Renewal #2

Acrylic, photo transfer on canvas.

30x24"

Urban renewal in downtown Oshawa. Rodgers and Wallace would undertake an Oshawa street project in April of this year, in order to expose/articulate commercial change within civic landscape. Oshawa has been and remains an important industrial centre as well as a base for a suburban economy. This body of work is based on hopes for urban renewal in a beleaguered yet feisty city core. Wallace would paint what could be seen from inside a transparent box, until the artist herself had disappeared behind her painted images. Rodgers would produce a series of photograph/painting hybrids based on Oshawa’s downtown, working in the display window at Brush Strokes and interacting with passersby. In addition, a collaborative sound piece would be broadcast from the site.

Our hosts were Anna and Newell, proprietors of BrushStrokes.