Opening Reception Tuesday August 3 @ 5:30pm1891 Granville StreetImmaterial
Zeke MooresArtist in Residence
Visiting artist alumni Zeke Moores offers about his sculpture practice:
Many of the items I choose are over looked, insignificant objects that have been heavily engineered to serve small menial tasks. By taking these objects and recreating them in metal I am making them permanent, transcribing them into the re-proposed artifacts of our mass culture, exploring their social and cultural economies.
Zeke Moores lives and works in Windsor, Ontario. He completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at Windsor University in 2005, where he has been teaching ever since. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and in the United States. He acknowledges support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Artist’s Presentation: Thursday 5 August at 12:00 noon
Opening Reception Tuesday August 3 @ 5:30pmCURIO
Emily Blair Doiron undergraduate exhibitor
Doiron’s jewellery works play with contrasts and space to create a sense of curiosity. With these works, she explores different ways of creating texture with etching, colour with fabric, and visual interest with gemstones hidden in non-traditional places.
Accumulations
Rebecca Kovacs undergraduate exhibitor
Rebecca Kovacs states:
With an interest in perceptions of identity, belonging, and kinship, the works in Accumulations were initially conceived as drawings. They have since evolved beyond the page to seek resonance with the viewer in three-dimensional space and through the use of natural materials. The emphasis lies strongly with process, documenting a way of working as ritual and a way of being as meditation. Rooted firmly in a poetic practice, each piece is a fragile excerpt, with its deterioration witnessing the passage of time, celebrating change, and gently reminding us to slow down, to connect.
Granite PlanetKerri MacLellan undergraduate exhibitor
Granite Planet is a collection of large tactile banners, each depicting a house the artist has lived in. Using childlike drawings and bold colors to romanticize darker issues, each banner refers to a memory or event, specific to that house. Kerri MacLellan writes: “While these banners, initially, may seem explosive with color and happiness, in actuality I would say that they are dripping with sarcasm. Ultimately, creating a two-dimensional piece of textile art not totally different from a painting became one of the most important conversations for me; addressing the ongoing debate of art versus craft, and making an up-to-date attempt at blurring these lines.”
1107 Marginal Road
Opening Reception Tuesday August 10th, 5:30 – 7pmLinked
Lucy Howe Artist in Residence
Visiting Artist Lucy Howe writes:
Linked explores the subtle transformative qualities of chain link fence. This woven material moves from common domestic backyards to the borders of the Gaza Stripe, from friendly and familiar to aggressive statements of control and containment. As a barricade it all at once succeeds through separation of space, and fails as a totally permeable surface. I’m interested in exploring this loaded material and its relationship with space through installation and manipulation. Ultimately shifting and/ or subverting its purpose and function through its own material behaviour.
Lucy Howe received her BFA from NSCAD University in 2003 and an MFA from York University in 2007. Currently, Howe lives and works in Windsor, Ontario at the University of Windsor. Through her work she is interested in exploring and reshaping the objects of her environment by subverting their intentions, denying their formal structures and imposing an emotion or gesture, a state of movement or transformation. Lucy Howe acknowledges support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Artist’s Presentation: Wednesday 11 August at 12:00 noon
Opening Reception Tuesday August 10th, 5:30 – 7pm Collapse
Amanda Schoppel Artist in Residence
Amanda Schoppel states about her work:
For me, making art is an act of hope. Everyday, I try to be a conscious observer of my world, and approach this task with a great amount of curiosity and wonder. I hope that the things I make will be at once familiar and foreign. That through a process of distillation,
the ideas or materials will intrinsically take on a new meaning. A shift in aesthetic value offers a shift in perspective, a slightly askew view that relates to our everyday.
Amanda was born in Barrie, Ontario, Canada and currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. She studied marine biology at Dalhousie University for a year before enrolling at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1995. In 1997, Schoppel participated in an exchange program at the Chelsea College of Art in London, England. She received a BFA from NSCAD in 1998, and an MFA degree at the University of California, Davis in 2006. She has taken part in several exhibitions held throughout Canada, England, and the United States. The National and Provincial Art Collections of Canada have collected numerous works by Schoppel. She acknowledges support from the Ontario Arts Council.
Artist’s Presentation: Wednesday 18 August at 12:00 noon