Frankie Martin
16 Feb - 31 Mar 2007
Frankie Martin
In Your Dreamz
February 16 - March, 2007
Opening Reception Friday, Feb. 16, 6-9 PM
Canada is proud to present Frankie Martin's "in your dreamz". In her first solo exhibition at CANADA, Ms. Martin styles her own fears and fantasies into meta-therapy-craft sculpture and performance. Her unabashed focus on the female body in varying levels of sexuality is perversely contradicted by an innocence that can only be found children; Hanna Wilke meets Hanna-Barbera. In this installation, paintings, sculpture, video and performance all combine strong formal sensibilities with Frankie's relentless capacity for both dark and light humor.
Love, fear, worry, the light, the act of movement, are the basic human activities Ms Martin projects through a lens of self help, color and performance. Ms. Martin states "this is life changing art about life changing!". Not only lo-fi/lo-tech, it is low everything. Illustrated by the basest bodily references and a no fear stance with potty humor, the lower she goes, the richer the work becomes without glamorizing the abject. She addresses prosaic subcultures, reforms them through her own freak therapy, in turn detoxifying herself on you.
The bulk of the "painting" is what Martin refers to as "facescapes". Rectangular faces made from stitched and stretched fabric with slight paint accents and fabric hair, like small Sergei Jensen paintings bled free of all gravitas. Two large paintings entitled "golden light shower 4 u" and "the stinker (i pooped a rainbow 4 u)" are self portraits rendered with paint, tie dye, stitchery and beading. These are the iconic masterworks much like Klimt's Danae Mating with Zeus or Devine eating dog poo in Pink Flamingos.
Please join us on Friday Feb 16 at 9pm on opening night. Ms Martin will entertain with her collaborative comedic dance troupe FREAKOUT including dancers Laura Musholt, and Erika Somogyi. The DJ is DJ Jazzy Jexxx.
In Your Dreamz
February 16 - March, 2007
Opening Reception Friday, Feb. 16, 6-9 PM
Canada is proud to present Frankie Martin's "in your dreamz". In her first solo exhibition at CANADA, Ms. Martin styles her own fears and fantasies into meta-therapy-craft sculpture and performance. Her unabashed focus on the female body in varying levels of sexuality is perversely contradicted by an innocence that can only be found children; Hanna Wilke meets Hanna-Barbera. In this installation, paintings, sculpture, video and performance all combine strong formal sensibilities with Frankie's relentless capacity for both dark and light humor.
Love, fear, worry, the light, the act of movement, are the basic human activities Ms Martin projects through a lens of self help, color and performance. Ms. Martin states "this is life changing art about life changing!". Not only lo-fi/lo-tech, it is low everything. Illustrated by the basest bodily references and a no fear stance with potty humor, the lower she goes, the richer the work becomes without glamorizing the abject. She addresses prosaic subcultures, reforms them through her own freak therapy, in turn detoxifying herself on you.
The bulk of the "painting" is what Martin refers to as "facescapes". Rectangular faces made from stitched and stretched fabric with slight paint accents and fabric hair, like small Sergei Jensen paintings bled free of all gravitas. Two large paintings entitled "golden light shower 4 u" and "the stinker (i pooped a rainbow 4 u)" are self portraits rendered with paint, tie dye, stitchery and beading. These are the iconic masterworks much like Klimt's Danae Mating with Zeus or Devine eating dog poo in Pink Flamingos.
Please join us on Friday Feb 16 at 9pm on opening night. Ms Martin will entertain with her collaborative comedic dance troupe FREAKOUT including dancers Laura Musholt, and Erika Somogyi. The DJ is DJ Jazzy Jexxx.