You have until Saturday to check out the exhibition titled Le Temps Retouvé by Heidi Barkun at the Visual Voice Art Gallery.

Barkun’s large mixed media pieces straddle the boundary between sculpture and painting. For her series Mémoires the artist assembled a selection of found objects – aged wooden planks, rusted metal pieces, bits of cement – and mounted them into walnut drawers which are hung on the wall like picture frames. Her works pick up where Abstract Expressionists left off; I’m reminded especially of Frank Stella’s early stripe paintings. But the real magic lies in the materiality of her work, each beaten, sun-burned scrap of wood tells a story, each tarnished metal fixture holds a memory. Even more tactile is the series of small works titled Imprints which capture random cast-off items in a thick layer of beeswax. The shape of each object is imprinted physically in the wax, a symbol for our memories imprinted in our minds.

Visual Voice Art Gallery
space 421
Heidi Barkun
Le Temps Retouvé
exhibition period: November 20 – 29, 2008
www.visualvoicegallery.com