Candy Floss Pink: A Landscape

Michelle Allard

April 29 to May 28, 2011

Candy Floss Pink, the ninth installation in Michelle Allard’s Office Paper series, involves the reorganization of ubiquitous shipping, storage and data based materials. A smaller work conceived of and realized in-situ for Deluge, Candy Floss Pink forms a visual and conceptual play between modes of accumulation—what stays; and dispersal—what moves, while ceding to natural processes, turning the gallery into a hive of production. Previous installations have been exhibited in France, Japan and Canada.

Michelle Allard is visual artist based in Vancouver BC, with an MFA from the University of Guelph (2002). Having received numerous production grants from the BC Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts, Allard has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at galleries and artist run centres such as Atelier Tilde B, Paris (2009), Richmond Art Gallery (2007/08), Mercer Union (2006), and has taken part in artist residencies in Canada, France and northern Japan. Allard’s most recent activities are a solo exhibition Materialscape at the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery (2011), a window installation at Convenience Gallery in Toronto, the prestigious Paris residency awarded by the Canada Council in 2009 and the award live/work studio provided by the City of Vancouver (2009–2012). Upcoming projects include a residency in Spain and a solo residency/exhibition at OU Galerie, Marseilles France (2012).