Little Worlds

As contemporary art has an intimate relationship with the products of mass and popular culture, Little Worlds is a survey of how contemporary artists use scale models, toys, photography and found materials to create or depict miniature environments. The artworks play with scale and render it uncertain. They are not simply discrete, tiny objects. All are autonomous worlds, with their own inherent logic and order.

These works explore diverse subjects, but all are fundamentally a reassessment of the terms of representation. Disrupting figure and ground, time and space, little worlds explore the borders between perception and imagination. Little Worlds is not simply about miniaturization—it’s about the reorganization of scale in our constructed world as a means to travel in and out of its confines.

Curator Anthony Kiendl

Organized and toured by Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library

September 5 to October 25, 1998

Exhibiting artists: Kim Adams, Steven Brower, Doug Buis, Bill Burns, Gregory Crewdson, David Hoffos, Alison Norlen, Edward Poitras, Dawna Rose, Lyla Rye, and Laurie Simmons.