Dubious Cosmology - MFA Thesis Exhibition

If you are in Toronto this month, please come check out my thesis exhibition at Gallery 1313! It is the culmination of my time at York University as an MFA student in Visual Art.

Ella Morton: Dubious Cosmology – York University MFA Thesis Exhibition

Gallery 1313
Opening reception: Thursday, April 16th, 2015. 6:30-10:00pm
Exhibition runs April 15-26, 2015

1313 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON, M6K 1L6
Gallery hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 1:00pm – 6:00pm

Dubious Cosmology is a proposition that the world is overflowing with mystery. It is a series of photographs and sculptures that celebrate the uncanny and the sublime. It is a collection of bizarre renditions of other universes. It is an exploration of fringe beliefs and why they are important. It is an inquiry into photography, the land and sky, UFOs and science fiction. It is a quest to show that there is a relationship between landscape and mystery, and why that relationship is of value to us. If we look at our surroundings – our landscapes – closely, it becomes undeniable that everything is extraordinary, inexplicable, wonderful, and that there is so much more to be uncovered.

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Planets!

I finally made proper documentation of all my planet sculptures.

New Cyanotypes

Sorry I haven't made a post in a while. I've been very busy working towards the completion of my MFA. Here are a couple cyanotypes I have recently made of landscapes in New Mexico.

Tintype Cluster

Cyanotypes

I am making cyanotypes of my New Mexico images.

Recent Globe Pictures

Stalactite Power Line Sun


Broken Seed Vault Nuclear Winter Planet

as (it) is Exhibition Shots

Some (overdue) shots of the York MFA show at Gales Gallery and my work in it.


The Opening


My installation in the corner.


UFO and Cloud Tintypes


Neon Alien Slime Mountain Planet Globe Sculpture

as (it) is

Come check out as (it) is, our MFA beginning-of-year exhibition!



Visual Arts MFA/PhD Exhibition
September 3 - 12, 2014

Closing Reception: Wednesday September 10, 4:00 - 7:00 pm
with performance by Anna Sarchami at 5 pm in the Gales Gallery.

Gales Gallery, 105 Accolade West Building, and Special Projects Gallery,
Joan & Martin Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts, York University.

Gallery Hours: Monday to Wednesday 10:30 am - 4:00 pm

More info here:
http://www.akimbo.ca/73287

Finally Getting Satisfactory Tintype Results

Globe!

Studio Death Star

New Studio Space!

I'm very excited to have moved into my new studio space at York today.

Planets

I am making a series of sculptural works that will go with my photographs. They are repurposed globes made to look like sci-fi planets. This is the trial one. More to come.

Studio!

Dundarave Sky Panoramas

More sky panoramas from when I was in Vancouver in February. I like this series, but I feel like there's still something missing...

New Collages

Internet-sourced UFO imagery with collaged postcards. Not sure if it's what I want yet. Thinking about other ways I could work with it.

UFO Postcard Collage Progress

Pixilated UFO images found online with postcard imagery.

A Strange Occurrence in the Forest

More Sightings 2 images. Experimenting with the idea of surveillance of a certain place, which has different people visiting it for some mysterious reason, all staring menacingly at the sky.