thumbs point to eyes
SUPPORT

In thumbs point to eyes, a space is set up in order to be occupied. Empty benches face each other ready for conversation. The visual cues of a ritualized space act as a back drop to a location that is ready for spiritual and political take over.

A postcard project printed by EDNA PRESS accompanies the exhibition.

OPENS FRI FEB 28 @ 5-7
SUPPORT
260b Clarence St, LON, ON

Parker Branch acknowledges the support of LAC and OAC.

PLACED HERE BY MEMBERS
YYZ Artist's Outlet

PLACED HERE BY MEMBERS, offers images and objects that are constellated around community organizations, and the trappings of spiritual and physical work, specifically the spaces occupied by such work – meeting houses, lodges, church basements. Simple wooden benches are arranged into groups, evoking impromptu gatherings, friendly societies, trade unions, and upstart religious organizations. Sculptural forms in salt and stone and found objects stand in for altars, but also lecterns. Several denim aprons, some of which are used, worn, and repaired, are used in the exhibition both as sculptural material and displayed artifacts. The word occupation is a useful entry point. Taken temporally, it suggests our labour, how time is spent, what one does. Spatially it implies a strategy of dissent, the forceful take-over of a location. In taking on their subject matter, Madelska and Hallows employ occupation as an artistic strategy. A series of themes are inhabited, like a space, a home, or a host body, and operated within and then manipulated.

A text by Danielle St. Amour accompanies the exhibition.

OPENS FRI JAN 13 @ 6-8
YYZ ARTIST'S OUTLET
401 RICHMOND ST. WEST, TORONTO
SHOW RUNS JAN 14 - MARCH 4
ARTIST TALK FEB 11 @ 3PM

Chronologues
Museum London

This group exhibition examines issues of memory and time, through personal narratives and larger shared histories. For the exhibition, Parker Branch re-stages a version of the work, Blue Raspberry Rock Crystal Candy.

OPENS FRIDAY MAY 13 @ 8pm
MUSEUM LONDON
421 RIDOUT STREET
SHOW RUNS MAY 7 to AUG 31, 2016

HAS THINGS IN COMMON
Book Launch at DNA GALLERY

The Parker Branch exhibition, Has Things In Common coincides with the launch of a 100-page eponymous book with texts by Jen Hutton and E.C. Woodley, published by the McIntosh Gallery Curatorial Studies Centre.

Please join us in celebrating the launch of this publication.

In tandem with this event, Parker Branch will be re-staging the exhibition, No. 21 (OVER) which involves a collection of fresh homemade bread + a 1977 David Merritt sculpture.


DNA GALLERY
123 DUNDAS STREET
LON ON CANADA
THURS MAR 26, 7 - 10 pm

Has Things In Common
DNA GALLERY

Has Things in Common is something of a survey. Objects from past shows have found new affinities amongst the lot. Things are constellated into new clusters. Burden beasts and salted feast. Judy Reeve. Campfire revival. Endless Endless.

Parker Branch, a project by Anna Madelska and Jason Hallows, looks at the meaning-producing properties of things. Over the course of 30 exhibitions, in their small storefront space on Stanley St. in London, Parker Branch has sought to establish a dialogue between artworks, found objects, and natural artifacts.

The exhibition coincides with the launch of a 100-page survey published by the McIntosh Gallery, covering Parker Branch’s first six years, with texts by Jen Hutton and E.C. Woodley.

Parker Branch gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council.

OPENS SAT FEB 28, 2-5
DNA GALLERY
123 DUNDAS STREET
LONDON ON CANADA
open Tues - Sat, 11-5
February 28 - April 11, 2015

caps cups carafe carrots comic cactus cones

OPENS SAT FEB 15, from 6-9pm
PARKER BRANCH
99 1/2 STANLEY STREET
LONDON ON CANADA
Open by appointment.

Witch mask, rifle, pet owner, curtain.

OPENS SAT SEPT 28, from 6-9pm
PARKER BRANCH
99 1/2 STANLEY STREET
LONDON ON CANADA
Open by appointment.

Some holes.

OPENS SAT JUNE 9 , from 2-5pm
PARKER BRANCH
99 1/2 STANLEY STREET
LONDON ON CANADA
Open by appointment.

A guest project by Danielle St. Amour. A box of borrowed houseplants, backlit instructions, and accessories.

OPENS THURS MARCH 28, from 6-9pm
PARKER BRANCH
99 1/2 STANLEY STREET
LONDON ON CANADA
Open by appointment.

Oh tangle of matter and ghost

OPENS Thursday January 24, 6-9 pm
PARKER BRANCH
99 1/2 STANLEY STREET
LONDON ON CANADA
Open by appointment.

Various Santas - deformed, approximate, and illuminated -with work by Amanda Oppedisano.

OPENS Thursday December 20, 6-9 pm
PARKER BRANCH
99 1/2 STANLEY STREET
LONDON ON CANADA
Open by appointment.

A carnival punk, a punching bag, fighting animals, and work by Tyler Clark Burke.

OPENS Friday November 2, 6-9 pm
PARKER BRANCH
99 1/2 STANLEY STREET
LONDON ON CANADA
Open by appointment.

Cut from a saw blade, made from a map, cut from the newspaper, made from a bolt, carved from a hockey stick, carved from a pumpkin.

OPENS THURS OCT19, from 6-9 pm
PARKER BRANCH
99 1/2 STANLEY STREET
LONDON ON CANADA
Open by appointment.

Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy, c 1770, is among the most reproduced paintings, with endless variations and mutations of it circulating in flea markets and thrift stores. Invariably the image is accompanied by Thomas Lawrence’s Pinkie, 1794, an image mistakenly associated with The Blue Boy since the 1920s. In Bonnie Jarvis Goodden’s Blue Boy collection, images of Pinkie are conspicuously absent. For the exhibition of this collection, Parker Branch has found the modest space for its intervention in this omission.

OPENS THURS JUNE 7, from 6-9 pm
PARKER BRANCH
99 1/2 STANLEY STREET
LONDON ON CANADA
Show runs month of June.
Open by appointment.



No. 21: (OVER)
Homemade breads baked by Bonnie Jarvis Goodden, Katrina Farrow Jones, Parker Branch, Jamie Q, and Jessie Roder. With a 1977 sculpture by David Merritt.

OPENS THURS MAY 3 from 6-9pm.
PARKER BRANCH
99 1/2 Stanley Street
London ON CANADA
Show runs month of May.
Open by appointment.



No. 20: Something Has To Change For Everything To Stay As It Is. Something Had To Change For Everything To Stay As It Was.

Parker Branch presents a guest project by Maryse Larivière.

Margaret Trudeau: There is something very girlish in that, a sort of a pillow fight. I'm thinking of people's bedrooms, well it's usually Passion over Reason. Wielands's quilt has affected my actions while my emotions activated the piece.
Maryse Larivière: You were yearning for Pierre to relate to you emotionally, instead of simply engaging in an intellectual, conversational debate.
Margaret Trudeau: Hum hum
Maryse: So the quilt came in to talk to you, with you, in expressing that need, as with transitional objects?
Margaret Trudeau: I was possessed by guilt.
Maryse: That's a good answer!


OPENS THURS APRIL 19 from 6-9pm.
Performance nreaso rove aisospn at 7pm (Performers Alex Simpson & Ethan D.W. Lester)
PARKER BRANCH
99 1/2 Stanley Street
London ON CANADA
Show runs month of April.
Open by appointment.

Parker Branch is an independent micro-museum focusing on collections, artifacts, and ephemera brought together through associative logic and incidental attractions. Co-directors: Anna Madelska & Jason Hallows