08/27/2026
Jeffrey Halstead’s solo exhibition TRAMPOLINE TRAMPOLEEN TRAMPOLIN continues at the gallery through September 12.
🕒 Gallery hours: Thu–Sat, 1–4 pm
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The exhibition title begins with an object associated with recoil. A trampoline absorbs force and returns it, sending the body upward only for it to fall and rebound again. In TRAMPOLINE TRAMPOLEEN TRAMPOLIN, the word undergoes a similar movement, appearing correctly, phonetically, and incompletely. Its alternate spellings resemble the variations and errors embedded in online search terms and digital metadata.
Moving between play and system, the exhibition considers both the physical instability of bouncing and the repetitive structures through which images are found, categorized, and returned to us. Familiar cartoon figures, architectural interiors, digital fragments, grids, and printing artifacts appear in states of collision and partial recognition. Across aluminum panels, works on artboard, and screenprints, bodies are stretched, layered, interrupted, or reduced to recognizable features: eyes, ears, bows, gloves, and silhouettes.
Jeffrey Halstead Art Dealers Association of Canada