White Noise Syndrome
Electricity is Magic Gallery

Karen Abel
Baccara Collaborative

Opening Reception
Thursday 5th July 2012
8pm - Midnight
Exhibition hours by appointment to July 22

White Noise Syndrome. Fungus, mistaken identities, bats, makeup, chrome. We at EiM are extremely excited to have three of our favourite artists transform our space alternatively into a cave and a playground for identity, space, and place. Karen Abel will be presenting her installation Hibernaculum, and Baccara (Maurene Cooper and Madeline Bailey) will be visiting us from Chicago to present a series of works that deal directly with the space and context of our uniquely home-y gallery.

Karen Abel is a Canadian artist and naturalist based in Toronto. She creates site-sensitive installation and public art works that consider, engage and accommodate 21st century urban ecology and biodiversity. Karen has received awards in support of contemporary ecological art projects including Ontario Arts Council grants for art gardens with the Ontario Science Centre and Walpole Island First Nation.
karenabel.ca

Baccara is the collaboration between Madeleine Bailey and Helen Maurene Cooper. Born out of the extended and often-hilarious confusion between their artistic identities, Baccara is a Chicago-based female duo that produces photographs, works on paper, performance and video embracing artifice and the absurd through childhood games and sexual parody. Bailey and Cooper both hold their MFAs from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and have shown their work both independently and as part of Baccara at national and international venues. Most recently, Baccara participated in the Pecha Kucha event at Los Caminos Gallery in St. Louis, MO, and this summer the redheaded dragon will be on tour for a site-specific exhibition at Electricity is Magic Gallery (EiM) in Toronto, ON.
baccara-collaborative.com