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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 […]
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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. […]
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By Carolyn Tripp “A friend of mine and I were sitting on the sidewalk one day,” artist Steven Laurie explains, “and wondering out loud what it would take for people who didn’t typically talk about art to be compelled to come into a gallery or be interested in a contemporary art show.” The possibilities often […]
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Halifax By Sue Carter Flinn – June 28th, 2007. The school bus was filled with excited chatter and laughter as it left Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery for Exhibition Park, about twenty minutes outside of downtown Halifax. Only this wasn’t your typical field trip: in fact, no one on the bus knew exactly why we […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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