THIS SEPTEMBER
Dave and Jenn's second solo exhibition, "The Magic Circle", will open this September at Skew Gallery. For more information please visit:

http://www.skewgallery.com/upc

Also, Dave and Jenn will be collaborating with painter Ron Moppett for the Southern Alberta Art Gallery's Grand Reopening this September 17th.
Information for this upcoming show will be posted at:

www.saag.ca

Dave and Jenn will also have work in the show "softcore HARD EDGE", which:
"features artwork by eighteen artists from Calgary and Los Angeles co-curated by art critic for the Los Angeles Times, David Pagel, and The Art Gallery of Calgary’s Senior Art Curator, Marianne Elder. Debuting in Calgary at The Art Gallery of Calgary on September 10, 2010 and continuing to Los Angeles on August 29, 2011, softcore HARD EDGE will bring together 60 artworks that question similarities of contemporary art practice created in these two very different cities."

More information can be found by visiting:

www.artgallerycalgary.org/exhi


"How many scattered values we should succeed in concentrating, if we lived the images of our daydreams in all sincerity."

(Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space)

"Dave and Jenn" are our adventuring not so alter-Alter Egos, they are the shadows of us walking through a world where the landscape is the main protagonist, a place created by our shared and over-saturated minds.

The world of Dave and Jenn is real and it is not. Science, Art, Make-believe, History and Hearsay: it all makes its way into our inner world. And in turn these things will eventually escape into the outside again.
Our work is about inner landscapes, predominately the one the two of us share, as well as the mythology that arises from this.

Our practice is one of co-authourship and so we have chosen to lose our individual identities in favour of a team moniker. Because of its historical and regional importance we like landscape art, and we are focusing on the mutation of the subject. We also use the genre to create false histories, stories that recall and subvert the older colonial narratives of exploration. We look to the history of painting to find our position on the map, using the what we find as a means to move on and in our own direction. We often make paintings that are double-sided, paintings that split apart and infect the space around them with their own reality. We wonder what the world would look like if our imaginations rebelled and the things in our minds became very real and autonomous.





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