DIY Almanac Composition (Jay Cloth) | Lili Huston-Herterich
2015
14 x 11 inches (16 x 13 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
DIY Almanac Compositions is a series of hand-tinted photographs that were initially developed as a sketching exercise during a July 2012 residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point on the Toronto Islands . The series considers the collaborative pedagogy of DIY forums as a contemporary almanac. I collect and obscure imagery from these databases in order to examine the trace, or lack thereof, of the hand in domestic work. Using darkroom processes of reproduction to produce a variable and inconsistent series of unique editions, as well as brightly coloured hand-tinted gestural marks on each work, the series compares the artist’s stroke with domestic mark-making to engage a critical conversation about the distinguishing of art from craft and art from life.
–Lili Huston-Herterich
ABOUT LILI HUSTON-HERTERICH
Born in Chicago
Lili Huston-Herterich is a Toronto-based artist with a background in photography and a practice currently rooted in multidisciplinary installation. The artist routinely employs anti-hierarchical methods of art-making, integrating craft practices, staging participatory events, and using utilitarian objects to engage bodies that share the same space. She received her BFA from York University and was included in the 2011 event “BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)” at Gallery TPW.
Selected solo exhibitions: “We of the Middling Sort,” Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto (2017); “Babble On” (with Nadia Belerique and Laurie Kang), Rockaway Topless, New York (2016); “The Mouth Holds the Tongue” (with Nadia Belerique and Laurie Kang), The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2015); 8-11 Projects, Toronto (2014).
Selected group exhibitions: “Pee-wee,” Shoot the Lobster, Chicago (2016); “Showroom,” Art Museum at the University of Toronto (2016); “Wayward,” Windsor Gallery, Vancouver (2015); “Absolutely Free,” Nuit Blanche, Toronto (2014); “More than Two (Let It Make Itself),” The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2013); “Pin Up,” Mercer Union, Toronto (2011).
2015
14 x 11 inches (16 x 13 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
DIY Almanac Compositions is a series of hand-tinted photographs that were initially developed as a sketching exercise during a July 2012 residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point on the Toronto Islands . The series considers the collaborative pedagogy of DIY forums as a contemporary almanac. I collect and obscure imagery from these databases in order to examine the trace, or lack thereof, of the hand in domestic work. Using darkroom processes of reproduction to produce a variable and inconsistent series of unique editions, as well as brightly coloured hand-tinted gestural marks on each work, the series compares the artist’s stroke with domestic mark-making to engage a critical conversation about the distinguishing of art from craft and art from life.
–Lili Huston-Herterich
ABOUT LILI HUSTON-HERTERICH
Born in Chicago
Lili Huston-Herterich is a Toronto-based artist with a background in photography and a practice currently rooted in multidisciplinary installation. The artist routinely employs anti-hierarchical methods of art-making, integrating craft practices, staging participatory events, and using utilitarian objects to engage bodies that share the same space. She received her BFA from York University and was included in the 2011 event “BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)” at Gallery TPW.
Selected solo exhibitions: “We of the Middling Sort,” Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto (2017); “Babble On” (with Nadia Belerique and Laurie Kang), Rockaway Topless, New York (2016); “The Mouth Holds the Tongue” (with Nadia Belerique and Laurie Kang), The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2015); 8-11 Projects, Toronto (2014).
Selected group exhibitions: “Pee-wee,” Shoot the Lobster, Chicago (2016); “Showroom,” Art Museum at the University of Toronto (2016); “Wayward,” Windsor Gallery, Vancouver (2015); “Absolutely Free,” Nuit Blanche, Toronto (2014); “More than Two (Let It Make Itself),” The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2013); “Pin Up,” Mercer Union, Toronto (2011).
2015
14 x 11 inches (16 x 13 inches framed)
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
DIY Almanac Compositions is a series of hand-tinted photographs that were initially developed as a sketching exercise during a July 2012 residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point on the Toronto Islands . The series considers the collaborative pedagogy of DIY forums as a contemporary almanac. I collect and obscure imagery from these databases in order to examine the trace, or lack thereof, of the hand in domestic work. Using darkroom processes of reproduction to produce a variable and inconsistent series of unique editions, as well as brightly coloured hand-tinted gestural marks on each work, the series compares the artist’s stroke with domestic mark-making to engage a critical conversation about the distinguishing of art from craft and art from life.
–Lili Huston-Herterich
ABOUT LILI HUSTON-HERTERICH
Born in Chicago
Lili Huston-Herterich is a Toronto-based artist with a background in photography and a practice currently rooted in multidisciplinary installation. The artist routinely employs anti-hierarchical methods of art-making, integrating craft practices, staging participatory events, and using utilitarian objects to engage bodies that share the same space. She received her BFA from York University and was included in the 2011 event “BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer)” at Gallery TPW.
Selected solo exhibitions: “We of the Middling Sort,” Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto (2017); “Babble On” (with Nadia Belerique and Laurie Kang), Rockaway Topless, New York (2016); “The Mouth Holds the Tongue” (with Nadia Belerique and Laurie Kang), The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2015); 8-11 Projects, Toronto (2014).
Selected group exhibitions: “Pee-wee,” Shoot the Lobster, Chicago (2016); “Showroom,” Art Museum at the University of Toronto (2016); “Wayward,” Windsor Gallery, Vancouver (2015); “Absolutely Free,” Nuit Blanche, Toronto (2014); “More than Two (Let It Make Itself),” The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2013); “Pin Up,” Mercer Union, Toronto (2011).