We are very pleased to introduce photo-based artist Lisa Klapstock in her first solo exhibition at Diane Farris Gallery entitled Threshold.
Threshold is a series of 28 colour photographs that depict boundaries - walls, gates, doors, and fences - and the fragmented views glimpsed through gaps and holes in their surfaces. Shot with a macroscopic lens and then enlarged approximately 8 times, the images reveal scenes that exist solely in photographic form and are invisible to the naked eye. The artist states:
Gary Michael Dault of the Globe and Mail comments on the series: "...[her] work - refers to her decision to make palpable the boundary-state between public and private space, to work the membrane between what is close to her and legitimately accessible (a fence, say) and what is available only through a sort of studied voyeurism, a photographic prurience about the private spaces of others (a photographic squint through a knothole, or a hurried gaze into the narrow space between, say, closed gates)."
Lisa's work can also be viewed in an up-coming group exhibition Almost Perfect Sphere at the Presentation House Gallery in Vancouver (Sept 13-Nov 2, 2003) as well as in a solo exhibition at the Center for Photography in Woodstock, New York (August 16-October 17, 2003).
Lisa Klapstock was born and raised in Kamloops, British Columbia, and has been based in Toronto since 1995. She received an honours degree in Communications from Simon Fraser University and a diploma in Sight and Sound Film Production from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. In addition to commercial and non-profit galleries in Canada, the USA, and Europe, Lisa has exhibited in public institutions such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, TENT and Museum Van Nagsael and in Holland, Museum of Photography in Florida, and The Center for Photography in New York and is collected by The Art Gallery of Windsor and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
