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 Sound Rupture series acknowledges sound as an invisible, ephemeral material only knowable through 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 series of drawings are expressive tracings, imaginings of sounds hovering in a place of just about: to fall apart or to come together. The sounds are held still for a moment where the surface, shape, and texture can be made more palpable. The proposition becomes almost object-like on the page, to be carried away once again.

Exhibition History: 2016 Diaz Contemporary (Toronto), 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)

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

Rupture, 2005/06
ink on paper
30 x 22.4 inches

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sound rupture, 2005

sound rupture #3, 2005

proposition for tracing a sound (bass-baseline), 2006

proposition for tracing a sound (bass-base 2), 2006

proposition for tracing a sound (rupture #3), 2005

proposition for tracing a sound (rupture #5), 2006

proposition for tracing a sound (rupture #6), 2006

proposition for tracing a sound (rupture #7), 2006

proposition for tracing a sound (rupture #8), 2006