On Exhibit

Toronto based artist Vessna Perunovich will transform Queen Street's Paul Petro Special Project Gallery into a studio/residency site specific space. Enclosed within the Gallery space and exposed to pedestrians through the gallery window, Perunovich will practice her art under the scrutiny of the public eye. For the entire month of February, the audience will have a unique opportunity to experience the artist?s creative process as a public display, rather than an intimate enclosed experience.

With this project Perunovich expands on her studio residency experience and the works she has created during her three-month stay in GlogauAIR Residency in Berlin, Germany in 2009. The work itself revolves around the theme of physical barriers, fences, walls and partitions. Through large scale wall drawings, sculptural installation and window projections, the artist underlines the opposing notions of contentment and freedom, public and private, separation and communication.

From February 1st to the 28th, the artist will produce work using all the available space in her process, shifting her working surface from the walls to the center space and finally to the gallery window. The passers by will be able to observe, examine and inspect the process of production, without access to the actual space. On February 26th the artist will reveal the final installation and the work accomplished in the gallery during the time of her occupancy.