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EXHIBITION in gallery 115: tipping pedestals, Ashley Guenette & Emily Neufeld, Opening Thursday January 10th, 6-9

Thursday January 10th
Gallery 115
600 Cumberland st
Department of Visual Arts

Gallery 115 is pleased to present the exhibition of fourth year BFA students Ashley Guenette and Emily Neufeld, Tipping Pedestals.

In TIPPING PEDESTALS, widely accepted tenets of art are challenged through different mediums. 

Ashley Guenette’s works target traditions of canvas painting, both in their process and presentation. Scrap fabrics sewn together create an uneven surface, a nightmare which most painters aim to avoid. The sculptural pieces, making use of very little actual paint, defy the intended use of the stretchers they are stapled to. 

Emily Neufeld’s installation of cut-outs expands the gallery space within and without, forcing viewers to explore their surroundings rather than being told where to look. The gallery loses its authority as a stage for art, and becomes an unwitting home to an infestation of childlike doodles.

FEATURED 4TH YEAR WORK: SARAH HODGSON

Fragmented pearls, playing cards, necklaces and other familial heirlooms populate Sarah Hodgson’s work, Familial Memento. This video installation work examines the relationship between painting and digital media. Sarah mimics the size of history painting, the abstract and gestural qualities of abstract expressionism, and the subject matter of the vanitas. Sarah utilizes photogrammetry processing, a method for creating 3D digitizations of objects, to explore the digital preservation and transience of family heirlooms, creating a vanitas suitable the 21st century.

FEATURED 4TH YEAR WORK: ATTICUS GORDON

Atticus Gordon’s work draws from the language of painting, sculpture and installation. This work, “assembly line for the production of fruit,” plays with the idea of systems and imaginative worlds. Atticus in interested in creating an over lying logic, or absurd logic, through the representation of repeating narratives of work, fruit, advertisement, and architecture that contribute to an imagined world.

FEATURED 4th YEAR WORK: Emilie Marcotte

Emilie Marcotte’s multimedia works of textiles, prose, photography and botany evokes craft, oral tradition, inheritance and familial connection through markers of rituals of making, repair, propagation and care.

Voix 2018 Exhibition Highlights: Nancy Lam

Nancy Lam's paintings exploring the racial fetish gaze will also be featured in this year's Fresh Paint: New Construction exhibition at Montreal's Art Mûr Gallery.
Nancy's paintings considers the cultural and social representations of East-Asia in conjunction with the perceived differences within the contexts of both Eastern and Western culture. Her work often explores the intricacies of identity and relationships, along with how East-Asian women are depicted within society and media. Nancy re appropriates images from various sources in order to create a new, often ambiguous narrative.

2018 Voix Exhibition Highlights: Alexander Muise

In his work, Alexander explores both personal and larger narratives of masculinity through representations of the male body. He focuses on concepts of love, loss, friendship, relationships, idealism, affect and affective response, and the ways in which identity is shaped and informed by them. By representing the body often in a form of self-portraiture or projection onto images of the male form, he examines the ways male identity is connected to affectivity and personal experience and how that can be read through the lens of contemporary art practice.

VOIX 2018 Exhibition HIGHLIGHTS: Emma Williams

Emma Williams took home the Dean's award for her exhibition works, one of which will be included in Dean Kevin Kee's collection at the Faculty of Arts.
Emma's work is focused on exploring and engaging with found images to evoke and obscure their representation. Emma expresses the emotion of an image she feels upon her first encounter with it in order to create a strange narrative or representation of the subject. Emma's representation of the subject questions their identity and temporality, while the setting creates a dream like landscape, a psychological space or a recalled memory.

voix 2018 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.

Laura Baril will be showing her work in the 2018 Fresh Paint: New Construction exhibition at Montreal's Art Mûr gallery

Voix 2018 Exhibition Highlights: Stephen Shugar

Stephen examines an undeveloped language in painting in his work, attempting to create a narrative of paintings over time which develop through recognizable shapes and patterns. At first glance, what appears to be a hasty approach to painting has a meticulous consistency. By painting recognizable objects, Stephen wants to familiarize the eye, accustoming it to images which appear in and out of focus in the more expressionist paintings.

VOIX 2018 Exhibition Highlights: Melissa Ng

Melissa specializes in drawing and painting and is interested in recreating and merging landscapes from her experiences and memories. With a Chinese background and having grown up on the island of Mauritius. Melissa explores the themes of migration, the passage of time and memories by combining different elements of painting and drawing in a single space. Her work is evocative of a place or time that looks familiar and imaginary at the same time.
Melissa's work in the Voix 2018 Exhibition was comprised of her painting, a projected animation of ink drawing, and her own musical composition.

Voix 2018 exhibition highlights: Brianna Fitzgerald

At the root of Brianna's practice is a struggle with accepting loss, misguided notions of permanence, and a profound longing for that which cannot ever be had or replaced. Through video and photography, Brianna records repetitive performative actions which she undertakes primarily with two sets of items that have been in her family for most of her life: a 35-year-old spool of string, and a collection of over 500 matchboxes. Rooted in feelings of nostalgia, Brianna's practice focuses on everyday objects and events to explore the greater emotional weight that these objects carry.

Voix 2018 exhibition highlights: Sarah Clothier

Sarah Clothier's durational large format self-portraits took a prize in photography during the Voix 2018 BFA Graduate Exhibition.

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.