(Ex)tending Towards, a solo exhibition by Jane Tingley.

The Ottawa School of Art, Orleans Campus Gallery is proud to present (Ex)tending Towards, a solo exhibition by Jane Tingley.

Join us from February 25 to March 28, 2024, at the Ottawa School of Art’s Orleans Gallery located on the main floor of the Shenkman Arts Centre to see this challenging artwork.

We are pleased to have Jane Tingley here in the gallery for an artist talk and reception on Sunday, February 25 from 1:00 to p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome!

Ottawa School of Art Orleans campus Gallery located in the Shenkman Arts Centre
Free Reception. All Welcome!
245 Centrum Blvd. Orleans ON. K1E 0A1

What does it mean to be alive and have agency? How can we re-train ourselves to slow down and listen to voices marginalized for millennia? These questions drive Jane Tingley’s exploration of the temporal differences between humans and trees: Slowing down the human experience, and making the patterns of a tree’s slow grow visible to the human eye. Light, wind, particulate matter, carbon dioxide and other data points become a scintillating computer visualization of 24 hours in a tree’s life. A one-meter tall cork scent sculpture infuses the gallery with geosmin, the scent of a forest after it rains, inviting the viewer to connect with the tree at the rare Charitable Reserve in Cambridge, ON. Through simple and controlled gestures, the viewer can explore the last 24 hours of a tree’s experience, discovering each ring of data, while mindfully slowing their own body down in order to engage with the visualisation.

Jane Tingley is an artist, curator and Associate Professor at York University. Her studio work combines traditional studio practice with new media tools, and spans responsive/interactive installation, performative robotics, and telematically connected distributed sculptures/installations. Her work is interdisciplinary in nature and explores the creation of spaces and experiences that push the boundaries between science and magic, interactivity, and playfulness, and offer an experience to the viewer that is accessible both intellectually and technologically. Using distributed technologies, her current work investigates the hidden complexity found in the natural world and explores the deep interconnections between the human and non-human relationships. She has participated in exhibitions and festivals in the Americas, Middle East, Asia, and Europe.