Marla Hlady is an artist working with drawing, objects, kinetics and sites most often thinking through sound. She is based in Tkaronto, Canada and is represented by Christie Contemporary.

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The proposition for tracing a sound (Iceland) series explores sound as is an invisible, ephemeral material, only knowable as a discrete event when it is no longer audible. In spite of its elusiveness, sound can be carried away, held as a shape in the mind. This is a series of propositions for tracing expressively, sounds of and in the Icelandic landscape. They imagine sounds spewed, floating heavily, drifting over top of one another, washing away, hovering but ultimately, sounds held still for a moment.

Exhibition History: 2012 The Québec City Biennial (Canada), 2011 Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, 2008 Museum London (Canada), 2007 Art Gallery of Windsor (Windsor, Canada), 2007 The Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery (Concordia University, Montreal), 2006 Galerie Rene Blouin (Montreal, Canada)

Publication: Migone, Christof. “On Off.” Start, Stop. Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, 2008, pp. 40-43+.

Press: Thorpe, Josh. “Sound Offerings, The Art of Marla Hlady.” Border Crossings, vol. 26, no. 1, 2007, pp. 38-44.

proposition for tracing a sound (Iceland), 2005/10
ink and graphite on paper
30 x 22.4 inches

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proposition for tracing a sound – proximity #2, 2010

proposition for tracing a sound – cloud, 2005

proposition for tracing a sound – cloud #5, 2005

proposition for tracing a sound – cloud #6, 2005

proposition for tracing a sound – cloud #7, 2005

proposition for tracing a sound – drifting, 2005

proposition for tracing a sound – drifting #2, 2005