Takashi Hilerfink and Luke Fair

28jan(jan 28)7:02 pm23feb(feb 23)7:02 pmTakashi Hilerfink and Luke Fair

Event Details

Opening Reception
Thursday, January 30th – 4pm to 6pm

 

Artist Talk
Saturday, February 22nd – 12pm to 1pm

 

“In This Economy?” is an opportunity for Luke Fair and Takashi Hilferink to exhibit their paintings in conversation with each other, exploring the intersections between the 21st century pyramid scheme of homeownership, and the anthropocentric toll of housing construction and resource extraction. What are the boundaries of a home – four walls and a roof? Do we include our local environments, our neighbourhoods and parks, schools, stripmalls and streets? Where and how do we decide the limits of the stewardship or maintenance of our “homes”? This selection of paintings complicates well-worn North American myths which support increasingly precarious ecological and economic realities.

Luke Fair
www.lukefair.ca
Instagram: @fair_luke

Luke Fair is a visual artist currently based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. He was raised in Calgary, AB on treaty 7 territory. He holds a BFA from the University of Victoria and MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Through his work, he attempts to understand land as an active participant and collaborator to which he must cultivate the capacity to listen. Unfolding such work is aimed at developing ecologically sustainable visions of the future. If land isn’t perceived as just a repository of resources, but, with us, a being-in-relationship, how must we change what we do? Walking the liminal boundaries of curated landscapes, his painting and drawing practice reflects on the concepts of nature and place. His work has been shown in Canada, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland.

Takashi Hilferink
http://www.takashi-hilferink.com/
Instagram: @tacklbox

Takashi Hilferink’s fascination with the differences between a house and a home come from his burgeoning family, causing him to reflect not only on the traumas of his childhood, but the broader inheritance of cultural memory and institutions. This hauntological midpoint anchors his desire to create paintings as sensitivity intensifiers or therapeutic containers, paintings of places which can be both winsome and fulsome, abject and tender, real and imagined. Much like a house, these paintings prompt a physical reckoning with material reality, while like a home, they filter the abstractions of personal experience.

A fraught childhood in Cincinnati, Ohio encouraged Takashi to move to Toronto, where he earned a BFA at York University. More recently, he completed the MFA program at NSCAD University, where he now works as the Drawing and Painting Technician. His children are one and four years old, and remind him daily that, similar to a model home, a model parent is likely more fantasy than fact.

 

Time

January 28, 2025 7:02 pm - February 23, 2025 7:02 pm(GMT-04:00)

Location

The Craig Main & Case Gallery

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