Current Exhibitions
The artLAB Gallery is now closed for installation. We will reopen for the reception of Hive Heads, on Thursday, May 29 from 5-7pm. Please join us then!
SUMMER 2025
Hive Head
Tia Bates and Brittany/Andrew Forrest
Exhibition: May 29 – June 12
Reception: Thursday, May 29 from 5-7pm
artLAB Gallery
Experience is transformed in the mind, growing and warping into hives that grow in cracks and crevices. Thrumming continuously, they press against the internal skin, projecting outward and defining the edges of the external world.
In their first duo exhibition, Tia Bates and Brittany/Andrew Forrest present to you a tomogram of experience and a measurement of projection lux. Hive Head is an examination of the head, how experiences are visualized and inform interpretations and interactions with the external world. The body bumbles from the affect of the unknown and otherwise; it searches for the touch of light in the still expanse. Head hives then become a landscape of fragments where memories are staged. Here, experience lives on and projects outward to feel the fibers of reality.
This artist collaboration is a walkthrough where the viewer is invited to wander among the physical embodiments of growths and the shedding of growths.
Tia Bates is waxing cinema; to reveal and expand upon understandings of experience. She works multi-scale on sculpture and installation works with light, beeswax, and cinematic objects. Tia sculpts with cinematic light to foster the intimate ‘touch’ of filmic light on the human body and the space inhabited in between. In moviehouse darkness, light effects, drawing in, with the desire to capture and stick, to linger in the mind, and stay in the head. Tia is a current MFA candidate (expected August 2025). In 2024, she was awarded the Canada Graduate Scholarship – Masters.
@tiabates_art
www.tiabates.com
Hauntings are parasitic. They live within the silence of our perceptions and the time that follows silence. PhD Candidate Brittany/Andrew Forrest appraises suppressed apparitions and their reverberations between interactions that coerce the human condition, summoning and permeating different levels of consciousness to find awareness within our defensive interactions, interrelations, and adaptations. Forrest questions how defense mechanisms, memories, and amnesia alienate our ability to be present, authentic, and attuned. Silence is an omnipresent black hole echoing the duality of extenuations and penitence, hidden in the fortification of more resounding silence. Forrest collects silence taken by time. She has shown her creatures in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy.
@created_by_brittany
www.brittanyforrest.com
