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Collage
Blass relies on the process of collage in her works, focusing on materials that have a relationship either formally or conceptually to bring new meaning out of the objects through their correlation.

Doubling
Doubling in Blass’ practice diverts the viewer’s attention from the object as it is to the relationships it has with a similar object. Blass distorts the second sculpture using a myriad of approaches; One of the approaches that is used in Blass’s doubling is using the same texture for two sculptures and creating a figurative and abstract relationship.

“The double turns up repeatedly in my work: the idea of two things with the same shape and the same motif and then a different shape with the same motif. My motivation is about wanting to use material over which I don’t have too much control, but material that will give me some object and some shape”

Continuation of Discontinuity
Blass’s practice challenges the idea of a complete “form.” She approaches to the challenge through purposely deconstruct, then reconstruct and reconfigure in an unexpected way. She states that she does not think in advance and is open to contingency that occurs during the process.

Solo exhibitions
2019


 * Le parlement des invisibles, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada


 * The Mime, the Model and the Dupe, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2015


 * To only ever say one thing forever the same thing, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver


 * My Life, Artspeak, Vancouver; Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2014


 * Théâtre d’objets, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada

2013


 * Parisian Laundry Projects ,The Hole NYC, New York, USA

Galeri Manâ, Istanbul, Turkey

Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada


 * The manipulator manipulated

La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Canada

2012


 * Blass' work was presented in a major solo exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal alongside accompanying solo exhibitions featuring works by Ghada Amer and Wangechi Mutu.

2011


 * PETIT LOSANGE LAQUÉ VEINÉ, Parisian Laundry in Montreal

2009


 * Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto in 2009.