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Adrienne Spier, born: 1974

Working with discarded materials, Spier examines societal waste through sculpture and digital photography. Specifically interested in ideas of failure at the personal and global level and western culture’s increasingly frequent discard of worldly possessions, she continually revives value from our waste. Her work questions at what point efficiency becomes inefficiency, or when the practical becomes useless. In Classroom for example, she attempts to simultaneously deflate and expand a common space. Each desk has all four legs splayed and each leg is touching the leg of the desk beside it. The desks create a geometric pattern referring to nature and institution at the same time. Each desk had been scratched into, drawn on with marker, pen and pencil and stuck up with various flavors of bubble gum. Some desks have a mixture of drawings and text, featuring monsters, love notes, drawings of genitals, insults and the names of popular bands. Sex, drugs, innocence and teenage angst are all evident.

 

Adrienne Spier was born in Montreal and has lived and worked in both Montreal and Toronto. She holds an MFA from Concordia University, completed the Independent Studio Program at the Toronto School of Art, and has a BA in Fine Art from University of Guelph. Her sculpture and installation work has been exhibited often and widely in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Guelph, Canada and in Europe in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and Berlin, Germany.