Ultrabionova
Ingrid Mary Percy
October 25 – November 30, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday October 24, 8pm
Performance: Friday October 24, 8:30pm
In both her video and drawings, Ingrid Mary Percy produces science-based imagery with the aid of a common children’s toy, either Lite Brite or Spirograph. Real and imagined pathogens are rendered in bright pegs of color and finely drawn lines. The familiarity of these toys draws us into a common history with the artist.
But these are not child-like pictures. The imagery presented is not of a clown or a pleasing arrangement of mechanical twirls. This is the imagery of adulthood, of disease and decay. This is the imagery of the contemporary world: viruses, bacteria, and microscopic organisms that we live in fear of. Yet, referencing contemporary art theory and practice, Percy brings strong elements of design, fantasy and beauty to her subject. With ATOMIKA and SPIRA VIRA, Ingrid Mary Percy has produced an interesting and disturbing interface between art and science, toy and tool, childhood and adulthood.
- Linda Sawchyn, Curator, Art Gallery of Kelowna