Geographica, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
Work ID: 64669
Description: A pair of white kid gloves is printed with fragmentary early maps of Canada and displayed in a wall mounted vitrine.
Collection: Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : screen print on kid gloves, showcase: linen, wood, glass
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Oeuvre d'art par Jeannie Thib
Venus Redux, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64655
Description: The work consists of a sequence of five fragmented bodies, each printed on a sheet of kozo paper. The first is a self silhouette and the other four are based on tiny pre-Columbian and ancient European sculptures of women/Venuses. Internal images of lungs, bone, veins, and in one case a group of man-made replacement body parts, have been incorporated into the Venus figures and their scale has been increased to roughly life size. The redux of the title is a Latin word meaning restored or returned and in effect the work brings these images back to be examined in relation to the self and contemporary culture.
Des mesures : 5 panels/panneaux, each/chacun : 183cm x 91cm (72
Collection: MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1991
Matériaux : linocut on kozo paper, ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Venus Redux
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64654
Description: The work consists of a sequence of five fragmented bodies, each printed on a sheet of kozo paper. The first is a self silhouette and the other four are based on tiny pre-Columbian and ancient European sculptures of women/Venuses. Internal images of lungs, bone, veins, and in one case a group of man-made replacement body parts, have been incorporated into the Venus figures and their scale has been increased to roughly life size. The redux of the title is a Latin word meaning restored or returned and in effect the work brings these images back to be examined in relation to the self and contemporary culture.
Des mesures : 5 panels/panneaux, each/chacun : 183cm x 91cm
Collection: MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1991
Matériaux : linocut on kozo paper, ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Rorschach, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64657
Description: Rorschach' consists of ten images on partially folded pieces of paper which sit on wall mounted shelves. The title refers to the Rorschach inkblot test developed to probe an individual's subconscious. In this installation the "ink-blots" are images of the body based on sculptural artifacts from various civilizations.
Des mesures : 213cm x 183cm x 61cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1992
Matériaux : drawing, paper, India ink, red paint
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Rorschach
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64656
Description: Rorschach' consists of ten images on partially folded pieces of paper which sit on wall mounted shelves. The title refers to the Rorschach inkblot test developed to probe an individual's subconscious. In this installation the "ink-blots" are images of the body based on sculptural artifacts from various civilizations.
Des mesures : 213cm x 183cm x 61cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1992
Matériaux : drawing, paper, India ink, red paint
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Untitled, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64664
Description: Nine sticks are carved with texts and mounted on the wall. The texts, culled from a book describing animal behavior, are a series of two word expressions like "bodily postures", "trail marking", and "ritual play". They were selected for their ambiguity in terms of subject and because they refer in a broad way to adaptations and abilities that contribute to survival. These survival strategies contrast with the material nature of the sticks which as a sort of natural detritus are fragmentary and non permanent.
Des mesures : installed dimensions/dimensions de l'installation : 122cm x 91cm
Collection: Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1993
Matériaux : 9 carved sticks
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Terra Incognita (l)
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64658
Description: The reference point for 'Terra Incognita', which represents a large female figure, was a medical illustration diagramming the systems of the body. The altered image incorporates representations of internal organs from various medical treatises, including medieval disease women and ancient Chinese manuscripts dating from before dissections were done and hence largely works of the imagination. This, coupled with the fragmentary nature of the information provided, undermines the authority of the empirical, scientific model. The work proposes a geography of the body as an unmapped territory, a region known only in the imagination.
Des mesures : 2.5m x 2m
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1993
Matériaux : two versions: I. linocut on kozo paper, ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Pairs
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64665
Description: Pairs', a collaborative work made with artist Micah Lexier, consists of four components, each comprised of two laser cut steel images mounted in front of a fluorescent light fixture. The paired images, one from each artist in each case, refer to the body and body coverings.
Des mesures : 4 parts/parties, each/chacune : 46cm x 18cm x 10cm (18
Collection: Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Quebec; Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1993
Matériaux : laser cut steel, fluorescent lights
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Pairs, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64666
Description: Pairs', a collaborative work made with artist Micah Lexier, consists of four components, each comprised of two laser cut steel images mounted in front of a fluorescent light fixture. The paired images, one from each artist in each case, refer to the body and body coverings.
Des mesures : 4 parts, each 46cm x 18cm x 10cm (18
Collection: Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Quebec; Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1993
Matériaux : laser cut steel, fluorescent lights
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Tabula 3
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64661
Description: In 'Tabula' the artist's palm provides a site which is divided and labelled according to various systems - mapping, patterning, coding - to explore human relationships with wilderness/wildness. Five large hands are presented in sequence. They incorporate found texts and patterns from various sources: garden design, maps (including historical mapping done by Champlain of the Great Lakes area of Canada and a contemporary map of Algonquin Park), wilderness survival tips and body decoration for purposes of camouflage and identification.
Des mesures : 5 sheets/feuilles, each/chacune 122cm x 91cm
Collection: Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario; W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1993
Matériaux : linocut on kozo paper, ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Terra Incognita (ll)
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64659
Description: The reference point for 'Terra Incognita', which represents a large female figure, was a medical illustration diagramming the systems of the body. The altered image incorporates representations of internal organs from various medical treatises, including medieval disease women and ancient Chinese manuscripts dating from before dissections were done and hence largely works of the imagination. This, coupled with the fragmentary nature of the information provided, undermines the authority of the empirical, scientific model. The work proposes a geography of the body as an unmapped territory, a region known only in the imagination.
Des mesures : 2.3m x 119cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1993
Matériaux : two versions: II. chalk drawing on slate shingles
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Untitled
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64663
Description: Nine sticks are carved with texts and mounted on the wall. The texts, culled from a book describing animal behavior, are a series of two word expressions like "bodily postures", "trail marking", and "ritual play". They were selected for their ambiguity in terms of subject and because they refer in a broad way to adaptations and abilities that contribute to survival. These survival strategies contrast with the material nature of the sticks which as a sort of natural detritus are fragmentary and non permanent.
Des mesures : installed dimensions/dimensions installée : 122cm x 91cm
Collection: Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1993
Matériaux : 9 carved sticks
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Tabula 5
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64662
Description: In 'Tabula' the artist's palm provides a site which is divided and labelled according to various systems - mapping, patterning, coding - to explore human relationships with wilderness/wildness. Five large hands are presented in sequence. They incorporate found texts and patterns from various sources: garden design, maps (including historical mapping done by Champlain of the Great Lakes area of Canada and a contemporary map of Algonquin Park), wilderness survival tips and body decoration for purposes of camouflage and identification.
Des mesures : 5 sheets/feuilles, each/chacune 122cm x 91cm
Collection: Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario; W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1993
Matériaux : linocut on kozo paper, ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Tabula
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64660
Description: In 'Tabula' the artist's palm provides a site which is divided and labelled according to various systems - mapping, patterning, coding - to explore human relationships with wilderness/wildness. Five large hands are presented in sequence. They incorporate found texts and patterns from various sources: garden design, maps (including historical mapping done by Champlain of the Great Lakes area of Canada and a contemporary map of Algonquin Park), wilderness survival tips and body decoration for purposes of camouflage and identification.
Des mesures : 5 sheets/5 feuilles, each/chacune 122cm x 91cm
Collection: Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario; W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1993
Matériaux : linocut on kozo paper, ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Glyph
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64667
Description: Glyph' consists of a sequence of five linocut images: leg, arm, hand, torso, and foot printed on paper panels. The body fragments, inscribed with patterns from various sources including Italian and English historical textiles, a camouflage pattern from nature, an Australian aboriginal labyrinth design, and an Assyrian carved stone tablet, resulting in a series of hybrid representations.
Des mesures : 5 sheets/feuilles, eachchacune 183cm x 91cm (6' x 3'), installed dimensions/dimensions installées: 183cm x 4.9m (6' x 16')
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1994
Matériaux : linocut on kozo paper, ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Glyph, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64668
Description: Glyph' consists of a sequence of five linocut images: leg, arm, hand, torso, and foot printed on paper panels. The body fragments, inscribed with patterns from various sources including Italian and English historical textiles, a camouflage pattern from nature, an Australian aboriginal labyrinth design, and an Assyrian carved stone tablet, resulting in a series of hybrid representations.
Des mesures : 5 sheets/feuilles, each/chacune 183cm x 91cm (6' x 3'), installed dimensions/dimensions installées: 183cm x 4.9m (6' x 16')
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : linocut on kozo paper, ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Vanitas
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64670
Description: Vanitas', a work focusing on the absent body, consists of a sequence of linocut images printed on ten burlap panels. These fragmentary images, excerpted from art historical sources, represent garments isolated from the bodies which were present in the original works. Sources include marble statues from the 4th century, a bronze statuette by Ghiberti, and a drawing by Andre del Castagno from 1445.
Des mesures : 10 panels/panneaux, each/chacun : 231cm x 101cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : linocut on burlap, ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Archive
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64673
Description: In 'Archive' redrawn designs culled from diverse cultural and historical sources are integrated with drawings of body fragments to form new composites. These patterned images are screen printed in black ink on fourteen sheets of drafting film. Installed sequentially they read as series of inscribed glyphs that suggest illuminated letters and point to histories of body decoration. The work also archives the body itself in the form of a collection of fragments.
Des mesures : 14 sheets/feuilles, each/chacune 122 x 91 cm (48
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : screen print on frosted mylar, ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Vanitas, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64671
Description: Vanitas', a work focusing on the absent body, consists of a sequence of linocut images printed on ten burlap panels. These fragmentary images, excerpted from art historical sources, represent garments isolated from the bodies which were present in the original works. Sources include marble statues from the 4th century, a bronze statuette by Ghiberti, and a drawing by Andre del Castagno from 1445.
Des mesures : 10 panels/panneaux, each/chacun : 231cm x 101cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : linocut on burlap, ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Archive 14
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64675
Description: In 'Archive' redrawn designs culled from diverse cultural and historical sources are integrated with drawings of body fragments to form new composites. These patterned images are screen printed in black ink on fourteen sheets of drafting film. Installed sequentially they read as series of inscribed glyphs that suggest illuminated letters and point to histories of body decoration. The work also archives the body itself in the form of a collection of fragments.
Des mesures : 14 sheets/feuilles, each/chacune 122 x 91 cm (48
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : screen print on frosted mylar, ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Archive 11
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64674
Description: In 'Archive' redrawn designs culled from diverse cultural and historical sources are integrated with drawings of body fragments to form new composites. These patterned images are screen printed in black ink on fourteen sheets of drafting film. Installed sequentially they read as series of inscribed glyphs that suggest illuminated letters and point to histories of body decoration. The work also archives the body itself in the form of a collection of fragments.
Des mesures : 14 sheets/feuilles, each/chacune 122 x 91 cm (48
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : screen print on frosted mylar, ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Blueprint
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64672
Description: Blueprint' consists of seven hanging mulberry paper garments - coverings for the upper body seen from the back. They combine the designs of garments from various museum collections with printed textile designs from other historical sources. The work was originally installed in a glass fronted retail showcase in a commercial building.
Des mesures : 7 parts of varying sizes/7 parties de différentes tailles, installation: 122cm x 12m x 30.5cm (48
Collection: Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : screen printed and stitched mulberry paper, ink, thread
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Geographica, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64669
Description: A pair of white kid gloves is printed with fragmentary early maps of Canada and displayed in a wall mounted vitrine.
Des mesures :
Collection: Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1995
Matériaux : screen print on kid gloves, showcase: linen, wood, glass
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Augur, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64677
Description: Augur' comprises sixteen wood panels, each screen printed with an image of intestines based on medical illustrations culled from a wide variety of sources including medieval European manuscripts, historical Chinese treatises on the human body, Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks, and contemporary western texts. The intestines were altered to incorporate patterns, words, and diagrams that represent various modes of analyzing nature - records of the desire for order in a chaotic world. Augur was inspired in part by the ancient practice of reading the entrails and includes ironic references to some of the resulting prophesies.
Des mesures : 16 panels/panneaux, each/chacun: 61cm x 61cm x 7cm (24
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997
Matériaux : screen print on wooden panels, paint, ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Flutter, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64680
Description: Flutter' is an installation of twenty slate components which sit on individual wall mounted shelves. The slates are screen printed in white ink with images of womens' handkerchiefs. These objects, while functioning as body surrogates, also retain a resonance of their use as social signifiers associated with coded behaviors. The work refers to the preservation of artifacts in collections, both public and private, and to fossil records.
Des mesures : 1. sérigraphie, sur ardoise, encre, bois, peinture; 2. sérigraphie sur papier Arches noir, encre
Collection: 1. Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1997
Matériaux : 1. screen print on blackboard slate, ink, wood, paint; 2. screen print on black Arches paper, ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Model/Mimic, detail left
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64682
Description: Model/Mimic' consists of two wall mounted showcases each containing three pairs of women's kid gloves. The gloves, screen printed with fragments of the same design as the cloth they are placed on, are partially camouflaged against that background. Found texts dealing with instances of the blurring of boundaries between nature and culture and with examples of mimicry in nature are inserted into the flora and fauna of the redrawn 18th century British textile design. The idea of the insect mimic is linked to the gloves which also served to conceal, disguise and protect. The presentation of the work alludes to museum displays of artifacts, specifically to natural history museum specimen collections of butterflies and other insects.
Des mesures : 2 showcases, each/2 vitrines, chacune : 21 x 117 x 69cm (8½
Collection: Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1997
Matériaux : linen, 6 pairs of screen printed kid gloves, ink, wood, glass
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Model/Mimic, detail right
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64683
Description: Model/Mimic' consists of two wall mounted showcases each containing three pairs of women's kid gloves. The gloves, screen printed with fragments of the same design as the cloth they are placed on, are partially camouflaged against that background. Found texts dealing with instances of the blurring of boundaries between nature and culture and with examples of mimicry in nature are inserted into the flora and fauna of the redrawn 18th century British textile design. The idea of the insect mimic is linked to the gloves which also served to conceal, disguise and protect. The presentation of the work alludes to museum displays of artifacts, specifically to natural history museum specimen collections of butterflies and other insects.
Des mesures : 2 showcases, each/2 vitrines, chacune : 21 x 117 x 69cm (8½
Collection: Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1997
Matériaux : linen, 6 pairs of screen printed kid gloves, ink, wood, glass
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Augur
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64676
Description: Augur' comprises sixteen wood panels, each screen printed with an image of intestines based on medical illustrations culled from a wide variety of sources including medieval European manuscripts, historical Chinese treatises on the human body, Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks, and contemporary western texts. The intestines were altered to incorporate patterns, words, and diagrams that represent various modes of analyzing nature - records of the desire for order in a chaotic world. Augur was inspired in part by the ancient practice of reading the entrails and includes ironic references to some of the resulting prophesies.
Des mesures : 16 panels/panneaux, each/chacun: 61cm x 61cm x 7cm (24
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997
Matériaux : screen print on wooden panels, paint, ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Flutter
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64679
Description: Flutter' is an installation of twenty slate components which sit on individual wall mounted shelves. The slates are screen printed in white ink with images of womens' handkerchiefs. These objects, while functioning as body surrogates, also retain a resonance of their use as social signifiers associated with coded behaviors. The work refers to the preservation of artifacts in collections, both public and private, and to fossil records
Des mesures : 1. sérigraphie, sur ardoise, encre, bois, peinture; 2. sérigraphie sur papier Arches noir, encre
Collection: 1. Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1997
Matériaux : 1. screen print on blackboard slate, ink, wood, paint; 2. screen print on black Arches paper, ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Augur, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64678
Description: Augur' comprises sixteen wood panels, each screen printed with an image of intestines based on medical illustrations culled from a wide variety of sources including medieval European manuscripts, historical Chinese treatises on the human body, Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks, and contemporary western texts. The intestines were altered to incorporate patterns, words, and diagrams that represent various modes of analyzing nature - records of the desire for order in a chaotic world. Augur was inspired in part by the ancient practice of reading the entrails and includes ironic references to some of the resulting prophesies.
Des mesures : 16 panels, each: 61cm x 61cm x 7cm (24" x 24" x 2¾"); installed dimensions: 1.37m x 6m x 7cm (54"x 19'6" x 2¾")
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1997
Matériaux : screen print on wooden panels, paint, ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Model/Mimic
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64681
Description: Model/Mimic' consists of two wall mounted showcases each containing three pairs of women's kid gloves. The gloves, screen printed with fragments of the same design as the cloth they are placed on, are partially camouflaged against that background. Found texts dealing with instances of the blurring of boundaries between nature and culture and with examples of mimicry in nature are inserted into the flora and fauna of the redrawn 18th century British textile design. The idea of the insect mimic is linked to the gloves which also served to conceal, disguise and protect. The presentation of the work alludes to museum displays of artifacts, specifically to natural history museum specimen collections of butterflies and other insects.
Des mesures : 2 showcases, each/2 vitrines, chacune : 21 x 117 x 69cm
Collection: Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1997
Matériaux : linen, 6 pairs of screen printed kid gloves, ink, wood, glass
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Manual 10
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64687
Description: Manual' consists of a group of eleven pairs of printed and stitched paper gloves pinned specimen-like into box frames. The work references artifact, body, and book, with the printed palms and oiled paper suggesting parchment, membrane, and page. The gloves incorporate found images and texts from medical and botanical sources. On first inspection these associated fragments of information appear to be related in the traditional manner of illustration and text, but upon further examination reveal their disparate sources. Manual examines a history of collecting and ordering information that extends from early encyclopedic treatises on nature to contemporary instructional manuals.
Des mesures : 11 framed pairs, each frame: 63cm x 50cm (25 x 20); each frame contains one element, each element: 20 x 14cm x 2.5cm (8
Collection: The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : screen print on kozo paper, ink, thread, oil
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Manual
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64686
Description: Manual' consists of a group of eleven pairs of printed and stitched paper gloves pinned specimen-like into box frames. The work references artifact, body, and book, with the printed palms and oiled paper suggesting parchment, membrane, and page. The gloves incorporate found images and texts from medical and botanical sources. On first inspection these associated fragments of information appear to be related in the traditional manner of illustration and text, but upon further examination reveal their disparate sources. Manual examines a history of collecting and ordering information that extends from early encyclopedic treatises on nature to contemporary instructional manuals.
Des mesures : each frame/chaque cadre: 63cm x 50cm (25 x 20); element in each frame/élément dans chaque cadre : 20 x 14cm x 2.5cm (8" x 5½"x 1"); entire work/installation complète : 63.5cm x 15m x 6cm (25" x 50' x 2½")
Collection: The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : screen print on kozo paper, ink, thread, oil
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Library of Natural History, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64685
Description: Library of Natural History' consists of a group of eleven volumes slip covered in printed linen and presented on individual wall mounted shelves. The linen was first screen printed with a redrawn version of an 18th century British textile design, then cut, fitted and stitched around the books, rendering the contents of the library inaccessible. Each book is covered with the romanticized images of birds and flowers that tamed the wildness of nature for consumers of the original textile. The viewer "reads" this cultured surface in lieu of the texts themselves.
Des mesures : books and shelves/livres et étagères : 15cm x 11cm x 11cm (6" x 4½" x 4½") to/à 30.5cm x 26.5cm x 11cm (12" x 10½" x 4½"); installation variable: 122 x 305 x 11cm (4' x 10' x 4.5")
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : screen print on linen, ink, found books, thread, wooden shelves
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Time Line, detail left
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64690
Description: In 'Time Line' two horizontal paper gloves are installed to create a fifteen foot line. The left glove is printed with a series of short texts describing a selective and very fragmentary history of cultural production. These are presented in order, but out of the context of related events and without dates and locations of the activities referred to. A printed pattern representing a twining vine covers the entire right hand glove. 'Time Line' examines the ordering, archiving and preservation of information.
Des mesures : two framed parts/deux parties encadrées, each/chacune : 213cm x 15cm x 7cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : screen print on stitched kozo paper, ink, oil, thread
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Time Line, detail right
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64691
Description: In 'Time Line' two horizontal paper gloves are installed to create a fifteen foot line. The left glove is printed with a series of short texts describing a selective and very fragmentary history of cultural production. These are presented in order, but out of the context of related events and without dates and locations of the activities referred to. A printed pattern representing a twining vine covers the entire right hand glove. 'Time Line' examines the ordering, archiving and preservation of information.
Des mesures : two framed parts/deux parties encadrées, each/chacune : 213cm x 15cm x 7cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : screen print on stitched kozo paper, ink, oil, thread
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Time Line
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64689
Description: In 'Time Line' two horizontal paper gloves are installed to create a fifteen foot line. The left glove is printed with a series of short texts describing a selective and very fragmentary history of cultural production. These are presented in order, but out of the context of related events and without dates and locations of the activities referred to. A printed pattern representing a twining vine covers the entire right hand glove. 'Time Line' examines the ordering, archiving and preservation of information.
Des mesures : two framed parts/deux parties encadrées, each/chacune : 213cm x 15cm x 7cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : screen print on stitched kozo paper, ink, oil, thread
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Library of Natural History
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64684
Description: Library of Natural History' consists of a group of eleven volumes slip covered in printed linen and presented on individual wall mounted shelves. The linen was first screen printed with a redrawn version of an 18th century British textile design, then cut, fitted and stitched around the books, rendering the contents of the library inaccessible. Each book is covered with the romanticized images of birds and flowers that tamed the wildness of nature for consumers of the original textile. The viewer "reads" this cultured surface in lieu of the texts themselves.
Des mesures : books and shelves/livres et étagères : 15cm x 11cm x 11cm (6" x 4½" x 4½") to/à 30.5cm x 26.5cm x 11cm (12" x 10½" x 4½"); installation variable: 122 x 305 x 11cm (4' x 10' x 4.5")
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : screen print on linen, ink, found books, thread, wooden shelves
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Manual 3, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64688
Description: Manual' consists of a group of eleven pairs of printed and stitched paper gloves pinned specimen-like into box frames. The work references artifact, body, and book, with the printed palms and oiled paper suggesting parchment, membrane, and page. The gloves incorporate found images and texts from medical and botanical sources. On first inspection these associated fragments of information appear to be related in the traditional manner of illustration and text, but upon further examination reveal their disparate sources. Manual examines a history of collecting and ordering information that extends from early encyclopedic treatises on nature to contemporary instructional manuals.
Des mesures : 11 framed pairs, each frame/11 paires encadrées, chaque cadre : 63cm x 50cm (25 x 20); each frame contains one element, each element/chaque élément dans un cadre : 20 x 14cm x 2.5cm (8
Collection: The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Date de réalisation : 1998
Matériaux : screen print on kozo paper, ink, thread, oil
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Doublet 4
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64699
Description: A series of seven silhouetted pairs of historical gloves drawn in India ink are overprinted with the stylized patterns of British 19th century printed textiles. The symmetrical doubled ink images and mirrored patterns create self contained, Rorschach-like images.
Des mesures : series of seven images/série de sept images, each framed/chacune encadrée : 63 x 83cm (25
Collection: Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Date de réalisation : 2000
Matériaux : drawing and screen print on paper, India ink, acrylic screen printing ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Trappings 5, detail left
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64697
Description: Trappings' consists of a series of eleven pairs of silhouetted historical purse shapes drawn in India ink. In each pair the left image is overprinted with a found wood engraving depicting idealized nature scenes - some with hunters and fishermen. The right-hand images are screen printed with stylized flora and fauna. The title, which refers to possessions and accoutrements, also suggests notions of catching and containment.
Des mesures : eleven paired images/onze paires d'images, each framed pair/chaque paire encadrée : 83 x 135cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2000
Matériaux : drawing and screen print on rag paper, India ink, acrylic screen printing ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Fret, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64695
Description: Fret', a cut black neoprene work, incorporates a 19th century Italian design originally used for a rich velvet fabric. The ground around the pattern is cut away leaving a hanging fretwork of thin neoprene. The attractiveness of the design is undermined by the industrial qualities of the material - its smell, texture and weight which causes pulling and distortion. Contemporary and historical referents co-exist uneasily in the resulting hybrid. Silhouetted, symmetrical motifs are rendered Rorschach-like and the work casts strong shadows onto adjacent floor, walls and viewers. Repetition of the design over such a large area suggests uncontrolled growth and engages with issues of propagation and replication.
Des mesures : 274 cm x 6m x 8cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2000
Matériaux : neoprene rubber
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
The Cranes: the National Tribute to Japanese Canadian Life (public artwork)
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64692
Description: My artwork for the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre takes the form of a wave composed of a series of twenty four abutted panels of 3/4" thick honed slate. The surface of the slate is inscribed with patterns based on Japanese textiles, mostly those created for kimonos. The crane, which is central to this tribute, figures throughout the patterned surface. The other source of inspiration is Hokusai's famous 1831 image "The Great Wave" which inspires the wave form. The artwork, which is designed to honour, remember, and represent the continuing strength of the Japanese-Canadian community, incorporates a wedge shaped shelf with room for 2,000 printed dedications.
Des mesures : 3.4m x 17m x 30cm (56 x 11 x 1')
Collection: permanent public artwork commissioned by The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada
Date de réalisation : 2000
Matériaux : sandblasted slate, maple
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
The Cranes: the National Tribute to Japanese Canadian Life (public artwork), detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64693
Description: My artwork for the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre takes the form of a wave composed of a series of twenty four abutted panels of 3/4" thick honed slate. The surface of the slate is inscribed with patterns based on Japanese textiles, mostly those created for kimonos. The crane, which is central to this tribute, figures throughout the patterned surface. The other source of inspiration is Hokusai's famous 1831 image "The Great Wave" which inspires the wave form. The artwork, which is designed to honour, remember, and represent the continuing strength of the Japanese-Canadian community, incorporates a wedge shaped shelf with room for 2,000 printed dedications.
Des mesures : 3.4m x 17m x 30cm (56 x 11 x 1')
Collection: permanent public artwork commissioned by The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada
Date de réalisation : 2000
Matériaux : sandblasted slate, maple
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Trappings 5, detail right
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64698
Description: Trappings' consists of a series of eleven pairs of silhouetted historical purse shapes drawn in India ink. In each pair the left image is overprinted with a found wood engraving depicting idealized nature scenes - some with hunters and fishermen. The right-hand images are screen printed with stylized flora and fauna. The title, which refers to possessions and accoutrements, also suggests notions of catching and containment.
Des mesures : eleven paired images/onze paires d'images, each framed pair/chaque paire encadrée : 83 x 135cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2000
Matériaux : drawing and screen print on rag paper, India ink, acrylic screen printing ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Trappings 5
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64696
Description: Trappings' consists of a series of eleven pairs of silhouetted historical purse shapes drawn in India ink. In each pair the left image is overprinted with a found wood engraving depicting idealized nature scenes - some with hunters and fishermen. The right-hand images are screen printed with stylized flora and fauna. The title, which refers to possessions and accoutrements, also suggests notions of catching and containment.
Des mesures : eleven paired images/onze paires d'images, each framed pair/chaque paire encadrée : 83 x 135cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2000
Matériaux : drawing and screen print on rag paper, India ink, acrylic screen printing ink
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Fret
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64694
Description: Fret', a cut black neoprene work, incorporates a 19th century Italian design originally used for a rich velvet fabric. The ground around the pattern is cut away leaving a hanging fretwork of thin neoprene. The attractiveness of the design is undermined by the industrial qualities of the material - its smell, texture and weight which causes pulling and distortion. Contemporary and historical referents co-exist uneasily in the resulting hybrid. Silhouetted, symmetrical motifs are rendered Rorschach-like and the work casts strong shadows onto adjacent floor, walls and viewers. Repetition of the design over such a large area suggests uncontrolled growth and engages with issues of propagation and replication.
Des mesures : 274 cm x 6m x 8cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2000
Matériaux : neoprene rubber
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Dissections, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64703
Description: Dissections' consists of five paired screen prints on paper. The source for the series was five 19th century allover designs used for various decorative objects including textiles, carpets, mosaics, metalwork and manuscripts. These kinds of patterns drew on European arts from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque eras as well as from Middle and Far Eastern traditions. Each pair of plates uses one of the designs as its source. The "images", which suggest insects and butterflies, are fragments of these historical patterns, created by excising them from their surroundings. The edited motifs are arranged symmetrically to suggest encyclopedia pages or natural history displays.
Des mesures : five paired images (ten sheets) each sheet/cinq paires d'images (10 feuilles) chaque feuille : 64cm x 44cm (25
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2001
Matériaux : screen print on gampi paper (acrylic screen printing ink, gampi paper)
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Raked: A Garden for Harbourfront, Toronto (public garden)
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64700
Description: A collaborative artist garden (with Bruce Holland) beside the Du Maurier Theatre at Harbourfront, Toronto posits a garden trellis as stage curtain. Cultural representations of flora in the form of the undulating and twining vegetal motifs of the trellis are each year encroached upon and eventually covered by the actual plants that infiltrate and obscure it.
Des mesures :
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2001
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Divide, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64705
Description: The work consists of a hundred and twenty five cut felt elements arranged on a two foot grid and pinned to the wall. These elements are fragments of a Victorian allover design. The design, representing stylized forms from nature combined with decorative flourishes, is literally deconstructed in the work. From a distance the resulting glyphs suggest text and language. Close inspection reveals the pins and a reference to natural history specimen displays.
Des mesures : 125 elements, installed dimensions variable, elements are arranged on a 2' square grid to cover a wall; individual elements: 10cm x 10cm to 20cm x 40cm (4
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2001
Matériaux : black felt, pins
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Divide
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64704
Description: The work consists of a hundred and twenty five cut felt elements arranged on a two foot grid and pinned to the wall. These elements are fragments of a Victorian allover design. The design, representing stylized forms from nature combined with decorative flourishes, is literally deconstructed in the work. From a distance the resulting glyphs suggest text and language. Close inspection reveals the pins and a reference to natural history specimen displays.
Des mesures : 125 elements arranged on a 2' square grid to cover a wall
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2001
Matériaux : black felt, pins
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Dissections
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64702
Description: Dissections' consists of five paired screen prints on paper. The source for the series was five 19th century allover designs used for various decorative objects including textiles, carpets, mosaics, metalwork and manuscripts. These kinds of patterns drew on European arts from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque eras as well as from Middle and Far Eastern traditions. Each pair of plates uses one of the designs as its source. The "images", which suggest insects and butterflies, are fragments of these historical patterns, created by excising them from their surroundings. The edited motifs are arranged symmetrically to suggest encyclopedia pages or natural history displays.
Des mesures : five paired images (ten sheets) each sheet/cinq paires d'images (10 feuilles) chaque feuille : 64cm x 44cm (25
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2001
Matériaux : screen print on gampi paper (acrylic screen printing ink, gampi paper)
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Raked: A Garden for Harbourfront, Toronto (public garden), detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64701
Description: A collaborative artist garden (with Bruce Holland) beside the Du Maurier Theatre at Harbourfront, Toronto posits a garden trellis as stage curtain. Cultural representations of flora in the form of the undulating and twining vegetal motifs of the trellis are each year encroached upon and eventually covered by the actual plants that infiltrate and obscure it.
Des mesures :
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2001
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Spill, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64708
Description: Spill' is a site specific installation created for De Overslag gallery in Eindhoven, The Netherlands using a design from a historical Dutch damask textile. The work, cut from black landscaping cloth, originates in a coiled form in the upper gallery, moves up and over a railing, and cascades to the ground floor where it spills out into a large pool in the lower space. The work expands from one centimetre in width at its source to six metres wide. The size of the pattern also increases - quite gradually in the upper part and then rapidly as it reaches the far wall of the lower gallery. This volume and scale contrast with the ideal of order and beauty proposed by the original textile design and suggest a reading of ornament as threatening and disturbing. 'Spill' conjures images of toxic spills and other unnatural disasters.
Des mesures : dimensions: 17m (60') long x from/de 1cm to/à 6m
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2002
Matériaux : landscaping cloth
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Spill, upper gallery
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64706
Description: Spill' is a site specific installation created for De Overslag gallery in Eindhoven, The Netherlands using a design from a historical Dutch damask textile. The work, cut from black landscaping cloth, originates in a coiled form in the upper gallery, moves up and over a railing, and cascades to the ground floor where it spills out into a large pool in the lower space. The work expands from one centimetre in width at its source to six metres wide. The size of the pattern also increases - quite gradually in the upper part and then rapidly as it reaches the far wall of the lower gallery. This volume and scale contrast with the ideal of order and beauty proposed by the original textile design and suggest a reading of ornament as threatening and disturbing. 'Spill' conjures images of toxic spills and other unnatural disasters.
Des mesures : dimensions: 17m (60') long x from/de 1cm to/à 6m (3/8
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2002
Matériaux : landscaping cloth
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Spill, lower gallery
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64707
Description: Spill' is a site specific installation created for De Overslag gallery in Eindhoven, The Netherlands using a design from a historical Dutch damask textile. The work, cut from black landscaping cloth, originates in a coiled form in the upper gallery, moves up and over a railing, and cascades to the ground floor where it spills out into a large pool in the lower space. The work expands from one centimetre in width at its source to six metres wide. The size of the pattern also increases - quite gradually in the upper part and then rapidly as it reaches the far wall of the lower gallery. This volume and scale contrast with the ideal of order and beauty proposed by the original textile design and suggest a reading of ornament as threatening and disturbing. 'Spill' conjures images of toxic spills and other unnatural disasters.
Des mesures : dimensions: 17m (60') long x from/de 1cm to/à 6m (3/8
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2002
Matériaux : landscaping cloth
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Bloom
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64712
Description: In 'Sub Rosa', 'Influx', 'Bloom' and 'Cluster', invasions of viruses infiltrate large fields of repeating all over designs printed on wooden panels. The curved edges of these patterned fields define them within the rectangular supports as curtains or hangings. Their stylized swags relate to art historical conventions of representing cloth hangings as flat patterned surfaces defined by a simplified shape. The virus images may initially suggest embroidered embellishments and encrustations of gemstones or pearls used in rich historical textiles and garments. However, on closer inspection they introduce a foreign element into the body of the pattern. They cluster and spread their graphic, often crystalline forms through the designs. Both in their arrangement and their form these invaders are revealed to be at odds with their ordered surroundings.
Des mesures : 203cm x 274cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2003
Matériaux : screen print, paint, varnish on wood panel
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Bloom, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64713
Description: In 'Sub Rosa', 'Influx', 'Bloom' and 'Cluster', invasions of viruses infiltrate large fields of repeating all over designs printed on wooden panels. The curved edges of these patterned fields define them within the rectangular supports as curtains or hangings. Their stylized swags relate to art historical conventions of representing cloth hangings as flat patterned surfaces defined by a simplified shape. The virus images may initially suggest embroidered embellishments and encrustations of gemstones or pearls used in rich historical textiles and garments. However, on closer inspection they introduce a foreign element into the body of the pattern. They cluster and spread their graphic, often crystalline forms through the designs. Both in their arrangement and their form these invaders are revealed to be at odds with their ordered surroundings.
Des mesures : 203cm x 274cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2003
Matériaux : screen print, paint, varnish on wood panel
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Influx, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64711
Description: In 'Sub Rosa', 'Influx', 'Bloom' and 'Cluster', invasions of viruses infiltrate large fields of repeating all over designs printed on wooden panels. The curved edges of these patterned fields define them within the rectangular supports as curtains or hangings. Their stylized swags relate to art historical conventions of representing cloth hangings as flat patterned surfaces defined by a simplified shape. The virus images may initially suggest embroidered embellishments and encrustations of gemstones or pearls used in rich historical textiles and garments. However, on closer inspection they introduce a foreign element into the body of the pattern. They cluster and spread their graphic, often crystalline forms through the designs. Both in their arrangement and their form these invaders are revealed to be at odds with their ordered surroundings.
Des mesures : 203cm x 274cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2003
Matériaux : screen print, paint, varnish on wood panel
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Influx
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64710
Description: In 'Sub Rosa', 'Influx', 'Bloom' and 'Cluster', invasions of viruses infiltrate large fields of repeating all over designs printed on wooden panels. The curved edges of these patterned fields define them within the rectangular supports as curtains or hangings. Their stylized swags relate to art historical conventions of representing cloth hangings as flat patterned surfaces defined by a simplified shape. The virus images may initially suggest embroidered embellishments and encrustations of gemstones or pearls used in rich historical textiles and garments. However, on closer inspection they introduce a foreign element into the body of the pattern. They cluster and spread their graphic, often crystalline forms through the designs. Both in their arrangement and their form these invaders are revealed to be at odds with their ordered surroundings.
Des mesures : 203cm x 274cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2003
Matériaux : screen print, paint, varnish on wood panel
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Flourish exhibition
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64709
Description: In 'Sub Rosa', 'Influx', 'Bloom' and 'Cluster', invasions of viruses infiltrate large fields of repeating all over designs printed on wooden panels. The curved edges of these patterned fields define them within the rectangular supports as curtains or hangings. Their stylized swags relate to art historical conventions of representing cloth hangings as flat patterned surfaces defined by a simplified shape. The virus images may initially suggest embroidered embellishments and encrustations of gemstones or pearls used in rich historical textiles and garments. However, on closer inspection they introduce a foreign element into the body of the pattern. They cluster and spread their graphic, often crystalline forms through the designs. Both in their arrangement and their form these invaders are revealed to be at odds with their ordered surroundings.
Des mesures : Sub Rosa: 203cm 274cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2003
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Repeat (museum intervention)
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64714
Description: museum intervention: Royal Ontario Museum (Samuel European Galleries) curated by the Institute for Contemporary Culture.
In 'Repeat' grouped aluminum objects are presented in a museum vitrine. The motifs are elements from a textile pattern - all the components needed to create five identical "repeats" - to be fit together and printed or woven across a surface. Out of the context of the entire design, grouped according to size and shape, and translated into metal, the pieces suggest cogs, medals, or weapons arranged for display by type. The work examines museological systems of ordering and classification as well as the concept of the unique object and its associated aura. In this work the repeated fragments, presented as valuable but identical artifacts, raise questions about their status.
Des mesures : 183 x 96 x 51cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2003
Matériaux : aluminum, velvet, plinth, museum case
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Model (museum intervention)
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64715
Description: museum intervention: Royal Ontario Museum (Samuel European Galleries) curated by the Institute for Contemporary Culture.
'Model' consists of an arrangement of cut and stacked white marble pieces displayed in a table vitrine. From a distance the vitrine appears to contain the model of a city or a group of buildings, but upon closer viewing these structures coalesce into the symmetrically arranged floral motifs of a damask pattern. The pattern, translated into towers of repeated fragments, has a futuristic quality seemingly at odds with its historical origins. The work, originally produced as an intervention for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, refers both to contemporary architectural models and to museum reconstructions of ancient sites. The Carrara marble connotes beauty, solidity, and permanence while at the same time conjuring images of the fragmentary artifacts and crumbling ruins of classical sculpture and architecture.
Des mesures : 99cm x 122cm x 122cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2003
Matériaux : Carrara marble, acrylic vitrine, wood, paint
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Model, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64716
Description: museum intervention: Royal Ontario Museum (Samuel European Galleries) curated by the Institute for Contemporary Culture.
'Model' consists of an arrangement of cut and stacked white marble pieces displayed in a table vitrine. From a distance the vitrine appears to contain the model of a city or a group of buildings, but upon closer viewing these structures coalesce into the symmetrically arranged floral motifs of a damask pattern. The pattern, translated into towers of repeated fragments, has a futuristic quality seemingly at odds with its historical origins. The work, originally produced as an intervention for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, refers both to contemporary architectural models and to museum reconstructions of ancient sites. The Carrara marble connotes beauty, solidity, and permanence while at the same time conjuring images of the fragmentary artifacts and crumbling ruins of classical sculpture and architecture.
Des mesures : 99cm x 122cm x 122cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2003
Matériaux : Carrara marble, acrylic vitrine, wood, paint
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Model, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64717
Description: museum intervention: Royal Ontario Museum (Samuel European Galleries) curated by the Institute for Contemporary Culture.
'Model' consists of an arrangement of cut and stacked white marble pieces displayed in a table vitrine. From a distance the vitrine appears to contain the model of a city or a group of buildings, but upon closer viewing these structures coalesce into the symmetrically arranged floral motifs of a damask pattern. The pattern, translated into towers of repeated fragments, has a futuristic quality seemingly at odds with its historical origins. The work, originally produced as an intervention for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, refers both to contemporary architectural models and to museum reconstructions of ancient sites. The Carrara marble connotes beauty, solidity, and permanence while at the same time conjuring images of the fragmentary artifacts and crumbling ruins of classical sculpture and architecture.
Des mesures : 99cm x 122cm x 122cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2003
Matériaux : Carrara marble, acrylic vitrine, wood, paint
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Shift, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64721
Description: Shift' translates a damask design originally meant for a fine linen table cloth into five hundred identical floral motifs cut from thick industrial wool felt and arranged on the floor. The motifs, simplified and enlarged, are used as component blocks to build a patterned field that blurs the distinction between the cultural and the natural. The work refers to carpets and other floor coverings while also suggesting a mesa-like landscape or tiered garden. Ornamental motifs are laid end-to-end and stacked to create a soft stepped terrain whose accumulated fragments coalesce into a potentially unstable and shifting ground.
Des mesures : 37cm x 321cm x 508cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2004
Matériaux : wool felt
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Shift
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64720
Description: Shift' translates a damask design originally meant for a fine linen table cloth into five hundred identical floral motifs cut from thick industrial wool felt and arranged on the floor. The motifs, simplified and enlarged, are used as component blocks to build a patterned field that blurs the distinction between the cultural and the natural. The work refers to carpets and other floor coverings while also suggesting a mesa-like landscape or tiered garden. Ornamental motifs are laid end-to-end and stacked to create a soft stepped terrain whose accumulated fragments coalesce into a potentially unstable and shifting ground.
Des mesures : 37cm x 321cm x 508cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2004
Matériaux : wool felt
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Catch
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64718
Description: Catch' is a laser cut pleather work that hangs in swags from a ceiling or skylight, pooling on the floor below. Its baroque form is at odds with the contemporary materiality of the slick, glinting synthetic leather and the excessive repetition of a delicate circular vine pattern further distances the work from the 15th century embroidered bodice that inspired it. What seems a charming reference to nature on the small scale of a woman's garment becomes excessive and potentially threatening on a scale more than large enough to enclose the entire body in its folds. While alluding to extravagant draperies and bed hangings, Catch also conveys an undercurrent of menace and entrapment associated with nets and webs, both natural and man made.
Des mesures : 487cm x 427cm x 550cm (16' x 14' x 18')
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2004
Matériaux : pleather (synthetic leather)
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Catch, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64719
Description: Catch' is a laser cut pleather work that hangs in swags from a ceiling or skylight, pooling on the floor below. Its baroque form is at odds with the contemporary materiality of the slick, glinting synthetic leather and the excessive repetition of a delicate circular vine pattern further distances the work from the 15th century embroidered bodice that inspired it. What seems a charming reference to nature on the small scale of a woman's garment becomes excessive and potentially threatening on a scale more than large enough to enclose the entire body in its folds. While alluding to extravagant draperies and bed hangings, Catch also conveys an undercurrent of menace and entrapment associated with nets and webs, both natural and man made.
Des mesures : 487cm x 427cm x 550cm (16' x 14' x 18')
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2004
Matériaux : pleather (synthetic leather)
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Stack
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64725
Description: The sculptural works 'Compound', 'Block', 'Rise', 'Stack', and 'Ring' are built up using cut and stacked ornamental motifs and housed in small wall mounted vitrines. Various materials commonly associated with building construction are used in the sculptures. The motifs are based on sections excerpted from the design of a damask textile - the same textile fragment that inspired "Model", created in 2003. The scale and presentation of the sculptures establishes a relationship with architectural models and a set of accompanying drawings further explores this connection by examining the grouped motifs in plan, elevation and isometric views. By employing materials such as metal and stone in place of those typical for model making and by using ornamental fragments as structural building blocks, the works in Construct invert established relationships between building and model, architecture and ornament.
Des mesures : 29cm x 37cm x 39cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2005
Matériaux : steel, acrylic vitrine, wood base, paint
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Block, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64723
Description: The sculptural works 'Compound', 'Block', 'Rise', 'Stack', and 'Ring' are built up using cut and stacked ornamental motifs and housed in small wall mounted vitrines. Various materials commonly associated with building construction are used in the sculptures. The motifs are based on sections excerpted from the design of a damask textile - the same textile fragment that inspired "Model", created in 2003. The scale and presentation of the sculptures establishes a relationship with architectural models and a set of accompanying drawings further explores this connection by examining the grouped motifs in plan, elevation and isometric views. By employing materials such as metal and stone in place of those typical for model making and by using ornamental fragments as structural building blocks, the works in Construct invert established relationships between building and model, architecture and ornament.
Des mesures : 29cm x 37cm x 39cm (11½
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2005
Matériaux : Baltic birch plywood, acrylic vitrine, wood base, paint
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Block and Rise
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64722
Description: The sculptural works 'Compound', 'Block', 'Rise', 'Stack', and 'Ring' are built up using cut and stacked ornamental motifs and housed in small wall mounted vitrines. Various materials commonly associated with building construction are used in the sculptures. The motifs are based on sections excerpted from the design of a damask textile - the same textile fragment that inspired "Model", created in 2003. The scale and presentation of the sculptures establishes a relationship with architectural models and a set of accompanying drawings further explores this connection by examining the grouped motifs in plan, elevation and isometric views. By employing materials such as metal and stone in place of those typical for model making and by using ornamental fragments as structural building blocks, the works in Construct invert established relationships between building and model, architecture and ornament.
Des mesures :
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2005
Matériaux : Baltic birch plywood, acrylic vitrine, wood base, paint
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Stack, detail
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64726
Description: The sculptural works 'Compound', 'Block', 'Rise', 'Stack', and 'Ring' are built up using cut and stacked ornamental motifs and housed in small wall mounted vitrines. Various materials commonly associated with building construction are used in the sculptures. The motifs are based on sections excerpted from the design of a damask textile - the same textile fragment that inspired "Model", created in 2003. The scale and presentation of the sculptures establishes a relationship with architectural models and a set of accompanying drawings further explores this connection by examining the grouped motifs in plan, elevation and isometric views. By employing materials such as metal and stone in place of those typical for model making and by using ornamental fragments as structural building blocks, the works in Construct invert established relationships between building and model, architecture and ornament.
Des mesures : 29cm x 37cm x 39cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2005
Matériaux : steel, acrylic vitrine, wood base, paint
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
Rise drawing
Artist: Jeannie Thib
ID : 64724
Description: The sculptural works 'Compound', 'Block', 'Rise', 'Stack', and 'Ring' are built up using cut and stacked ornamental motifs and housed in small wall mounted vitrines. Various materials commonly associated with building construction are used in the sculptures. The motifs are based on sections excerpted from the design of a damask textile - the same textile fragment that inspired "Model", created in 2003. The scale and presentation of the sculptures establishes a relationship with architectural models and a set of accompanying drawings further explores this connection by examining the grouped motifs in plan, elevation and isometric views. By employing materials such as metal and stone in place of those typical for model making and by using ornamental fragments as structural building blocks, the works in Construct invert established relationships between building and model, architecture and ornament.
Des mesures : 56cm x 38cm
Collection:
Date de réalisation : 2005
Matériaux : pencil on drafting vellum
Collection virtuelle : Original CCCA
