ARTBARRAGE PRESENTS

Jordan MacLachlan's

CONDO LIVING

"comfortably housed on a condo 

floor plan, yet possess[ing] a 

barbarism that one would not expect 

to find beyond the walls 

of our neighbours"

as you enter the gallery you quickly begin to feel 

that you are intruding on someone's privacy

and then your friend, who has accompanied you to the show points at one piece, resplendent on its own grey plinth, 
and says -

"That's how I felt last night, but there was no dog"

Jordan MacLachlan says that she makes 

"figurative narratives that are meaningful to me, 

and reflect the life i have lived, 

often appearing quite frank, 

while at the same time 

possessing an 'aliveness' 

as though there were 

someone home inside 

each piece"

yes, indeed, someone is home 

and making merry 

with a variety of poses indirectly 

influenced by the artist's exposure to a 

Metropolitan Museum of Art book 

Playing With Fire, European Terracotta Models, 1740-1840 (2003)

delightfully voyeuristic,
an array of 
"true-to-life narratives 
that reflect the often raw and contradictory 
nuances of human nature...afford[ing] viewers 
poignant glimpses of a brazen underside, 
revealing the teeth of life 
through emotional grit" 

cast in the perfect medium for a playful, 
frequently 'natural' foray into the many scenes 
that play themselves out 
in the spaces we call our homes

"Condo Living is a series of figurative sculptural vignettes...derived from [the artist's] Unexpected Subway Living installation, originally shown at MOCCA in Ineffable Plasticity: the experience of being human exhibition 
[2011], curated by Camilla Singh"

Condo Living is a must see because 
it dares to be bold and simple

utilizing the artist's love of a natural substance 
that she has always been attracted to, 

creating 'natural' scenes that we may be frequently attracted to despite any desire to hide the rituals & routines we may find ourselves immersed within -

 "I have always been partial to working with clay 
because it has been able to fit into 
just about any of my life circumstances, 
big or small"

much like the "big or small" scenes crafted by a hand 

adept at representing intimacy in the most ordinary places, 

MacLachlan's talent for displaying life as she has seen it 

rests beautifully within a field of grey and white at -

ArtBarrage 

until May 11th   

     

                                                                                                                              photos by Walter Willems

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