Wonderland, Corkin Gallery

Event Type: Shows / Exhibitions Date: Sep 9, 2009 to Oct 18, 2009 Location: 55 Mill Street, Building 61, Toronto, ON, Canada Admission: Approximate cost Contact Info: 416-979-1980 Event URL: http://www.corkingallery.com

Wonderland
Corkin Gallery

Wednesday September 9, 2009 to Sunday October 18, 2009

Opening September 9, 5 to 7 p.m.

New work by Barbara Astman

Faculty of Art Professor and alumna Barbara Astman's “Wonderland” employs the imagery of postcards to investigate a synthesis of personal memory and the hyperreal. Drawing from Susan Sontag’s text in On Photography that “to collect photography is to collect the world,” Barbara Astman presents a series of photos that display glimpses of postcards amongst stacks of countless postcards. By reproducing photo-reproductions, Astman studies the language of visual imagery, engulfing the viewer in a narrative of detail and scale.