eleanor doran's works are a commentary on the contemporary urban scene, on the street, its people, and the places they frequent. on architecture, publicity, text and graffiti.
photography forms the structural base of each piece onto which more traditional elements are layered.
the show runs october 7 - october 24, 2009. the exhibition and gallery closing celebration is on saturday, october 24, from 6:00 pm on.
this is the urbanscape group's final show at the 2959 dundas street west location.
“My particular focus has been the differences between North American
cities (having lived in Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa) and those of
Europe. In this case, I’ve spent periods of time ranging from 12 weeks
to 2 years in Paris, Florence, Budapest and Nice. It’s on these cities
that observations have been based.” With these observations, Eleanor
tries to capture the essence of what she felt in those urban settings
into what we see on her works, “grate-ciels, those towers that are so
out of proportion to human scale and often neglectful of the street
they sit on; domineering, pushy, but at the same time
beautiful…awesome. And at night, glittery and exciting…secretive.” - Eleanor Doran, 2007