Everyday Living & Other Helpful Hints
Ryan McLay, Margaret Pryde, Ryan Legassicke
Opening August 3rd, 2006 (7-9 pm)
loop 1174 Queen St. West, Toronto, Canada, M6J 1J5, 416.516.2581
Wednesday – Saturday 1-5pm, Sunday 1-4pm
Ryan McLay, Margaret Pryde and Ryan Legassicke are pleased to present an installation bringing together three recent projects. Comprised of sculpture, photography, works on paper and sound, these projects focus on table settings as a place of social interaction and as a trace of cultural production. Part document, part artifact and part training device these works focus equally and at times hypothetically on what was, what is, and what should be. Inspiration came from such diverse sources as a factory cafeteria, Emily Post’s 1922 book Etiquette and the process of growth and decay in contemporary culture. While separate and individual, these projects are meant to inform each other and attempt to re-experience everyday living.
The exhibition continues until September 3rd, 2006.
Ryan McLay was born 1977 in Leduc, Alberta and was raised in southern Ontario. He attended Alberta College of Art & Design and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2002). Ryan now lives in Toronto and has since exhibited at the Toronto Outdoor Exhibition, where he won an honorable mention award in sculpture (2004) and recently as part of Riverlands at Gallery 96 in Stratford, Ontairo (2005). www.ryanmclay.com
Ryan Legassicke was born in 1979 in Toronto and grew up in the neighbouring suburb of Pickering. He studied at Sheridan College in Oakville (dip 2000) and later graduated from the Alberta College of Art & Design in Calgary (BFA 2002). Recent exhibitions include Come Up to My Room at the Gladstone Hotel, Toronto (2006); Alley Jaunt, Toronto (2005) and Riverlands at Gallery 96 in Stratford, Ontario (2005). Ryan lives and works in Toronto.
Margaret Pryde was born in 1978 and raised in Stratford, Ontario. She studied furniture design at Sheridan College in Oakville (dip 2000). Recent exhibitions include Riverlands at Gallery 96 in Stratford (2005); The Inaugural Stratford Sculpture Biennial at Gallery Stratford (2004); and at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (2003). After living and working in Australia for a year Margaret moved back to Stratford where she currently works as a cabinet maker. 519-272-9634
* postcard design and text by RL, images by RL, RM and MP, 2006
Chairs Overgrown (2006)
other images and work *click on images to make them larger!
