Gareth Moore's Presentation at Catriona Jeffries

Catriona Jeffries is pleased to announce her representation of Vancouver-based artist Gareth Moore (04). Moore is known for his playful and intellectually rigorous works produced from his interventions into social spaces. He has most recently undertaken a year long project titled Uncertain Pilgrimage in which he traveled to various locations around the world performing a diverse range of activities such as baking and displaying bread at a neighbourhood bakery in Trento, Italy, visiting Richard Long in order to ask for a pair of his shoes, submerging his arm in the Mississippi river, visiting the false caves of Lascaux 2, and working on-site in an antiquarian bookshop in Cologne. These interventions have resulted in the production of ephemeral site specific sculptures, drawings, photographs and texts that tell the story of Moore's in depth immersion into varied social spaces. A major solo exhibition of Gareth Moore's work at the Catriona Jeffries Gallery in January 2009 will see the completion of this project.

Working with similar ideas, in an unstructured and continually shifting year long experimental project (2005-2006) called St. George Marsh, Moore collaborated with artist Jacob Gleeson to create a hybrid art gallery, art installation and convenience store in a neighbourhood of East Vancouver. Through this collaboration Moore began intensive explorations into notions of museology, art display, community relations, and commerce that have marked the continued engagement of his art practice into the everyday. Moore's relational projects work to dislodge distinctions between art and life by positioning art in relation to human activity.

From April 2 - May 24 2008 a seminal solo exhibition of Moore's work will be presented at the Witte de With in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Moore is also taking part in the exhibition, Passengers at the CCA in San Francisco. Passengers is a year long exhibition, curated by Jens Hoffman, that divides the gallery into two separate spaces - one will contain a group exhibition and the other a solo exhibition. Paralleling the constant fluidity of Moore's practice, at the end of every month each solo artist will be replaced by someone from the group exhibition and a new artist will enter into the group show, transforming the exhibition. Moore is currently part of the group exhibition and will enter the solo part of the exhibition at the CCA in May, 2008.

In 2007 alone, Moore has exhibited work at Murray Guy, New York, Galerie Daniel Buchholz as part of the European Kunsthalle project in Cologne, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporaneo of Trento in Italy and in the Door Slamming Festival in Berlin, Germany. Continuing this momentum, in the summer of 2008 Moore will participate in Dublin's Irish Museum of Modern Art artists' in residence program. An exhibition curated by Jens Hoffmann and Christina Kennedy, titled The Museum, will follow, September 2008 - March 2009.

For further information please contact Catriona Jeffries or Charo Neville at the Catriona Jeffries Gallery.