Common Ground: Yvonne Lammerich, Jean Van Wijk and Nicholas Wade

by Andrew Payne

Three artists approach their practices through various strategies that link their production to architecture and the built environment. Toronto artist Yvonne Lammerich's work speaks to the complexity inherent in the exploration of architectural space creating a language which defies epistemological constructs. Working in The Hague, Netherlands, Jean van Wijk considers architectural space as a social construct and imagination leads him to create new realities from everyday subjects and objects. Nicholas Wade is interested in the bodily and emotional effects of the spaces which we commonly occupy and surround ourselves. In his sculpture, he responds to ways that materials hold spaces and, reciprocally, how spaces hold materials. Yvonne Lammerich has exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal and Zayed University, Dubai. Jean van Wijk has shown his work across the Netherlands and in Paris and New York; this publication documents his first Canadian exhibition. Nicholas Wade has exhibited across Canada and has taught art at the University of Lethbridge since 1994.

64 pages, Paperback

Published February 17, 2014