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New Photographic
Exhibition Explores Changing Landscapes
+ Time Collisions in Waterloo
Shift: Time Collisions + Disappearing
Landscapes by Mark Walton
The Button Factory
25 Regina Street South, Waterloo ON
February 1 to March 29, 2011
Opening Reception:
February 11, 2011 5-8pm, with artist in attendance.
This special photographic
exhibit surveys the subject of changing landscapes in
contemporary Waterloo Region over the past half decade. Mark
Walton’s photographs capture the rapid pace of change and
the resulting shifts as the past collides into the present
making fast what becomes our new everyday.
You’ll have a chance to
examine familiar and iconic landscapes already changed,
lost, or in transition. Among them: The fields at Ira Needles
road; Mr. Sushi’s neon window sign; the narrow wooden and
burlap bridge spanning Crook’s Tract and two male transients
sitting on a sidewalk in downtown Kitchener.
Shift: Time Collisions +
Disappearing Landscapes showcases more than 30 colour
landscapes and portraits which probe, provoke and
investigate decay and reconstruction, the end of the road
and the reimaging and reinterpreting of how we live in
Waterloo Region.
“Things ultimately
disappear to become something else,” Walton says. “It’s this
disappearance that intrigues me.”
Born in Hamilton, raised
in Winnipeg and Southern Ontario, Mark Walton moved to Waterloo in 2005. His
multi-media performance work has appeared at IMPACT’09, CAFKA and at the University of Waterloo. He is the
videographer for Dissocia, which will appear at the
University of Waterloo February, 2011 and the Open Ears
Festival in Kitchener, April 2011. Walton is a member of Art
Allies and a Box 10 artist. His work was featured at the Box
10 group show in Kitchener in November 2010. Shift: Time
Collisions + Disappearing Landscapes is his first solo show.
Shift: Time Collisions +
Disappearing Landscapes is made possible with the generous
support of the
Ontario Arts Council, the
Region of Waterloo
Arts Fund,
Essential Image and
the Button Factory.
For further information
or images contact:
Mark Walton,
mark@markwaltonphotography.com
markwaltonphotography.com
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