HEATHER GOODCHILD

A HOMESPUN WEB

2012-02-01T09:00:00.044-05:00

4141 Living Arts Drive

Mississauga, Ontario

January 28 - March 11, 2012

Opening Reception Thursday, February 9, 7-9pm

A Homespun Web features the work of three regional contemporary artists using traditional craft to provide engaging social and political commentary. Heather Goodchild, Noelle Hamlyn, and Tazeen Qayyum appropriate a variety of time-honoured processes including embroidery, spinning, smocking, rug hooking, and miniature painting in contemplation of the issues facing our increasingly global culture.

-Cole Swanson, curator

GIFTS BY ARTISTS 2011

2011-12-04T21:48:00.002-05:00

FOR THE HOPE OF THE UNTHANKFUL SHALL MELT AWAY AS THE WINTER'S HOAR FROST, AND SHALL RUN AWAY AS UNPROFITABLE WATER.

Wisdom of Solomon 16:29

Art Metropole

788 King Street West, 2nd floor

December 10 - 23, 2011

Opens December 10, 1-4pm

WALKING THE PATTERN

2011-10-25T00:50:00.011-04:00

photo by Naomi Yasui

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Opening Thursday November 3 from 6-9pm

Runs from November 3 - 27, 2011 at
MULHERIN + POLLARD, New York

End of Freeman Alley or 187 Chrystie Street, New York, NY 10002

WALKING THE PATTERN

2011-09-26T13:15:00.008-04:00

Solo Exhibition

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects

1086 Queen St. W, Toronto

October 7 - 30, 2011

Opens Friday October 7, 6-9PM

everything which tried to move the wheel it mowed and cut down:  And it gathered the multitude of adversaries, and bridged the rivers and crossed over and rooted up many forests and made a broad path. The head went down to the feet, for down to the feet ran the wheel..

from The Odes of Solomon

FIBERARTS MAGAZINE

2011-06-20T23:05:00.010-04:00

Eve Tobolka has featured me in the summer 2011 issue of Fiberarts magazine. This, I'm afraid, will be their last issue, a loss to the contemporary textile art community.

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CONSTANT COMPANION

2011-06-20T22:56:00.009-04:00

I was delighted to work with Doug Paisley and Lee Towndrow to create this album cover for Doug's beautiful second album.

TORONTO HEARTS JAPAN

2011-03-30T21:06:00.006-04:00

I'm pleased to be participating in the fundraiser Toronto Hearts Japan. These Mammals will be included in a silent auction which runs from March 31 to April 5 at the Gladstone Hotel.

Opening Party, April 1st at 7pm

The Gladstone Hotel, 2nd Floor

1214 Queen St. W

Toronto

PARKDALE

2011-03-16T17:27:00.007-04:00

Naomi Yasui and I have created an installation for the Parkdale Fireside Culture Week.

You can see it at Capital Espresso, 1349 Queen Street W from March 14 through to March 19th.

The work evokes both the Victorian beginnings of Parkdale village along with its current vibrant community.

SHADOW BOX 2011

2011-02-10T11:36:00.005-05:00

I'm delighted to be participating in the 35th annual BMO Financial Group Shadow Box Event in support of the Textile Museum of Canada.

Exhibition opens February 23rd, 2011

Auction to be held March 3, 2011 at 6:30pm

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AQUA ART MIAMI

2010-11-26T17:17:00.004-05:00

Aqua Art Miami

December 2 - 5, 2010

1530 Collins Ave,

Miami Beach

My work will be presented by Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects in room #201.

SILAS MARDER GALLERY

2010-11-04T19:08:00.007-04:00

October 16 - November 21, 2010

I'm pleased to be showing my work along with Kiki Smith, Connie Fox, Sally Egbert, Aurora Robson, Corinne von Lubusa, and Emmanuelle Thayer Benard at the beautiful Silas Marder Gallery in Bridgehampton NY.

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THE DAZZLE A Cabinet of Wonder

2010-09-01T14:09:00.008-04:00

September 9 to October 17

Narwhal Art Projects

680 Queen St. W, Toronto

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MULHERIN POLLARD PROJECTS

2010-07-28T17:17:00.009-04:00

317 10th Avenue, New York, NY

August 12 - September 4, 2010

Presenting my latest inlaid patchwork The Balanced Life will Flourish along with work from Davida Nemeroff, Elaine Stocki, Elise Rasmussen, Julia Kennedy, Shauna Born, Sojourner Truth Parsons and Tyler Clark Burke.

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THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED

2009-12-15T23:58:00.014-05:00

KMLA @ AUTOMAT

936 Chung King Rd.

Los Angeles, CA 90012

December 12, 2009 - January 17, 2010

I find myself in excellent company participating in The Road Less Travelled with Kris Knight and Michael Caines.

Curated by Katharine Mulherin, the title and theme are inspired by the Robert Frost poem The Road Not Taken.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less travelled by.

And that has made all the difference.

-Robert Frost, from The Road Not Taken 1915

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THE FIRE AND THE KNIFE

2009-10-14T14:46:00.014-04:00

The Fire and the Knife

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects

1082 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario

October 23, 2009 to November 22, 2009

Reception October 30, 6 pm to 9 pm

Personal transformation requires sacrifice. With The Fire and the Knife I explore the meaning and necessity of sacrifice, which is central to the moral guidelines of the Anna Ward Brouse society. With a previous show, The Revelations of Anna Ward Brouse, I created the society’s origin story. Now, drawing inspiraton from the Shakers, Freemasons and the Girl Guides, I produce its pedagogical hardware: rugs, playing cards, portraits, and dioramas—each with a message to convey.

This exhibit was generously funded by The Toronto Arts Council and The Ontario Arts Council.

NeckLACE Object + Artifact

2009-10-01T22:35:00.012-04:00

photo: Marina Dempster

A group exhibition curated by Marina Dempster

November 5- 28, 2009

Opening November 5, 7-10pm

The Department Gallery 1389 Dundas St. W

www.thedepartment.ca

2009-06-23T15:30:00.006-04:00

UPCOMING

The Fire and the Knife

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects

Opens Friday October 30, 2009

The Fire and the Knife continues my practice of storytelling through textiles, this time exploring the themes of sacrifice and rebirth.

Drawing from Biblical stories (the tale of Abraham and Isaac is the source of the exhibition’s title), and fairy tales such as Beauty and the Beast and The Story of a Mother, the work explores how a sacrifice can lead to reaching a higher level of knowledge, spirituality or happiness. This idea follows naturally from my previous exhibition, The Revelations of Anna Ward Brouse, which explored the Masonic ideals of labour and challenge as a way to gain degrees of self-improvement. Indeed, the fictitious Anna Ward Brouse ladies' society continues to act as a narrative scaffold in The Fire and the Knife.

The pieces, which include large hooked rugs, inlaid patchwork hangings, playing cards, dioramas, and installation elements, are conceived as teaching aids reminiscent of banners handmade for Sunday school classes or Girl Guide meetings. The visual language is drawn from board games, medieval frescoes, Masonic imagery and nineteenth-century Pennsylvania Dutch illustrations, resulting in imagery that feels familiar yet obscure. By creating visual connections among the pieces, I encourage visitors to link and decode the stories being told.