EXHIBITION: The Order of Things

April 24, 2014 - May 31, 2014

Featuring works by Leif Low-Beer
Curated by Shani K Parsons

The Order of Things or, The Second Conference of the International Network of Personal Relationships (INPR) features new and recent work by Leif Low-Beer (Toronto/Brooklyn), an artist who engages in a playful reordering of ideas, images, and expectations through the use of constructed, multi-part, and/or recombined compositions of drawings, collages, assemblages, and sculptural tableaux. The Order of Things is Low-Beer’s first solo exhibition in Canada.

Evincing a keen interest in the mark of the hand, the relationships between objects in space, and the active engagement of the viewer, Low-Beer’s work is an exploration of psycho-spatial potential, graphing social tensions and internal enigmas that often exist as an underlying narrative layer. However, Low-Beer seeks to transcend fixed ideas or story lines in his work, preferring to create opportunities for meaning that can evolve and expand over time.

Programs, Events, and Public Art

Exhibition Opening
Thursday, April 24th, 2014
7–9 pm: Opening the same night will be Koffler Gallery’s next exhibition featuring Adad Hannah — enjoy two contemporary art events at Artscape Youngplace this evening.

Publications

The Order of Things: Leif Low-Beer. Exhibition Catalogue.

Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) was founded in 2013 under our former name, TYPOLOGY. Established as a not-for-profit space devoted to curatorial and artistic experimentation, we devoted our first three years to providing opportunities for curators and artists to mount fully realized exhibitions within a critical framework. In 2016, we relaunched under our new name (CDCC) with a new Board of Directors and a commitment to meet the need, voiced by local and national curators, for a truly vital curatorial community—one that both supports emerging and underrepresented curators, and advances curatorial practice and inquiry. The Order of Things took place in CDCC’s exhibition space in 2014 under our former name, TYPOLOGY, and was curated by CDCC’s Founding Director, Shani K Parsons. TYPOLOGY Projects was originally located at 180 Shaw Street, No. 302, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto.

Image: The Order of Things or, The Second Conference of the International Network of Personal Relationships (INPR), curated by Shani K Parsons, installation view with work by Leif Low-Beer, TYPOLOGY Projects, 2014.

About the Curator(s)

Shani K Parsons

Since the mid-90s, Shani K Parsons has pursued a multidisciplinary practice focused on exhibition-making — initially through the lenses of architecture, urban planning and public arts administration, then installation, graphic, and environmental design, and most recently through research, writing, curation, and collaboration. She is the Founding Director of Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC).

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About the Artists

Leif Low-Beer

Leif Low-Beer is an artist who engages in a playful reordering of ideas, images, and expectations through the use of constructed, multipart, and/or recombined compositions of drawings, collages, assemblages, and sculptural tableaux.

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Gallery

The Order of Things or, The Second Conference of the International Network of Personal Relationships (INPR), curated by Shani K Parsons, installation view with work by Leif Low-Beer, TYPOLOGY Projects, 2014.

Leif Low-Beer, One way method (notes to notes), 2014, Mixed media on paper, 13.5 x 9 feet, in The Order of Things or, The Second Conference of the International Network of Personal Relationships (INPR), curated by Shani K Parsons, TYPOLOGY Projects, 2014.

Leif Low-Beer, Misplaced desire, 2013, Mixed media, 43 x 38 x 64 inches, in The Order of Things or, The Second Conference of the International Network of Personal Relationships (INPR), curated by Shani K Parsons, TYPOLOGY Projects, 2014.

Leif Low-Beer, The indefinite time period after the present, 2013, Mixed media, 56 x 48 x 68 inches, in The Order of Things or, The Second Conference of the International Network of Personal Relationships (INPR), curated by Shani K Parsons, TYPOLOGY Projects, 2014.

Leif Low-Beer, The indefinite time period after the present (detail), 2013, Mixed media, 56 x 48 x 68 inches, in The Order of Things or, The Second Conference of the International Network of Personal Relationships (INPR), curated by Shani K Parsons, TYPOLOGY Projects, 2014.

Leif Low-Beer, $2,505 eating out (4.01%) and $3,624 eating at home (5.8%) — (AAC), 2013, Mixed media, 48 x 53 x 60 inches, in The Order of Things or, The Second Conference of the International Network of Personal Relationships (INPR), curated by Shani K Parsons, TYPOLOGY Projects, 2014.

Leif Low-Beer, $2,505 eating out (4.01%) and $3,624 eating at home (5.8%) — (AAC), (detail), 2013, in The Order of Things or, The Second Conference of the International Network of Personal Relationships (INPR), curated by Shani K Parsons, TYPOLOGY Projects, 2014.

Leif Low-Beer, Perfect weather while facing a dearth of opportunities, 2014, Mixed media, 14 x 18 x 7 inches, in The Order of Things or, The Second Conference of the International Network of Personal Relationships (INPR), curated by Shani K Parsons, TYPOLOGY Projects, 2014.

Leif Low-Beer, He could always dance through (no matter his state they never tipped), 2014, Mixed media, 25 x 61 x 13 inches, in The Order of Things or, The Second Conference of the International Network of Personal Relationships (INPR), curated by Shani K Parsons, TYPOLOGY Projects, 2014.

Leif Low-Beer, Usually cleaned while they are empty, 2014, Mixed media, 25 x 70.5 x 6.25 inches, in The Order of Things or, The Second Conference of the International Network of Personal Relationships (INPR), curated by Shani K Parsons, TYPOLOGY Projects, 2014.

Leif Low-Beer, Force per unit area applied in a direction (as it relates to one’s father), 2014, Mixed media, 9 x 14 x 6.25 inches, in The Order of Things or, The Second Conference of the International Network of Personal Relationships (INPR), curated by Shani K Parsons, TYPOLOGY Projects, 2014.

Leif Low-Beer, exhibition catalogue, (detail), The Order of Things or, The Second Conference of the International Network of Personal Relationships (INPR), curated by Shani K Parsons, TYPOLOGY Projects, 2014.

Leif Low-Beer, Artist’s sketch for One way method (notes to notes), 2014, digital print on matte poster paper, 18 x 24 inches, open edition, in The Order of Things or, The Second Conference of the International Network of Personal Relationships (INPR), curated by Shani K Parsons, TYPOLOGY Projects, 2014.

Leif Low-Beer, One way method (notes to notes), 2014, Mixed media on paper, 13.5 x 9 feet, (view of the installation in progress), in The Order of Things or, The Second Conference of the International Network of Personal Relationships (INPR), curated by Shani K Parsons, TYPOLOGY Projects, 2014.