Promotion

Danielle Hogan

July 13 to August 18, 2007

Promotion is an exhibition which, through the lens of common consumerist culture, both questions and contributes to society’s elevated constructions of “value” and “worth.” The exhibition’s title is a play on words referring both to the commercial act of promoting an object and also to an advancement in rank or position.

The exhibition comprises two related bodies of work. The first, Value Added, consists of a series of inexpensive or mundane objects which have been painstakingly beaded, thereby posing as objects of greater worth. The second series, Quantities Are Limited, is made up of nine 24 x 29" acrylic sheet mounted portraits which relate to the objects and ideas from Value Added through the photographic documentation of human interaction with beaded industrial dust masks.

A visual artist, arts writer and instructor, Danielle Hogan was born in Fredericton and has lived in Victoria since 2002. She holds a diploma in Graphic Design from the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, a BFA from the Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver and a MFA from the University of Victoria. Danielle has been an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, her work is part of the Canada Council for the Arts ArtBank collection and has been exhibited across Canada and in the US. She has curated for UVic’s Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, writes art reviews for Monday Magazine and currently hosts the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s ArtSpeak discussion series.