XHesperidesX. Sunlight® Shine | Catherine Telford-Keogh
2019
21 x 14 inches
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Working in digital collage with stock photography and elements of corporate design, Catherine Telford Keogh’s multifarious practice digests and metabolizes these otherwise bland capitalist aesthetics into something potent, strange, and playful. Telford Keogh is also known for large-scale sculptural works that juxtapose industrial materials with seemingly “consumable” goods such as hot dogs, dill pickles, Advil gel capsules, and sugary cereal. In XHesperidesX. Sunlight® Shine, an otherwise picturesque sunset is riddled with an absurd array of tiny corporate logos, YouTube screengrabs, and other distorted images, perhaps like a post-capitalist atmospheric event or a Google Image Search absorbed into rainfall. A reinterpretation of an earlier large-scale digital collage by the artist, XHesperidesX. Sunlight® Shine features a custom acrylic intervention into the frame of the work, referencing the cocktail of an industrial cleaning agent and a Monster™ Energy Drink that partially submerged Telford Keogh’s earlier piece.
ABOUT CATHERINE TELFORD KEOGH
Toronto-based artist Catherine Telford Keogh (born 1986) received her MFA with a focus in sculpture (2011) and she also holds a Concentrated Master of Arts in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (2013), both from Yale University. Catherine has also been a guest speaker at various universities including Western University, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo and Yale University. In 2018, she was the Artist-in-Residence at the University of Ottawa.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Dental Dam” UWAG, Waterloo (2018); “SoftFocus®” Bunker 2, Public Storage Building, Toronto (2018); “Source Supplements” Evans Contemporary, Peterborough (2018); “FLAT FOOD” Roberta Pelan, Toronto (2017)
Selected group exhibitions: “In Commerce Court” Main Street Gallery, Toronto (2018); “Radiant Real” Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Art Gallery of Peterborough, McIntosh Gallery, London (2018); “Title II,” Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal (2018); “Kakaesque” Franz Kaka, Toronto (2017); “PUDDLING: As her fate, she accepted the world of ice, shining, shimmering, dead (The Island)” Prince Edward County, (2017); “Slipping between the gap of touch, two hands vibrating” Coffin Factory, Toronto (2017); “ROT: Compost and Surgery” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (2016); “Legal Tender” The Alice, Seattle (2016); “Video Snack” Vox Populi, Philadelphia (2015); “Bronx Calling” Bronx Museum, New York (2015)
2019
21 x 14 inches
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Working in digital collage with stock photography and elements of corporate design, Catherine Telford Keogh’s multifarious practice digests and metabolizes these otherwise bland capitalist aesthetics into something potent, strange, and playful. Telford Keogh is also known for large-scale sculptural works that juxtapose industrial materials with seemingly “consumable” goods such as hot dogs, dill pickles, Advil gel capsules, and sugary cereal. In XHesperidesX. Sunlight® Shine, an otherwise picturesque sunset is riddled with an absurd array of tiny corporate logos, YouTube screengrabs, and other distorted images, perhaps like a post-capitalist atmospheric event or a Google Image Search absorbed into rainfall. A reinterpretation of an earlier large-scale digital collage by the artist, XHesperidesX. Sunlight® Shine features a custom acrylic intervention into the frame of the work, referencing the cocktail of an industrial cleaning agent and a Monster™ Energy Drink that partially submerged Telford Keogh’s earlier piece.
ABOUT CATHERINE TELFORD KEOGH
Toronto-based artist Catherine Telford Keogh (born 1986) received her MFA with a focus in sculpture (2011) and she also holds a Concentrated Master of Arts in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (2013), both from Yale University. Catherine has also been a guest speaker at various universities including Western University, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo and Yale University. In 2018, she was the Artist-in-Residence at the University of Ottawa.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Dental Dam” UWAG, Waterloo (2018); “SoftFocus®” Bunker 2, Public Storage Building, Toronto (2018); “Source Supplements” Evans Contemporary, Peterborough (2018); “FLAT FOOD” Roberta Pelan, Toronto (2017)
Selected group exhibitions: “In Commerce Court” Main Street Gallery, Toronto (2018); “Radiant Real” Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Art Gallery of Peterborough, McIntosh Gallery, London (2018); “Title II,” Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal (2018); “Kakaesque” Franz Kaka, Toronto (2017); “PUDDLING: As her fate, she accepted the world of ice, shining, shimmering, dead (The Island)” Prince Edward County, (2017); “Slipping between the gap of touch, two hands vibrating” Coffin Factory, Toronto (2017); “ROT: Compost and Surgery” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (2016); “Legal Tender” The Alice, Seattle (2016); “Video Snack” Vox Populi, Philadelphia (2015); “Bronx Calling” Bronx Museum, New York (2015)
2019
21 x 14 inches
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Working in digital collage with stock photography and elements of corporate design, Catherine Telford Keogh’s multifarious practice digests and metabolizes these otherwise bland capitalist aesthetics into something potent, strange, and playful. Telford Keogh is also known for large-scale sculptural works that juxtapose industrial materials with seemingly “consumable” goods such as hot dogs, dill pickles, Advil gel capsules, and sugary cereal. In XHesperidesX. Sunlight® Shine, an otherwise picturesque sunset is riddled with an absurd array of tiny corporate logos, YouTube screengrabs, and other distorted images, perhaps like a post-capitalist atmospheric event or a Google Image Search absorbed into rainfall. A reinterpretation of an earlier large-scale digital collage by the artist, XHesperidesX. Sunlight® Shine features a custom acrylic intervention into the frame of the work, referencing the cocktail of an industrial cleaning agent and a Monster™ Energy Drink that partially submerged Telford Keogh’s earlier piece.
ABOUT CATHERINE TELFORD KEOGH
Toronto-based artist Catherine Telford Keogh (born 1986) received her MFA with a focus in sculpture (2011) and she also holds a Concentrated Master of Arts in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (2013), both from Yale University. Catherine has also been a guest speaker at various universities including Western University, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo and Yale University. In 2018, she was the Artist-in-Residence at the University of Ottawa.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Dental Dam” UWAG, Waterloo (2018); “SoftFocus®” Bunker 2, Public Storage Building, Toronto (2018); “Source Supplements” Evans Contemporary, Peterborough (2018); “FLAT FOOD” Roberta Pelan, Toronto (2017)
Selected group exhibitions: “In Commerce Court” Main Street Gallery, Toronto (2018); “Radiant Real” Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Art Gallery of Peterborough, McIntosh Gallery, London (2018); “Title II,” Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal (2018); “Kakaesque” Franz Kaka, Toronto (2017); “PUDDLING: As her fate, she accepted the world of ice, shining, shimmering, dead (The Island)” Prince Edward County, (2017); “Slipping between the gap of touch, two hands vibrating” Coffin Factory, Toronto (2017); “ROT: Compost and Surgery” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (2016); “Legal Tender” The Alice, Seattle (2016); “Video Snack” Vox Populi, Philadelphia (2015); “Bronx Calling” Bronx Museum, New York (2015)