Primal Sense

Sandra Doore

May 15 to June 13, 2009

These sculptures, composed of pre-fabricated clothing morphed with nylon spandex forms, hover between the poles of human regeneration and dissolution, suggesting working organs and growing malignancies co-existing in the realm of fashion and embellishment. Sensual and chromatically intense, Doore’s work aims to explore the mania of consumption as it relates to the creation of the self—external forces that conspire to make us both more, and less, human.

Sandra Doore received her BFA from the University of Victoria and an MFA from San Diego State University in 2007. For the past few years her interest in consumer culture and how it affects our sense of self has influenced her art making. Doore has exhibited her sculptures nationally and in the US, most recently at Comox Valley Art Gallery, Open Space in Victoria and Art Produce in San Diego. Doore has also undertaken curatorial initiatives in the form of  exhibition exchanges between Victoria and San Diego. Currently she is an instructor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Victoria and at the Vancouver Island School of Art.