SUSAN COOLEN PROJECTS: GRAND SHADOWS

RIVER GRAND CHRONICLES

"The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery's River Grand Chronicles series presents projects with a strong connection to the Grand River and the regions it winds through. The contemporary projects cast the Grand River as either a conceptual or literal figure in visual storytelling and remind viewers to consider how stories, be they fictional or true, have resonance beyond geographic boundaries. Major themes such as romanticized visions, traditional depictions of the landscape, and the First Nations perspective on the complex and often neglected cultural history of the region, have surfaced in these important projects" [exhibit catalogue excerpt]

Susan Coolen's GRAND SHADOWS is River Grand Chronicles No. 7.
Featuring tree forms, shadow work, dvd projections of still images, light works, video, sound.

In her exhibit Grand Shadows, Susan Coolen explores her taxonomic impulse in a new way. These photographic light works, large image projections and small video works all incorporate imagery drawn from her ongoing expeditions to the Grand River environs. Of this new work, Coolen states: “I percolated on the feel of the visual tangle of light and shadow, the lines and forms of trees on the river’s edge environment, reflections, and to the sounds of the often invisible presence of its flowing waters. These expeditions, responses and the resulting studio work are expressed as a visual, spatial and auditory experience that is more suggestive rather than literal. Here I invite the viewer to wander within the gallery space and sense the Grand River as a place of atmosphere and inspiration.”

SUSAN COOLEN PROJECTS: GRAND SHADOWS

RIVER GRAND CHRONICLES

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Image projections - tree shadows - photography

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GRAND SHADOWS / INSTALLATION VIEW / MAY 2009

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