SUZANNE WALTERS    "Canada Project" Opens Friday, July 11 UFO FACTORY at MOCAD

PRESS RELEASE:

"Canada Project" at UFO Factory at MOCAD is a show within a show – or an installation within an installation that is itself a reproduction.  As part of the exhibition CONSIDERING DETROIT, we at TIME STEREO/UFO FACTORY recreated our Detroit/Eastern Market art gallery/performance space inside the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD).  With a five-inch model as a guide, we replicated the UFO Factory to scale out of cardboard, wood, tape paint and glue and scheduled three months of programming.

 "Canada Project" at UFO Factory at MoCAD is part of this silver spectacle. Consisting of reproductions of paintings based on photographs of models as well as images of the models themselves, the installation collapses the studio process and presents working methods and results as equal.  Following Time Stereo’s lead, an initial work is supplanted by generations of copies containing both the echo of the original and its inevitable distortion.

"Canada Project" is a body of work begun in 2007 that explores the tradition of landscape painting.