The Olga Korper Gallery is pleased to present …and it’s ending one minute at a time., an exhibition of new work by Canadian artist Ken Nicol. The exhibition will open on October 3rd and will remain on view until October 31st. The opening will be held on Saturday October 3rd from 2-5pm and the artist will be in attendance.
Ken’s inaugural exhibition at Olga Korper Gallery will feature a selection of works rooted in the artist’s established trajectory of repetitive mark making, collecting, assembling and organizing/re-organizing. This exhibition marks the realization of three major projects that Ken has been laboring towards for several years. Many of these pieces reflect the march of time as a slow, steady trickling away of precious minutes. Ken’s painstaking process records the hours, days and weeks of spending this precious and finite currency of time with acute self-awareness.
this is your life…, the first major project and the largest body of work in the exhibition, is comprised of 55 grids, 30 x 20 inches each of hand typed sentences. Each sheet counts down the number of minutes in an eight-hour work day, minute by minute. Each grid after the first begins by removing the first character of the sentence and results in a new pattern emerging on the page.
In keeping with his tradition of assembling objects into groupings of one hundred, Ken has spent the last decade collecting and repairing one hundred Westclox Baby Ben alarm clocks for his monumental work one hundred of the same clock. These hand wound timepieces from the late 1940s present a unified front of unfeeling mechanical faces as they whisper away the lost seconds of the day.
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October 3, 2015 2:00 pm – 5:00 pmArtist Links
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Included Artworks
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one hundred of the same clock, 2015
Ken Nicol100 westclox baby bens, model 61v (1949-1955) 21.5” x 80”
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this is your life...corrections (1), 2015
Ken Nicoltypewriter corrector film, stainless steel 10.5” x 8”
this is your life...corrections (2), 2015
Ken Nicoltypewriter corrector film, stainless steel 10.5” x 8”
this is your life...corrections (3), 2015
Ken Nicoltypewriter corrector film, stainless steel 10.5” x 8”
this is your life...corrections (4), 2015
Ken Nicoltypewriter corrector film, stainless steel 10.5” x 8”
this is your life...corrections (5), 2015
Ken Nicoltypewriter corrector film, stainless steel 10.5” x 8”
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...and it’s ending one minute at a time. (1), 2015
Ken Nicoltypewritten ink - sort of - on paper 30" x 20" paper
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...and it’s ending one minute at a time. (1), 2015
Ken Nicoltypewritten ink - sort of - on paper 30" x 20" paper
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...and it’s ending one minute at a time. (1), 2015
Ken Nicoltypewritten ink - sort of - on paper 30" x 20" paper
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...and it’s ending one minute at a time. (1), 2015
Ken Nicoltypewritten ink - sort of - on paper 30" x 20" paper
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...and it’s ending one minute at a time. (1), 2015
Ken Nicoltypewritten ink - sort of - on paper 30" x 20" paper