Works in Progress by Alexis Bulman
Bound Between Seasons is a series of tarp sculptures, familiar shapes and stored forms that subtly connects my experience with Scoliosis to a seasonal occurrence that appears scattered across Canadian properties in late Autumn: Objects tightly swaddled in brightly-coloured tarps.
The project integrates physical difference into a body of work subtly by studying and celebrating the behavioural similarities between the human body and the places where we converge with the land. In one instance a form could be a car under a tarp, or, beneath the surface may lay something more internally complex, less easily understood, and more isolating in nature.
I’ve had the pleasure of touring Bound Between Seasons around the east coast. The first stop was Third Shift, Saint John, NB, then Art in the Open, Charlottetown, PEI. Currently I’m installing these sculptures in Fredericton, NB as the artist in residence with Connexion Artist Run Centre. The final stop of this tour is Nocturne, Halifax, NS. As this project moves later into the Fall I’ve enjoyed seeing the tarped forms that inspired this project popping up in yards across the east coast.
The Bound Between Seasons sculptures are a project in their own right, but they also serve to become the forms and figures depicted in a series of large-scale drawings. The drawings will allow the sculptures to live in a new environment on paper, displaced from their photographed landscapes. Doing so will remove context, making the drawn sculptures appear even more isolated and abstract.
When I arrive back to my Montreal studio I’ll settle into a long studio practice of producing these drawings. —Alexis Bulman
See Alexis’ work:
Artist in Residence
Connexion Artist Run Centre, Fredericton, NB
September 29 - October 11, 2018
Nocturne: Art at Night
Halifax, NS
October 13, 2018
The Body Electric
Exhibition and International Conference on Resident Education
Presented at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
Halifax, NS
October 18 - 20, 2018
Sick Theories
A Trans-Disciplinary Conference on Sickness & Sexuality/ screening component
University of Toronto, ON
November 8 - 9, 2018
VIBE: Transforming ableism through the arts
Exhibition symposium
Concordia University, Montréal, QC
November 30 - December 2, 2018
Find Alexis:
Instagram: alexisbulman
Website: www.alexisbulman.com