Architecture & Design NOW Series: Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins

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Architecture & Design NOW Series presents Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins
Form in Practice, and Form in Public
6 pm, September 23, 2019
Room L1060, Library (LINC) building
Free admission, everyone welcome!

Marman and Borins explain how a studio practice that started with complex projects, an interest in material culture and narrative, and the development of skills and project management, led to a public practice that combined these attributes. Their awareness of urban issues in the 21st century, along with an understanding of social cohesiveness in that role, has led to the telling of stories about art, and the public purpose of art as social experience and place-making identifier. While the subject matter of their studio practice does not always align with their public practice, they have managed to find formal links in both approaches.

Biography 

Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins have practised sculpture, installation and media art in Toronto as a collaborative duo since 2000. Jennifer Marman is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario. Daniel Borins is a graduate of McGill University. Marman and Borins met each other at, and graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design, where they also started their collaboration.

The work of Marman and Borins is often intervention based: situating the visual arts within the context of everyday life, while simultaneously referring to aspects of the history of twentieth century art. Their work also questions ideas pertaining to authenticity. By combining these ideas, their projects identify tensions that arise in the politicization, historicization, and visuality of the artwork, often within the context of mass visual language, mass media, consumerism, and the way in which images circulate in the information age.

Recent exhibitions of their work are their second solo show with Cristin Tierney Gallery in New York, and the final instalment of a solo touring exhibition entitled “The Collaborationists” in the spring of 2016. Produced by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, the exhibition also toured to the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and the Art Gallery of Windsor.

Marman and Borins also practice in the area of public art. They are interested in public sculpture, integrated art and architecture, and in ideas such as transformative public social space. Some of their recent public projects include a recently installed sculpture for the new Humber River Regional Hospital, and multiple sculptures for a 1.2 kilometre linear park in Vancouver. Marman and Borins regularly lecture at galleries and institutions, including recent engagements at Concordia University, the Tulane School of Architecture, and SOMA in Mexico City.

Marman and Borins’ work is in the collections of organizations such as the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the University of Toronto, the City of Toronto, and York University.

 

Room or Area: 
L1060

Architecture & Design NOW wishes to thank the City of Lethbridge Public Art Program for their support and collaboration in making Marman and Borins' visit and presentation possible.


Contact:

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