Mar 18 – Apr 17
Susan Dobson

Opening Reception Mar 18, 6-8 pm




Susan Dobson, Installation View from The Winter Series, 2001-2

"Suburban streets are complex and subtle signifiers, offering, for those who can read the signs, delicate statements of style and status." 1

Suburbia, often characterized as a project of enforced social homogeneity, is in fact occupied, colonized and transformed by its inhabitants. Subtle variations in the doorways depicted in No Fixed Address (2003) assume monumental significance against a backdrop of uniformity. This comforting background is both celebrated and challenged in its residents’ push-pull relationship between a reassuring sameness and a need to claim and demarcate one’s own space.

—Cynthia Foo

Susan Dobson is an artist and art educator with an interest in urban development and suburban culture. Her most recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at the Tatar Gallery in Toronto, and at Centennial Gallery in Oakville. Dobson currently holds the position of assistant professor in The School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph, and her work is represented by the Tatar Gallery in Toronto.

1 - Silverstone, Roger. "Introduction", Visions of Suburbia, New York & London: Routledge, 1997, 7.