Spencer Gallery

Spencer Gallery in The D. B. Weldon Library

may 5 to june 30, 2012

michael-john idzerda

Encountering Weldon

Artist Statement

My responsibility as a visual artist is to relate my experiences with a space to the viewer. By isolating parts of the whole, I expose the fabric of the space. Weldon is rich in fabric and texture, and encountering it over the past 11 months, from top-floor to sub-basement has been a remarkahle experience.

This series is an exploration into that which makes Weldon special, an ark of thought and its many forms. The subject matter was chosen in a conscious manner while walking around and allowing the details to make themselves known. There is a point of connection, a moment when the eye meets a circumstance of lines, light, perspectives and surfaces that contains a richness of form. That is when the moment becomes an exposure.

About the Artist

Michael-John Idzerda was raised in Toronto and Alliston, Ontario and began documenting the world around him in the early 1980s. In 1993 he graduated from The Ontario College of Art's New Media Program, having studied the art of photography and architecture, creating electronic music and videos. Professionally he has worked as an office-manager, architectural archivist, architectural historian, landscape designer, pipe-organ technician and piano tuner while continuously pursuing his passion for photography. Currently he manages Forest City Image Centre at Western University, teaches photography for the City of London's Spectrum Courses and is an advocate for film-based 'toy camera' photography. MJ is an electronic keyboardist, having played numerous sessions with Eric Stach and the Republic of Free Series in London.

Exhibition History

2012

Encountering Weldon, Solo Exhibition at The D. B. Weldon Library, Spencer Gallery, Western University, London, Ontario

Show Us Your Best, Forest City Image Centre group show, The Arts Project, London, Ontario

2011

Recent Work, Solo Exhibition at The D. B. Weldon Library, Spencer Gallery, Western University, London, Ontario

Chill, Wortley Village, London, Ontario

Looking Around, Solo Exhibition, London Public Library, Byron Branch, London, Ontario

2010

Feature photography in Beat Magazine's 'Final Frame'

Commercial / Lecture

First Church of Christ Scientist, London, Ontario - Pre-demolition Photographs

London walk for Juvenile Arthritis, 2011 - Event coverage

The Elmwood Lawn Bowl Club's 100th Anniversary, 2011 - Event coverage

Lecture on Photography for the Lambeth Art Association

For more information:

EMAIL: mjicamera@gmail.com

WEB: mjidzerda.dphoto.com

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