Exhibition
06 November - 19 December 2009

Opening Reception
Friday 06 November   7PM

Panel Discussion: Influenced by  the Lens?
Saturday 07 November  3PM

[Image: Janet Werner, Catgirl 2 and Redhead, 2009]

PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is pleased to present the group exhibition, Added Value, featuring paintings in a variety of media by Stephanie Aitken [Vancouver], Stephen Andrews [Toronto], Chris Dorosz [San Francisco], and Janet Werner [Montreal], guest-curated by former PLATFORM Director, Lisa Wood.

Through the act of painting, these contemporary Canadian artists meditate and comment on the photograph, studying its formal qualities, inherent expectations and pervasive presence in our culture.  For these artists the photograph is a visual artifact in need of analysis.  The artists in Added Value change the conceptual outcome of the source material by translating the subject from photo to paint.  All four artists’ work is embedded with tension between their desire to posses the source material and its subject through painting, and their subversive emptying of the content of that subject, be it a sublime mountain, an image of war, a party snapshot, or an alluring supermodel.  The resulting works expose the gap between the subject and the viewer, mediated by the photographer, the photograph, the painter and the painting.   -  L. Wood, curatorial statement _ Added Value, 2009

Please join us for the opening reception Friday, the 6th of November beginning at 7PM. Refreshments will be served.

PLATFORM wishes to acknowledge the support of its membership, board of directors, volunteers, and staff. Added Value is made possible with funding received from Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, The Winnipeg Foundation, and Manitoba Lotteries. Special mention is owed to our colleagues at Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art for their generous in-kind contributions.

For more information about this exhibition or other PLATFORM programming, please contact the Centre directly:
PLATFORM | 121-100 Arthur Street [Artspace Building] | Winnipeg, Manitoba | R3B 1H3 | 204.942.8183 | www.platformgallery.org