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Life on Skid Row
Article written by Joanne Kerrigan Excerpt: Sixteen years ago, Ariella Pahlke moved out of her small Canadian city, Halifax, into a nearby rural community. With work and friends still in the city, the filmmaker began a routine of regular commuting on a route that offered not much variety in scenery. But something on the road […]
Read moremud flap project
The mud flap project is a traveling body of functional mixed-media artworks. Constructed with heavy-duty Peterbilt mud flaps and custom waterjet cut stainless steel silhouettes, these functional artworks display a series of silhouettes derived from the machines and performances I create. Six different pairs or sets, as illustrated in the above image have been produced. […]
Read moreJack Shainman Gallery
Give’r March 16 – April 15, 2006 Opening Reception: Thursday, March 16, 2006, 6-8pm Jack Shainman gallery is proud to present Give’r, the first solo exhibition in New York by the Canadian artist Steven Laurie. For this exhibition, Laurie presents a number of hybrid, gas-powered machines that combine masculine labor and leisure. Part suburban backyard […]
Read moreArt of the Motor on Garage Blog
Steven Laurie: Art of the Motor By Gary Grant One of the fun things about publishing The Garage is being invited to all sorts of cool automotive events. Never mind that most of them are hundreds, if not thousands of miles away, it’s just neat to know that all this fun automotive stuff is going […]
Read morePower Tool Drag Racing – Toronto SUN and Star articles
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/05/23/14055761.html http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/education/schoolsandresources/article/813467–playing-with-power-tools-teaches-students-that-trades-can-be-fu
Read moremud flap project on MONDO
Article by By Carolyn Tripp http://mondomagazine.net/2009/artist-profile-steven-laurie/
Read moreIndustrial Revelation
When Walter Benjamin said “[…] the work of art reproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproducibility”, he was referring to the idea that the mechanical reproduction of artworks was changing some aspects of how art was produced and perceived. Notions of authenticity and the “originality” of an art object were drifting. Since Benjamin’s […]
Read moreBurning Rubber – Documentary Film
by Ariella Pahlke – Writer, Director and Producer Burning Rubber is a provocative re-framing of burnouts and rural car culture – a filmaker’s search for meaning in a disregarded and maligned for of self-expression. This film explores issues that relate to art, mark making, rural culture, gender, music, and self-expression. When I leave my house […]
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