Sophie Jodoin will terrify you…hopefully tonight.

by kit on March 19th, 2009

There’s a new contemporary gallery in town, Battat Contemporary and it’s, in one word, awesome. The guy who runs it has the best taste ever. I went to the very talented painter John Ancheta’s closing there a while back (interview to come) and noticed originals by Betty Goodwin and Thérèse Mastroiacovo hanging out like they were at some after-dinner drink get together. An impressive component of the gallery’s focus is up-and-coming talents. Plus, uh, the cheese plate and wine selection the last time I went was pretty killer. Not in the food poisoning kind-of-a-way, either….

Tonight you should go check it out for yourself. The amazing and terrifying and wondrous and confusing and complicated work of Sopie Jodoin graces its walls with one of the series she’s currently working on, Headgames: hoods, helmets & gasmasks.

It’s really breathtaking, intense work and it’ll be up until the 25th of April. But tonight is the OPENING, my friends, (6pm) which means, well, the work will be there WITH the good cheese and wine I noted above. I can’t guarantee that for any of you for the upcoming days, unless you wanna try some sort of BYOB, which may or may not go over so well.

The gallery address is 7245, rue Alexandra, #100 which is close to Il Motore and the de Castlenau Metro and the Atlas Building. I would suggest perhaps google-mapping it, though. If you don’t make it tonight, check out the Battat website for opening hours so you and your bottle of red in a flask can see her pieces one way or another….