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Fabrique en Canada: Heyd Fontenot and Patrick DeCoste at Pouch Cove Gallery, Newfoundland.

Publication: C: International Contemporary Art
Publication Date: 22-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Fabrique en Canada: Heyd Fontenot and Patrick DeCoste at Pouch Cove Gallery, Newfoundland.(Views)

Article Excerpt
For awhile, the shed was going to be part of the show. Then, the shed was going to be the show. The shed was an 8 x 12 green-shingled thing behind the small green-shingled house where we were staying. Since there was nowhere to sit in the house (the living room was being used as a bedroom), the shed was mostly where we hung out during a highly un-institutional art residency at James Baird's Pouch Cove Foundation in Newfoundland.

The "us" at that time included Toronto painter Patrick DeCoste, Austin-based painter Heyd Fontenot, New York artist Erin Carney and Pat Alexander from Baltimore. Aleks Rdest was also around. She'd come out to Pouch Cove from Toronto for two months over a year ago, and never left. The studio building, a disused Anglican school, was only half-functional, since the electrical main had been red-tagged in August by the Pouch Cove Town Board after a complex dispute between Baird and the Town. There was no heat and no light, which was okay some of...

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