The Akin Vitrine Gallery is excited to present our current exhibition, running for the month of January by Rebecca Jane Houston, a multi-disciplinary artist who works out of Akin Lansdowne.

Rebecca's recent work has been with clay, making plaster casts of “Kee Klamps" and pipe in various clay bodies. This meditation on the form of temporary infrastructure is still in its experimental phase and is shown here in the Akin Vitrine as a work in progress. Rebecca often works for a long time with a particular material or form, and allowing repetition of a joint or object create its own abstract narrative. Sometimes, the process leads towards finished pieces if that seems appropriate, but not always. January’s Vitrine installation will likely shift as different pieces will be experimented with, rejected, altered.

Rebecca has worked in the community arts for many years, sits on the board of Mercer Union and is the proprietor and curator of The Northern Beaver Gallery, a vending machine art project.

The Akin Vitrine Gallery is located at the Clock Factory Building at 1485 Dupont Street (entrance on Campbell Avenue). Find Akin Studio 215 on the second floor and follow the sign into the hallway around the corner. This miniature gallery will feature the diverse talent of Akin Collective studio members with a new installation each month.

The building is open from 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, or to arrange a viewing outside of those hours please contact the artist: rebeccajanehouston@gmail.com.

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