HALSEY MCKAY GALLERY

Halsey McKay is pleased to present its first exhibition with Toronto-based artist Georgia Dickie. The installation that makes up Awful Residues, is comprised of roughy twenty uniform material stacks that fill the gallery. Arranged in a grid, from low to high and directly on the floor Dickie’s installation performs as one work, though a stack could be  extracted from the group, in the same way that an individual piece could be extracted from a stack. This physical removal, rearranging and recontextualization serves as a metaphor for how the artist’s practice operates. She organizes chaos in an optimistic way by dismantling and rebuilding, then disconnects and moves forward by starting again. The exhibition is not a site specific work, but rather a grouping of works reassembled according to the original configurations that were conceived in Dickie’s studio. Nothing is adhered, rather all of the components are brought together and stacked and arranged in a highly specific way. Following the exhibition, all the components will be returned to the studio and incorporated back into her material inventory, then either recycled into new works or re-assembled in other venues.

Georgia Dickie (b.1989, Toronto, Canada) graduated with a BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2011. Her work addresses the complexities of contemporary object-based practice, and is characterized by a deep interest in found materials and their inherent limitations. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include V1 Gallery, Copenhagen; Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles; Croy Nielsen, Berlin; Cooper Cole, The Power Plant, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; Oakville Galleries, Oakville; Nudashank, Baltimore. She will be the Canada Council for the Arts artist in residence at Acme Studios in London, UK through February 2015. Dickie currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.