Ozonic Bar, 2013
collaboration with BEN SCHUMACHER
unlit neon letters, glass hardware, seaweed

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Ozonic Note, 2013
collaboration with BEN SCHUMACHER
unlit neon letters, glass hardware, seaweed

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Corsage (Night Light), 2013
neon light, neoprene

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Plinth I, 2009, glass
Plinth II, 2009, ceramic

Egyptian Technologies, 2013
brass, marble

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Column, 2011, brass rods
Untitled, 2011, persian rug, dye
100, 2010, wood, rolling tobacco

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Untitled, 2012
in collaboration with BEN SCHUMACHER

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Ring The Clock, 2012
sterling silver, brass, 3.8 x 2.5 cm

Lamp I, Lamp II, 2012
brass, birch tar oil

 

detail from Untitled (2012), acrylic on canvas, brass
exhibition view from Venus Over the Sun at Desaga, Cologne, 2012

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exhibition from Induction-Procedure at Art Concept, Paris, 2013

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Plate 29, 2012
aluminium 50.5 x 30.4 x 2 cm
courtesy Galerie Rodolphe Janssen

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all images courtesy ELAINE CAMERON-WEIR (unless otherwise stated)

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While New York-based ELAINE CAMERON-WEIR’s practice centers on sculptural concerns, it also deals in a language of rhythm and movement that frames the performative aspects of an artist’s production process. Employing materials ranging from the elegant to the everyday, her work often suggests fragmentary arrangements of furniture and other functional objects, oscillating between abstraction and reality, process and product. 

I have been thinking a lot about truth to materials lately and how that relates to artificiality. For example, when something like a piece of brass or marble is polished, it’s surface is being changed in a synthetic way despite it remaining the same material through to the center. I think this is a kind of truth to materials but in an idealized way and that has to do with surfaces because surface is often thought of as something that is applied or somehow disjointed from what is carrying it. I guess the idea of something natural or inherent about a material being utilized as a means of finish or surface appeals to me because of that conflict between truth to material and faux finish. – ELAINE CAMERON-WEIR via Towards.info, June 2010

Born in 1985 in the Province of Alberta, ELAINE CAMERON-WEIR lives and works in New York. she graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design and achieved a MFA from the Univerity of New York. Personal exhibitions include: galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Bruxelles (2013); Venus Over The Sun, Desaga, Cologne; Not known to be used by any form of life, RAMIKEN, NY (2012). Collectives exhibitions : WEIGHTS & MEASURES, Eleven Rivington, NY; Creature From the Blue Lagoon, Bridgehampton; STRAIGHT UP, Family Business, NY (2012).

And good news: her work is currently part of the group exhibition Induction Procedure on view at Art Concept in Paris till July 27, 2013.

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