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Gerard Sternik

Natalia Lauque

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SHELLY RAHME

Mountain 2007
drywall, wood, glass
24'x 10'x 20'

Shelly Rahme is an emerging artist who lives and works in Toronto and Northern Ontario. In 2005, she returned to Canada from the United States where she had been studying and working. She received her Masters of Fine Art from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. It was in Southern Illinois where she began to create large scale indoor and outdoor sculptural installations. She continues this practice along with recent experiments in making small sculptural landscapes. She uses industrial material to create landforms and natural phenomena. Her work appears as hybrids of manufactured material and nature.

The central focus of Shelly Rahme work is reflected in her use of materials. She uses the industrial materials that shape our built environment: the asphalt of roads, the glass and drywall of buildings, to list a few. Rahme uses these materials because of their manufactured flatness and striking contrast with the natural environment. She creates landforms and landscapes ranging from hand-held sculptures to grandiose installations. In doing so, Selly Rahme reverts the industrial material to a quasi natural state.

          Asteroid          2007
         drywall, rubber, glass
         10'x 12'x 8'

Asteroid (detail)

          Morning Star     2007
              glass, paint, silicone
           16"x 17"x 40"

      Don’t Get Carried Away      2005
      glass, paint, cement
      12"x 50"x 14"

          Just Running Scared
           (Roy Orbison)     2007
           wood, glass, asphalt roofing, casters

Just Running Scared (detail)

     Fire       2007
     electrical cords, rubber
     30"x 10"x 30"

      City         2005
      glass, silicone, sealants
      14"x 24" x14" SOLD