Flatten

Flatten,  2012
Hugo de Kok and Kay van Vree

Mark Dion

Scala Naturae

1994

The Collector

2004

Library for the birds of Massachussets

2005

Livia Marin

Fictions of a Use II

Order & Similarity I

Tom Friedman

Tom Friedman.  1,500 pieces of chewed bubble gum, molded into a perfect sphere.

Untitled 1990 The artist writes his signature repeatedly for the life of a pen 106.7 cm

Untitled 1997. Drinking Straws

Things organized neatly

Martin Creed

The Multiple Store

Jonathan Callan
Poem, 2000

Cornelia Parker

Meteorite Lands in the Middle of Nowhere, 2001

Anya Gallaccio

Cast, 2003

http://www.themultiplestore.org/

Teruyoshi Yoshida

Teruyoshi Yoshida
Surface of the Lake
Cotton cloth, gold leaf, iron
1985

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Barb Hunt

Head to Head

Kelly Mark, The Kiss (Light Box), 2009

Micah Lexier, Two Ways To Make 2, 2000

Micah Lexier & Kelly Mark: Head-to-Head

27 August - 9 October 2011

Saint Marys University Art Gallery

Micah Lexier and Kelly Mark both live in Toronto and spent formative years at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD University). These friends often work with similar procedures or materials, but manifesting distinct sensibilities. Counting and text figure frequently in the work of both artists: both make pieces that record and quantify the passage of time. Both have designed tattoos, or worked with their own "signatures" as written by other people. In a spirit at once collaborative and playfully competitive, the artists present pairs of work from their respective practices, illustrating their differences of approach as much as their similarities.

felix gonzalez-torres