Book Launch: Lisa Klapstock: Liminal


Lisa Klapstock: Liminal
Essays by Scott McLeod, Alison Nordström
Introduction by Marilyn Smith, Stuart Reid, and Jann LM Bailey

Published by Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, and Kamloops Art Gallery

The Kamloops Art Gallery, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, and the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery are pleased to announce the launch of Lisa Klapstock’s monograph, Liminal. Published on the occasion of liminal, Klapstock’s nationally touring exhibition, this sumptuous book is an exploration of Klapstock’s artistic oeuvre of the past decade and documents two substantial bodies of work: the laneway project and Ambiguous Landscapes. Series included in the exhibition liminal, such as Living Room and Threshold, are supplemented in the monograph with images from earlier works, such as Crossover, Panorama, and Excavations. Exquisitely designed by Bryan Gee, Liminal contains not only high-quality reproductions of Klapstock’s lens-based work, but also in-depth essays written by Scott McLeod and Alison Nordström.

With a focus on everyday places and their human occupation, Klapstock’s work explores the liminal zone between abstraction and realism, revealing the complex relationship between photographic depiction and visual perception. She is interested in the mechanisms of seeing and the role of the camera in affecting and challenging the way we see and experience our surroundings. Her photo-based artworks are both richly colourful and rigorously intellectual.

Born in Kamloops, B.C., Klapstock studied at Simon Fraser University and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Currently living in Toronto, Klapstock has exhibited her work in North America and Europe at venues including George Eastman House and The Centre for Photography, New York; Gallery TPW, Toronto; Centre Vu, Québec; Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver; The Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver; The Odense Photo Triennial and Gallerie Image, Denmark; and the Musée de la Photographie, Belgium.

Official Launch and Reception
Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art
Suite 124 - 401 Richmond Street West
Toronto, Ontario
September 12, 2006, 5:30-7:30 pm

The artist Lisa Klapstock will be in attendance along with contributing writers Alison Nordström and Scott McLeod, as well as Stuart Reid, Director/Curator of the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, and Jessica Bradley, Director of Jessica Bradley Art + Projects.