Joseph Hubbard

INSTALLATIONS / PERFORMANCE
SEVERAL SIGNIFICANT INSTALLATIONS/PERFORMANCES
HAVE BEEN PRODUCED OVER A TWENTY YEAR PERIOD

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NU-CLEAR TOWERS	NUCLEAR TOWERS 102cm (42") H x 59cm(23") diameter Hand-thrown ceramic, iron filing finish. At scale these have seductive, tactile presence. Exhibited London, Toronto, Waterloo, (Ontario), Montreal.

DISPLACED VALUE An eight foot square installation (on 28" high platform) consisting of sixty hand built identical ceramic SUBURBAN HOUSES. These are varied by coloured glazes on roofs and doors. On the surrounding gallery walls hangs a sequence of oversized black and white framed mural-sized photos of an actual subdivision from excavation through completion and eventual destruction by a tornado. The centre of the installation is completely broken and reduced to shards with a hammer during the exhibition as an interventionist performance! This stands in stark relationship to the oversized photos on the walls. In this work, the artist predicted and affirmed human reaction to the intervention of disaster. Installation exhibited in London, Toronto, and Montreal.

DISPLACED VALUE

MONEY, FORM, TIME, SPACE

MONEY, FORM, TIME, SPACE An eight foot high by 24 ft wide black and white photomural of SHOPPING MALL forms a backdrop on a large exhibition wall behind the work. The particular deteriorating mall had been observed and photographed for ten years prior to the installation work, and for 15 years afterward! In front of this ubiquitous suburban image stand 100 PARKING METERS on swaying poles installed on three 4 x 8 ft. platforms. The numbered meters are slipcast ceramic over curved ABS plastic pipes of varying heights. A catalogue was produced examining this particular installation work. Research included development and history of the ubiquitous device which has evoked curious emotional responses and penalties for non-compliance. In the film Cool Hand Luke, Paul Newman played a chain-gang inmate whose crime was the destruction of a parking meter. The image has been used in several other works because of its morpheme shape and meaning. The economic development of the suburban mall is due in no small part to the blissful absence of metered parking. Cheap suburban space and free parking have contributed to the growth of peripheral development to the detriment of urban cores. But the ultimate toll on arable land, the cultural sameness, lack of diversity (the real issues of this installation); have not been reckoned with. Installation exhibited in London, Toronto, and Montreal. "There have been hundreds of clay installations produced in North America. None approaches the work of this artist in sociological significance."        —Maurice Desjardins, Montreal

SECURITY STATION 25 Könstmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008 244cm (96") H x 40 cm (16") W x 15cm (6") D wall installation; constructed brass alarm, ca:1935 telephone, adhesive numbers.

DISPLACED VALUE

MONEY, FORM, TIME, SPACE

ART VAULT: KUNSTMUSEUM Bergen, Norway, 2008 226cm (89") H x 87cm (34.5") W x 13cm (5") D Wall installation:chromed, stainless steel parts, fibreglass hinges, mouldings, masonite, camera.

THE VIEW FROM (T)HERE Art Gallery of Windsor, 2011 Two syncronized ten minute HD videos of the Detroit River shot from in front of the Art Gallery of Windsor and simultaneously across the river from the American side.

THE VIEW FROM (T)HERE

COLLABORATION WITH A DEAD ARTIST

COLLABORATION WITH A DEAD ARTIST Art Gallery of Windsor, 2011 2010; model #401 Art Deco style awning, brass roller mechanism, fabric; 39.75" x 46.75" x 19" (101 x 119 x 48.5 cm); mixed media, art vault rack, 10 portraits by Wyndham Lewis ca. 1944, collection of the AGW. Dimensions variable.

JOSÉ LOUIS CUEVAS REVEALED Art Gallery of Windsor, 2011 2011; 112 merged images by Joseph Hubbard and first time translation texts; translations by Audrey Kay Restorick, PhD, utilizing 39 framed watercolour/letter pages by J. L. Cuevas, ca. 1976-78, collection of the AGW; dimensions variable

JOSÉ LOUIS CUEVAS REVEALED

TROJAN GIFT FOR A MUSEUM (CONTRABAND BOX) (UN CADEAU POUR UN MUSEUM NATIONALE)

TROJAN GIFT FOR A MUSEUM (CONTRABAND BOX) 2010-11 (UN CADEAU POUR UN MUSEUM NATIONALE) 2010-11 Art Gallery of Windsor, 2011 2010-11 National Gallery of Canada museum crate, mixed media, survival gear for smuggling artist into a gallery; 53" x 66" x 28" (134.6 x 167.64 x 71 cm); books include: copy of the 1st issue of Blast by Wyndham Lewis, Derrida for Dummies, Post-Modernism for Dummies, Semiotics for Dummies, The Museum As Muse, J.L. Cuevas suite of drawings ITALIAN PRIMITIVE FOR AN INSIDE CORNER 1986; 19th c. oil on canvas, light,switchplate; 21.25" x 12.6" x 7" (54 x 32 x 18 cm)

 

 

 

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