chatham Camera Club. Howe and Moores will be on hand to talk about their work. The Thames Art Gallery is located at 75 William Street N, Chatham, ON and open 7 days a week from 1pm-5pm.

   

Having A great time in Halifax!

 

Summer Residency at NSCAD

With the support of the Canada Council I will be doing a residency at NSCAD this summer for the month of August, where I will be developing a new series of bronze boxes. I will also be installing a small exhibition of my work at the Anna Leonowens Gallery, entitled Immaterial, opening August 2nd.

 

Zeke's laying a smack down! 

On May 6, 2010 the art comes down and the ring goes up!

 

Gearing up for Graeme Patterson’s exhibition Grudge Match, Rodman Hall Art Centre presents THE MAIN EVENT on Thursday, May 6, at 7 pm.  We're putting artists and curators in the ring, including a feature match between Graeme “SLAM” Patterson and Duncan “The Drunken” MacDonald.

 

Lucy Howe 

Jose Seoane 

Zeke Moores

Leesa Bringas 

  

Windsor Fights Back!

A Group Exhibition held at Artcite featuring: Leesa Bringas, Black Fall- Conroy, Lucy Howe, Zeke Moores, Jose Seoane, and A.G. Smith.

Opening reception: Saturday May 1st, 2010, 7 PM.

For May 2010, Windsor Ontario's labour and arts communities will join 
with other cities across Canada to present our first labour-focused cultural 
MayWorks festival in Windsor.

Artists, workers, and students have met over many months to organize 
a collection of exhibitions, projects, events, a rally and a parade, to celebrate 
our creativity as a community, our dedication to the values of workers' solidarity, 
social justice and human rights. 

Our various activities will highlight our support for our city core, 
our old Sandwich Towne community and our history of solidarity,
concern for social justice and our trasition of labour arts.

 

 Dumpster, bronze, 2010 

Check out the updated bronze dumpster images in the works section. It will be on display at Artcite Inc. the month of May for the MayWorks Festival.  I'd like to thank the Ontario Arts Council for their support in the production of this work. 

 Hard Targets was just that. A lot of big names and big expectation's, that were easy to miss. Maybe its because I'm not a big sports fan but somehow the exhibition fell a little flat for me. With such well known artists as Matthew Barney, Jeff Koons and his "Soccerball (bumblebee)" which looked more like a product placement then a piece, but I digress...

However it was good to see such strong Canadian content in Brian Jungen. That guy had like five works in the show. But it was an artist I was less familiar with that stole the show Harun Farocki and his 12-channel video installation "Deep Play", one of the only works that could hold my attention. And how could I forget David Hammons, who's work always makes me smile. As a hole I think the show had a big budget with less  of a big impact. It was the big money tickets that didn't do it for me. The exhibition was interesting but it lacked the impact I believe they were after.  

  

 Harun Farocki 

David Hammons 

As part of the Broken City Lab: Save the City project, and to better understand the city and its rich and failed history, Broken City Lab researchers will invite the community to learn the Francophone history of Windsor through a collective performance and storytelling of traditional French Folk Songs native to the Detroit River region on Saturday, March 20th at 3pm.

Led by Dr Marcel Beneteau, a professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnology at the University of Sudbury, participants will meet at University Avenue and Pelissier Street to take part in a walking oral history tour and performance, which will stop at the streets along Riverside Drive named after Windsor’s French settlers such as Goyeau, Langlois, Marentette, Louis, Parent and Pierre.

The retelling of the brief oral history at each street will be followed by a collective open performance of the French Folk song led by the local Francophone musician. Video and audio documentation of the performances will subsequently be made available on the Broken City Lab / Save the City website.

This is the third event in the SAVE THE CITY project series. The first LISTEN TO THE CITY, was a inspirational evening held at Phog lounge. I had a great time. The second in series SITES OF APOLOGY / SITES OF HOPE, was very successful. The third in my opinion is a must attend...

 

   
 
I was pleasantly surprised by Chatham last saturday night. 

I went to see my good friend Laura Moore's exhibition Kernel Memory. A couple of friends and I decided to show up early to take part in an art crawl. The event started at Chatham's new community members gallery, called Art Space, continued on to a local cafe, then to Laura's exhibition at the Thames Art Gallery. There were a lot of people out. The restaurants and galleries were packed. We had a great time. The highlight of the evening was Laura's show. It looked good, quite elegant. It takes a lot of guts to leave a good amount of space in a sculpture exhibit. People are so used to density now that they feel something is wrong if the room isn't completely packaged. In this case I think the space allowed the works to breath and added a reflective quality. Congrats Laura, nice show.