Ron Terada See Other Side of Sign, 2006

Catriona Jeffries Gallery is pleased to present works by gallery artists in several exhibition sites at Art Basel Miami Beach.

Geoffrey Farmer, Judy Radul and Ron Terada will exhibit new works in Booth N9 of the Miami Beach Convention Centre. Gareth Moore will participate in Art Perform.

Geoffrey Farmer's sculptures and watercolours relate to his new installation which involved a film-set prop of the interior of a 727 commercial jet. Responding sculpturally to the now-phantom fuselage, brooms, lightbulbs, and figural stand-ins have been reconfigured and re-oriented in three different directions. Farmer’s drawings stage these somewhat anthropomorphic components as characters engaging in a philosophical dialogue. Farmer’s work has been seen nationally and internationally: his forthcoming exhibitions include the The Drawing Room, London (May/July 2007), the Tate Modern, London (October 2007), the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (February/March 2008) and the Witte de With, Rotterdam (2008).

At Art Basel Miami Beach, a new video installation by Judy Radul will splice human activity and digital sound-making. Involving two performers, the piece is entitled Five Pieces of Relation: Attention to the people in the plaza / Use both hands to respond by ringing / Anxious causality laptop version / Animal Voices on the air / On the verge of appearing live. Radul’s major 5-channel projection installation, Downes Point, was shown recently in the exhibition Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists at the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst in Antwerp following its premiere in Radul’s solo show at Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver.

Ron Terada’s work for Art Basel Miami Beach, You & Us, references the slogan of the fair’s prominent corporate sponsor, the UBS financial company, but perhaps its subtle affirmation of separation could potentially be readdressed in various ways. In addition, Terada will display two new photo works, Concrete Language, shown recently at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, and See Other Side of Sign. Terada participated recently in the Shanghai Biennale and has held solo shows at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and the Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor.

For the duration of Art Basel Miami Beach, Gareth Moore will operate a small self designed kiosk and vending structure for such items as art catalogues, pens, maps, disposable cameras, bumper stickers, lemonade, and other objects, most of them slightly altered or hand made. Situated near the Art Perform stage and the gallery containers of Art Positions, Moore will operate his kiosk during the regular opening hours of Art Positions including those times scheduled for the other performances. With this project Moore returns to ideas originally examined in his best known work, St. George Marsh, a small corner shop he ran in Vancouver for a few years together with his collaborator Jacob Gleeson. Moore is currently participating in the exhibition The Theater of Lifeat the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento, Italy.

Jessie Caryl