Arnold McBay
The idea of home (be it the home of language, or home as residence) is perhaps most often seen (at least ideally) as something re-assuring, nurturing or sheltering. I prefer to see it in more complicated and fraught terms. Something unstable, ever-changing, elusive and enmeshed in infinitely broader contexts.
Laser toner on discarded cardboard.
12” x 12”
Arnold McBay is a mixed-media visual artist and studio instructor at Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada. Recent projects are: collaboration with Gregory Betts (Signs of our Discontent: the textures of our solitude) for In the Soil Festival in St. Catharines; a chapbook featuring the Signs of our Discontent project (published by Above/Ground Press, Ottawa) and exhibits at the John B. Aird Gallery in Toronto and Grimsby Public Art Gallery in Grimsby, Ontario. He is also a member of the St. Catharines based improvisational noise/sound band TZT. He is represented by Thielsen Galleries of London, Ontario and has work in private and public collections across North America.
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A collaboration: Gary Barwin responding to Arnold McBay’s ‘The size of a cardboard box’.