Gallery 101 is pleased to present:

    The Known Effects of Lightning on the Body

    And

    A Hand That Points Aligns the Air

    By Lee Henderson

    June 8 to July 6, 2018 

    Grand Opening: June 8, 5-8pm

    New gallery hours: Thursday and Friday noon to 6 and Saturdays noon to five.
    Or book a tour during regular gallery office hours: Tues – Fri, 10 – 5

    Gallery 101 welcomes you to the grand opening of our brand new space at 280 Catherine Street, across from the main bus station. On Friday June 8 from 5-8pm please drop in to celebrate the solo exhibition by Lee Henderson and tour our new, bigger and better space: 2 floors, 3 gallery zones, sunny workshop and office areas.

    Henderson’s is a making practice marked by the persistence of collective histories and the brevity of individual lives... which is to say it's funny, in the same way King Lear is funny.

    Henderson is interested in understanding problems, with an awareness that the work of the artist lies in revealing false problems rather than solving real ones. But whether investigating problems of definition or perception, or of measurement or identification, existential crises or mundane anxieties, he found that they all collapse back to the central problem of the terminus, that presumed point of ambiguous inevitability we spend our conscious lives avoiding, or from which we supposedly sprang. This doesn't have to mean the beginning/end of a particular human life—it can as easily be the disappearance of a culture, the retrofitting of an edifice, the emergence of a language, or the transition between weather patterns. And like an electron or a fable, when examined with care, the terminus problem-point reveals itself to be permeable, mutable, and indiscernible. Throughout this process the artist stumbles, gropes; ad then latches on to a piece of material, or an historical factoid, or the cultural baggage of an object, or a quirk of language, and become fascinated-obsessed until it reveals the mortal banality of its associations. Those associations—networks of human intellectual-emotional investment, more commonly known as "meaning"—then find expression in reconfigurations of light, text, space, sound, and matter. Making an artwork is every bit as absurd, direct, and fruitful as rearranging furniture just to see the pattern on the floor.

    BIO
    Lee Henderson (1979~) is a contemporary artist whose practice includes video, photography, installation, sculpture, performance, and text. Henderson has studied art in Canada and Germany, holding a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design (2003) and an MFA from the University of Regina (2005). He shows regularly across Canada, and occasionally in Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, Naples, and Berlin; notable recent venues include The Phillips Collection at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Magenta Festival Boston, and The Zero Film Festival (USA); The Dunlop Art Gallery, The Mendel Art Gallery, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, Nuit Blanche Edmonton, and YYZ Artists' Outlet (Canada); and kunstraum tapir, Berlin (Germany).

    Henderson’s work can be found in private and public collections including the Mendel Art Gallery/Remai Modern, the University of Regina President’s Collection, and The Center for Fine Art Photography, USA. He currently teaches art and media in Toronto at Ryerson and OCAD Universities.

    Gallery 101 gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the City of Ottawa, the Ontario Arts Council (an agency of the government of Ontario), and the Canada Council for the Arts. Gallery 101 thanks the Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival, our members, volunteers, partners, and all our relations.