AMY MODAHL: Midden

AMY MODAHL
Midden

Opening reception: Thurs, May 29, 6-8PM
Exhibition: May 29 – June 21, 2025

Mezzanine space
Wil Aballe
1375 Railspur Alley, Vancouver, BC
Hours: Tues – Sat, 12-5 PM

Exhibition PDF

For inquiries please contact Wil Aballe, wil@waapart.com

ARTIST STATEMENT

In painting and drawing, I have used the still life genre to relieve common objects of their purpose, to feature them as characters as if in a series of tableaus. The paintings in this exhibition focus on Herald Nix’s studio, where collections appear just as the artist left them, gathered in new stacks each day.  Whether carefully organized or haphazardly stacked, these objects seem to write humorous little stories throughout the home and studio.  Like a midden, I see those arrangements as a transitory record, the detritus of daily life that I fix in new form where the objects merge, shift roles, and meaning.

BIO

In recent years, Salmon Arm-based artist Amy Modahl has focused on painting, a practice for which she was awarded the 2023 Tanabe Prize for a mid-career painter.  Modahl’s work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions at the Kelowna Art Gallery; Kamloops Art Gallery; the Alternator Centre (Kelowna); Stride Gallery (Calgary); Vernon Public Art Gallery; and Soo Visual Art Center (Minneapolis, MN). She has an Interdisciplinary Masters of Fine Art in Visual Art from the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus; a Masters in Applied Linguistics from Northern Arizona University; and a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art, Art History, and Spanish from St. Cloud State in Minnesota.