Opening this Thursday: 'Workspace' at Living Arts Centre, Mississauga

I hope you can join me at the reception this Thursday (January 29) 7 to 9pm for 'Workspace' an exhibition about the mental and psychological spaces of work, featuring Tonia Di Risio and Jenna Faye Powell along with yours truly. It all takes place at the gallery in the Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga. The show runs through March 1, 2015.

I first started working from home back in 1984 (that fabled year), when it was uncommon to say the least, or at least not very accepted. Since then I have spent most of my life working from home with a couple of interruptions, and of course now my classroom time while actually teaching. 

Those many years of experience have made me intimately familiar with the advantages and pitfalls of life as a home-worker: 

• on the one hand your schedule is your own to set, on the other that commonly means you never really stop working 
  
• while it's definitely comfortable working from home, not being compelled to leave the house regularly can make it surprisingly difficult to do so, even often enough to stay healthy!

This show features 'Dream Houses' a photo-digital triptych first developed some time ago, but only in virtual form. I have made some adjustments so it can make both its physical and exhibition debut in 'Workspace'. 

There will also be work I showed at the Burlington Art Centre (now Art Gallery of Burlington) in 2012, and the Offence/Defence show in 2013 at the Milton Centre for the Arts, brought together for the first time.

Hope you can make it this Thursday! Also, the show at You Me Gallery in Hamilton continues through February 9, 2015.

Dream House 1, 2 & 3 by Kim Lee Kho make their debut in the 'Workspace' exhibition at the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga, opening Thurs January 29, 2015.