Elizabeth Zvonar: Cracks in the Clockwork

Cracks in the Clockwork presents Vancouver-based artist Elizabeth Zvonar’s sculptural and collage works alongside artworks and furniture from Art Windsor-Essex’s collection.

Zvonar’s collages, which layer images from fine art catalogues, fashion magazines, and other popular print materials, create new meanings through playful juxtaposition. These works form unexpected relationships between familiar things, and fracture relationships between things that once seemed natural or inevitable. Zvonar’s sculptures often show everyday objects—purses, receipts, shoes, gloves—recast with precious materials. Uniting all Zvonar’s work is a sense of exploration and imagination, curiosity and play.

Cracks in the Clockwork refers to how the interior cogs of a clock might break down in keeping proper time. It could also refer to a failure of some thing or event to operate with mechanical regularity. With associative wit and contrast, this exhibition upends received ideas of art history, showing the cracks in the narratives and collections we’ve inherited.