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Image Credits: Courtesy of the artist.

Main Gallery

Portrait of Lake Ontario

Artist

Nicole Clouston

Exhibition Dates:

November 2, 2018

- November 28, 2018

Opening Reception:

November 9, 2019 6:00 pm

Portrait of Lake Ontario is composed of fifteen acrylic prisms filled with mud that the artist harvested from fifteen locations around the Canadian and American sides of Lake Ontario; each with their own unique microbial community. When exposed to light and provided with nutrients, the microbes already present in the mud began to flourish. Their colonies grew until they were visible to the naked eye as vibrant marbling. They will continue to grow throughout their exhibition.

Artist Biography:

Nicole Clouston is a practice-based researcher and teacher who completed her Ph.D. in Visual Art at York University in Toronto. In her practice, she asks: What happens when we acknowledge, through an embodied experience, our connection to a world teeming with life both around and inside us? Nicole has exhibited across Canada and internationally, most recently in Detroit, Michigan. She was the artist in residence at the Coalesce Bio Art Lab at the University at Buffalo and the artist in residence at Idea Projects: Ontario Science Centre’s Studio Residencies at MOCA.

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