{"id":37223504460,"date":"2017-05-29T10:23:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T14:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcmichael1.wpenginepowered.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=37223504460"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:19:00","slug":"needles-and-pins","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/mcmichael.com\/fr\/exposition\/needles-and-pins\/","title":{"rendered":"Needles and Pins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling fusion-equal-height-columns\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:5%;--awb-padding-right:5%;--awb-padding-bottom:5%;--awb-padding-left:5%;--awb-bg-color:#ffffff;--awb-bg-color-hover:#ffffff;--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Colleen Heslin\u2019s paintings resonate with the tension of material and gestural complexity. The artist hand-dyes cotton and linen in small batches, and hangs them to dry, which develops residual surface textures. The stained fabric is then cut and pieced together \u2013 similar to quilt-making construction. Colour is in constant dialogue; the pure simplicity of isolated colour is central to every painting. Considering formal abstraction and craft-based methods of mark making, Heslin\u2019s work thoroughly explores colour, shape, and texture, while acknowledging the histories of photography and textiles, and finding connections with the Colour Field painters of the 1960s and 1970s. Aspects of her process \u2013 specifically dyeing and sewing \u2013 are also inextricably linked to domestic labour, feminism, and craft.<\/p>\n<p>These paintings do not immediately reveal how they are made or what they are about, yet each advocates for close and sustained reading. The work seeks the space of open interpretation, positioned between the unfamiliar and the familiar. Chromatic expanses and complex shapes play off each other to create paintings that are narratively ambiguous, yet intensely evocative and poignant.<\/p>\n<p>The McMichael\u2019s presentation of <em>Colleen Heslin: Needles and Pins<\/em> includes nearly a dozen new works created specifically for our site.<\/p>\n<p>Curator: Naomi Potter<\/p>\n<p>In partnership with the Esker Foundation, Calgary<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colleen Heslin\u2019s paintings resonate with the tension of material and gestural complexity. The artist hand-dyes cotton and linen in small batches, and hangs them to dry, which develops residual surface textures. 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