Jonathan Hobin is a Canadian photo-based artist. Born in Ottawa , Hobin's often shocking and meticulously curated photos deal with "the darker aspects of childhood, storytelling and politics." Hobin's work has received attention on an international stage, in particular his "In the Playroom" series and his work has achieved notoriety with audiences in Canada, the United States, Norway, Finland, Germany, and has been the subject of national and international debate with an audience of art critics, political movements, and the general public. The artist has recently been appointed as the Executive and Creative Director at the School of the Photographic Arts Ottawa . He is a part of collections owned by the Canada Council for the Arts , The Finnish Museum of Photography , the City of Ottawa , as well as having privately owned pieces in corporate and private collections all over the world.
22-456: Playroom , Play Room or The Playroom may refer to: Rooms [ edit ] Recreation room or play room Nursery (room) or play room Daycare room Arts, entertainment, media [ edit ] The Play Room (novel), a 1969 novel by Olivia Manning Mattel Playroom , a toy, games, and, play, resource website from Mattel Music [ edit ] Play Room (album),
44-408: A living room , enabling the area to serve multiple purposes and entertain moderately large groups. Recreation rooms can have many themes and contents, depending on their intended use. Recreation rooms are normally centered on some form of entertainment, typically an audio/video setup. This can consist of something as elaborate as a projection screen with surround sound or something as simple as
66-608: A rec room , rumpus room , play room , playroom , games room , or ruckus room ) is a room used for a variety of purposes, such as parties , games and other everyday or casual activities. The term recreation room is most prevalent in the United States, while rumpus room is more common in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. In the United Kingdom, the most common term is games room , or sometimes den . Some, however, will have
88-407: A 2006 Steve LaSpina album from SteepleChase Records Playroom (radio series), a live performance program on WXTF-LP Film [ edit ] Playroom (film) , a 1989 film directed by Manny Coto The Playroom (film) , a 2012 film directed by Julia Dyer Television [ edit ] Playroom (TV series) , an American children's television series Play Room (TV channel),
110-401: A 2013 augmented reality video game by Sony PlayRoom, a stage in the 2005 videogame EyeToy: Play 3 Places [ edit ] Play-Room, Walthamstow Hall , Sevenoaks, Kent, England, UK; a facility at Walthamstow Hall school Playroom School, Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA; a children's school established by The Second City improv Seomra Spraoi (Irish: Play Room ),
132-483: A South African station; see List of South African mass media Play Room (TV program), a Japanese TV show on Fuji TV hosted by Elli Rose 'The Playroom' (TV segment), a segment on the U.S. TV show Gabby's Dollhouse "The Playroom" ( Playhouse 90 ) , a 1957 U.S. TV episode, a TV play on Playhouse 90 Video games [ edit ] The Playroom (1989 video game) , a 1989 educational video game by Brøderbund Software The Playroom (2013 video game) ,
154-1091: A base model television . Couches, pub tables/chairs, bar stools , bean bag chairs , and recliners may all be used in recreation rooms. Tabletop games are frequent in recreation rooms. In addition to games played on a normal table, recreation rooms sometimes include custom game tables for table tennis (ping pong), table football ( foosball ), table shuffleboard , air hockey , or billiards (pool). Custom tables for casino games such as poker , blackjack , and craps are also common. Other games include dart boards and arcade games such as pinball and video games. More substantial game rooms may have mini bowling lanes , indoor golf simulators , and other specialty amenities. Refrigerators , microwave ovens , wet bars , popcorn makers , ice cream makers , and soda fountains can sometimes be found in recreation rooms. Jonathan Hobin Great Great Grandson of Politician William Wallace Cory , Great Grandson of Hockey Hall of Famer Horace Merrill , and son of
176-605: A photographic series by Jonathan Hobin Live at the Playroom (disambiguation) My Play Room School, Accra, Ghana; see List of Nursing Training Colleges in Ghana Kinderzimmer Productions (German: play-room ), a German band Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Playroom . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
198-404: A room specific to one particular game or entertainment unit often found in a recreation room, or some have a snug , which is a smaller cosy room for watching films and playing video games . Often children and teenagers entertain their friends in their home's recreation room, which is often located in the basement , away from the main living areas of the house . Usually it is a larger space than
220-598: A social centre in Dublin Other uses [ edit ] Playrooms, the student year groups at Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall , a Jesuit school in ancashire, England, UK Playroom Event, a Norwegian subsidiary of Fremantle (company) See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "playroom" , "play room" , "playrooms" , or "play rooms" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles containing play room All pages with titles containing playroom In The Playroom (photography),
242-441: A white male". However, as with most balanced criticism of Hobin's work, the author concedes that while the work provides no comfort, it leads to interesting and necessary questions regarding race. The consensus, even among the most venomous critics, seems to be that the series merits consideration. Hobin has been transparent about the fact that he would prefer strong reactions, even negative, over indifference and told Global News of
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#1732868643895264-487: The Dale Smith gallery (now closed) was first conceived of by the artist while at Ryerson and prefaced the haunting exploration of the darker side of nursery rhymes, in which Hobin explored what curator Johanna Mizgala describes as "fables and other cautionary tales that are told to children as a means of socialization and initiation into the conventions of acceptable, moral behaviour." Hobin's work has consistently confronted
286-495: The Cry Babies series, "if I'm going in that polarized direction, I'm really hitting the mark." In a 2012 interview, CBC's q radio host Jian Ghomeshi described Hobin as "one of Canada's most polarizing visual artists." In her criticisms of the series, Canadian Art reporter Emily Falvey damned the series stating "although In the Playroom (2010) often succeeded in outraging the conservative audience it seemed destined to annoy, in
308-496: The end of their lives were described in Ottawa Magazine during their showing at Ottawa City Hall as "one of the best shows by a local artist to hit this city in the past year." Art critic Paul Gessell goes on to compare Hobin to sculptural phenom Ron Mueck describing the portraits as "what Mueck would deliver if he decided to start photographing real people instead of creating them in his studio." Gessell denounced criticism of
330-430: The final analysis it was no more disturbing than video games or Anne Geddes posters, and not as nuanced as other photographic projects tackling similar issues" Others deem the work a necessarily stark depiction of tragedies deserving of shock. In a 2010 interview, Vice Magazine quipped that "[s]ince "In the Playroom" is making a bunch of whiny babies upset" he connected with Hobin to discuss "the criticism he's received,
352-602: The fore tragedies like Lady Di's death , the 2004 tsunami , the murder of JonBenet Ramsey and the 9/11 terrorist attacks . In her 2014 essay, Lisa Farley Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at York University , describes the series as ushering in "the surprising return of what is both familiar and difficult to face within the self." In a CNN interview on Hobin's work, Dr. Alvin Poussaint , professor of psychiatry and author at Harvard Medical University, advised that despite
374-491: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Playroom&oldid=1255221613 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Irish-language text Articles containing German-language text Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Recreation room A recreation room (also known as
396-453: The macabre of nursery rhymes to even more socio-politically charged topics. The artist photographed "a combination of professional child models who worked for free (to gain experience) or ... children of family friends." As stated in the 2010 Macleans review, "[h]is topics are historic moments—mostly tragedies—immortalized and saturated by media coverage. Goodbye Mother Goose." The carefully crafted settings are populated by children who force to
418-400: The perceived potential for trauma, the children involved seemed to treat the event like "halloween" or "playing make believe" and that children have "seen images of violence on the front page of the newspaper..so it's not like this is a first time for them." "Reflecting on the death of a husband and wife through the use of a lullaby" these larger than life portraits of Hobin's grandparents at
440-598: The prolific architect Barry J. Hobin, the artist's early career was in production design. Hobin was the Canadian production Designer for the first Slovenian/Canadian film coproduction created in 2010 titled The Maiden Danced to Death , a collaboration with Academy Award-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond . Hobin completed a BFA in Image Arts from Ryerson University in Toronto in 2003. His 2009 Mother Goose exhibit shown at
462-411: The taboo the artist described as his "'love-hate relationship' with his childhood." Hobin states that the series underlines the contrast between nursery rhymes' content which typically illustrates a "societal ill that has no obvious relationship to the starry-eyed innocence we often associate with childhood" In 2010, the artist returned to the provocatively staged images of child models but turned from
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#1732868643895484-461: The work as voyeuristic and characterized it unequivocally as "a work of love." Hobin's "Cry Babies" series continued to tackle issues of social tragedy, but with a heightened focus on "social stigmas and racial stereotypes" which Canadian Art magazine deemed "content worthy of comment" while still remaining critical that the artist had not "fully considered the question of racial caricature, and particularly how it relates to his own social status as
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