voix2018 bfa graduate exhibition highlights: Laura Baril

Referencing herself, as well as images of family members, Laura creates melodramatic narrative portraits which explore the development of identity through memory and the experiences of growing up. Through her paintings, she attempts to reveal and personify the anxieties that come with age, such as loss or trauma. A common theme in Laura’s paintings is the exploration of the body, through its deterioration, its many stages of development, and struggles with body image. She suggests that issues with body image can heighten one’s realization of their temporality.

BFA GRAD SHOW EXHIBITION

On April 25, the 2018 graduates from the University of Ottawa’s Bachelor of Fine Arts program will open a five-day exhibition of their artistic works. VOIX is a student curated and organized exhibition showcasing the work of twenty-eight emerging artists, who will transform the Department of Visual Arts’ building into an exhibition space.

With the theme of VOIX (translated to "voice" from french), each artist is presenting their work illustrating their voice through a visual representation. Each artist’s voice has been developed during the course of the program, and refined over this final year to create the focused works presented this April. Our exhibition will include a variety of mediums including painting, photography, media, drawing, and sculpture.

Join us! Our vernissage takes place Friday, April 27th from 6 to 10 pm with the ceremony beginning at 6:30 pm in room 320 of the Department Visual Arts building: 100 Laurier Ave. E./ 600 Cumberland St.  

Visit our website for more information about our show, artists and events: www.voix2018.com   

Follow us on Instagram: @voix2018

Free admission

WHEN: Exhibition Dates/Hours: Wednesday and Thursday April 25th & 26th 9am - 5pm, Friday April 27th 9am - 4pm, Saturday  and Sunday April 28th &29th 9am - 7pm.
Vernissage: Friday, April 27th, 2018, 6-10 p.m. Room 320 - Catered with cash bar.
WHERE: 100 Laurier Avenue E.,  600 Cumberland entrance, Department of Visual Arts, University of Ottawa
Information: gradshow.heads@gmail.com

The artists :
Roger Armstrong, Laura Baril, Ayesha Chubb, Sarah Clothier, Elaine Diguer, Brianna Fitzgerald, Nada Hachem, Morgan Kelly, Anika Lalonde, Nancy Lam, Mariangels Lombano, Lila Maitre, Kristopher Maxwell, Maria Merheb, Dimple Mistry, Alexander Muise, Melissa Ng, Lucy Oulanova, Angela Richmond, Kelsea Shore, Stephen Shugar, Rim Slaoui, Ginny Stovel, Alynia Symons,Gareth Welsh, Jenna Adams-White, Rae White, Emma Williams.

The Graduating BFA class invites you to their fundraising event, a silent auction. Artworks from BFA and MFA students will be available for bidding, prices will range from $40-$400.

Friday April 6th, 7pm - 10pm
Wallack Galleries
225 Bank Street

MADISON REA, 3rd year BFA, Solo exhibition in Gallery 115, April 3rd - 10th

Vernissage April 6th, 6pm - 9pm
Gallery 115
600 Cumberland st
Visual Arts Department
Ottawa, On

 

First Year MFA Candidate Tiffany April competes in Prof Off 2018

Second Year MFA Candidate Sharon VanStarkenburg competing

PROF OFF HIGHLIGHTS
 

VOIX2018 put on the event PROF OFF Art Battle to raise funds for their grad show in April. The event featured artists: Andrew Wright, Jennifer Macklem, Martin Golland, Zoltan Veevaete, Jessica Hofflick, Tiffany April, Sharon VanStarkenburg and Julia Martin. The artists competed in randomly chosen themed battles with curve ball items the artists had to use in their works. Works made during the event will be included in this year's Silent Auction, put on by VOIX2018 in April.

Jakub Zdebik, Professor of theory and history, curates exhibition Impulsion de Réseau, Galerie R3, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Including Sara Rooney, Studio Professor.
Galerie R3, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
3351, boul. des Forges, Trois-Rivières (QC) G9A 5H7
8 – 27 mars 2018
Vernissage : mardi 13 mars, 17h
Conférence : mardi le 13 mars, 15h30
Heures d'ouvertures : du lundi au vendredi, de 10h à 17h

VOIX, GRADUating class fundraiser: Prof Off, Friday March 23, 600 Cumberland St. Visual Arts Department

Doors will open at 6:30pm, and the first battle will start at 7:15pm, room 320

ARTIST TALK: Risa Horowitz

Friday March 9th, 3pm-4pm
600 Cumberland St
University of Ottawa
Department of Visual Arts
Room 114

Born in Toronto, Risa Horowitz is based in Regina, Saskatchewan where she is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Regina. Her work includes photography, video, painting, drawing, performance, electronics, installation, and writing. Horowitz has received numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and several provincial funding bodies. Her works are in the collections of TD and BMO, the Canada Council Art Bank, and the Saskatchewan Arts Board. In 2014, 20 paintings from the Trees of Canada series were acquired for Canada House in London by Global Affairs Canada.
Horowitz’s practice blurs boundaries between expert-amateur, hobby-work, and leisure-productivity. Much of her work has involved collecting and durational practices that pay attention to time and its presentation.

ARTIST TALK: David McDougall, Sasha Phipps, Digital Processes and Potentials at the University of Ottawa

Tuesday March 6th, 2018
1PM-2:30PM
100 Laurier/600 Cumberland
Room 218

Artists David McDougall and Sasha Phipps are giving a talk on Digital Processes, both McDougall and Phipps work in 3D printing, CNC custom cutting, 3D modeling and kinetic art and will be speaking about the applications of these processes and materials, centering on what can be accomplished within the new CoFab space in the Visual Arts Department of the University of Ottawa.

David McDougall has an MFA from York University and teaches Sculpture at the University of Ottawa.

Sasha Phipps has a BFA from the University of Ottawa and is instrumental in teaching students the use of New Media Technology in his role as technician.

Sarah Clothier & Brianna Fitzgerald, 4th year BFA exhibition in Gallery 115, 600 Cumberland st. Ottawa

FEATURED WORK: EMMA VOGT

SK(IN), Nancy Lam, Ginny Stovel and Alexander Muise, 4th year BFA student exhibition in Gallery 115

Featured work: Karina Kraenzle

CRITQUE HIGHLIGHTS : SARAH CLOTHIER, 4th Year BFA STUDENT, PHOTO AND CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT

CRITIQUE HIGHLIGHTS: BRIANNA FITZGERALD, 4TH YEAR BFA, PHOTO AND CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT

Mirrored glasses that demand the sitter look inward for a predetermined length of time. Video work.

Katherine Wyatt, Figure in a Room I, Oil on canvas

Katherine Wyatt, Figure in a Room I, Oil on canvas

featured work: Katherine Wyatt, 4th year BFA 

Katherine Wyatt's paintings were recently shown in the exhibition Revive at Paradigme Gallery. 

FEATURED WORK: BRIANNA FITZGERALD, 4TH YEAR BFA

TRANSIENT: Highlights

The Department of Visual Arts, in partnership with the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, presents Transient. This contemporary art exhibition will be uniquely located in the Pilot Plant Lab at the University of Ottawa. Transient aims to not only explore, but to engage in a dialogue regarding the complexity and diversity of a future marked by anthropocen-trism. This highly charged term, Anthropocene, describes our current epoch in which the human species has dominated the natural world. By gathering works from eight accomplished contempo-rary artists, Transient explores the complexities of living in the age of the Anthropocene.

Transient will feature works by John Ancheta, Michael Belmore, Carol Howard Donati, David McDougall, Mia Feuer, Sasha Phipps, Uta Riccius, and Anna Williams. 

Transient is a one-night, free public exhibition, opening on Friday, December 1, 2017. The opening reception begins at 5:30pm, and the exhibition concludes at 10:00pm. The Pilot Plant Lab is located in room D415, Colonel By Hall (161 Louis Pasteur) at the University of Ottawa.

Sasha Phipps, La Flotteur, kinetic sculpture

John Ancheta, video work

TRANSIENT: Student-curated exhibition in Colonel By's Pilot Plant Lab

The Department of Visual Arts, in partnership with the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, presents Transient. This contemporary art exhibition will be uniquely located in the Pilot Plant Lab at the University of Ottawa. Transient aims to not only explore, but to engage in a dialogue regarding the complexity and diversity of a future marked by anthropocen-trism. This highly charged term, Anthropocene, describes our current epoch in which the human species has dominated the natural world. By gathering works from eight accomplished contempo-rary artists, Transient explores the complexities of living in the age of the Anthropocene.

Transient will feature works by John Ancheta, Michael Belmore, Carol Howard Donati, David McDougall, Mia Feuer, Sasha Phipps, Uta Riccius, and Anna Williams. 

Transient is a one-night, free public exhibition, opening on Friday, December 1, 2017. The opening reception begins at 5:30pm, and the exhibition concludes at 10:00pm. The Pilot Plant Lab is located in room D415, Colonel By Hall (161 Louis Pasteur) at the University of Ottawa.