<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0000"><img height="133" width="216" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" id="e6d50e3d-81cd-4717-96a4-8f89254c0023" src="cid:388C9669-AD0A-4BB0-B8D7-BECB0E766A6E@uwaterloo.ca"><br></font><br>University of Waterloo Fine Arts Presents</strong></span><br><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><b>MFA </b></font></span><div><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="5"><b>THESIS 1</b></font></span><br><br><strong style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">April 10</font></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">–26</font></strong></span><strong style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">, 2014</font></strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Opening Reception: Thursday, April 10 from 5:00–8:00 pm</font></strong><br><br><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Gallery One</font></strong></span></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Amanda Rhodenizer</span></strong><br></font><strong style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Turf & Twig</font></strong><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">In <i>Turf & Twig</i> solitary figures are depicted at the boundaries of salable land, performing surreal and fruitless tasks. The objects they interact with recall a manufactured domesticity, displaced and almost obsolete within the outdoors. The inadequacy of these interactions is emphasized by the immensity of the wilderness behind them. Inspired by the historic “Turf & Twig ceremony”, which has its roots in the colonial, English expansion into North America, the symbolic actions depicted in these large-scale oil paintings suggest failed versions of settlement. Source images for the landscapes are retrieved from Canadian real estate websites, which advertise ‘empty lots for sale’. These open-ended narratives act as imagined histories on lots of land charged with unresolved links to the past</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">.</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><br></span><div>Amanda Rhodenizer received her BFA from NSCAD University and is currently completing her MFA at the University of Waterloo. She was the Nova Scotia recipient of the Bank of Montreal 1st Invitational Art Competition in 2006, and has recently been awarded a Curtlands Foundation Bursary. As a recipient of the Keith and Winifred Shantz Internship Award in 2013 she assisted the painter Caroline Walker in London, UK. She has exhibited nationally and her work can be found in a number of private international collections. She is currently based in Kitchener, ON. www.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://arhodenizer.com">arhodenizer.com</a></span><br><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><strong><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Gallery Two</font></strong></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Megan Green</span></strong><br></font><strong style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">The Jackalope in the Room</font></strong><em style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><br><br></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">The Jackalope in the Room</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">is an installation of sculptural and found objects that have been altered or contextualized in a way that conflates strangeness with normality. Many of the items in the installation were given as gifts or found in thrift stores, and have been modified to communicate a broader cultural or psychological meaning. Often this meaning is related to personal anecdotes and stereotypes attached to the objects that, in turn, seek to complicate popular narratives and cultural myths—many of which relate back <span>to my</span> experiences in northern Alberta. <span>Northern Alberta is a liminal, near-mythical place where our ideas about remote environments collide with mass industrialization.</span> These shibboleths have a pervasive quality that allows <span>me</span> to construct an uncanny web of associations using <span>often banal</span> source materials.</span></span><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Megan Green is currently working toward an MFA at the University of Waterloo. She received a BFA from the University of Alberta in 2011. She was born in St. Johns, Newfoundland and grew up in Northern Alberta. While living in Fort McMurray she attended Keyano College and received a Visual Art and Design Diploma in 2009. In 2013 Megan completed a Keith and Win Shantz Internship where she was a studio assistant for multidisciplinary artist and taxidermist Claire Morgan in London, UK</span>. <a href="http://megananastasiagreen.com">http://megananastasiagreen.com</a> </span><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10pt; "><b>Please join us in celebrating both thesis exhibitions by these promising emerging artists.</b></span></span><b><br></b><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><b>Both exhibitions are free and open to the public.</b><br><br><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><strong>UWAG</strong></span></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">University of Waterloo Art Gallery, East Campus Hall 1239</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Fine Arts Office: 519.888.4567 ext. 36923 <a href="http://www.finearts.uwaterloo.ca/" target="_blank">finearts.uwaterloo.ca</a></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Gallery: 519.888.4567 ext. 33575 <a href="http://www.uwag.uwaterloo.ca/" target="_blank">uwag.uwaterloo.ca</a><br><br><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><strong>Hours</strong></span></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Tuesday to Saturday</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">12:00-5:00 pm</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Or by appointment<br><br><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><strong>Contact</strong></span></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Ivan Jurakic, Director / Curator</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">519.888.4567 ext. 36741</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><a href="mailto:ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca</a><br><br><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><strong>Driving</strong></span></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">263 Phillip Street, Waterloo, ON</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Located in East Campus Hall on Phillip Street off University Avenue West, behind University Plaza</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Use South entrance to ECH across from Engineering 6<br><br><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><strong>Parking</strong></span></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Limited meter parking is available behind ECH</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Visitor Parking is available in Lot E6, E5 or Lot B after 3:45 pm</span><br><a href="http://www.uwaterloo.ca/map/index.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">http://www.uwaterloo.ca/map/index.php</span></a><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; "><br><br><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><strong>Mailing</strong></span></span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">UW Fine Arts | University of Waterloo Art Gallery</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">200 University Avenue West</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1</span><br><br><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2">Images (left to right): Amanda Rhodenizer, <i>Signalman</i>, 2013, oil and acrylic on canvas. Megan Green, <span lang="EN-CA"><i>Home Décor</i></span><span lang="EN-CA">, 2012, deer antlers, cell phone photo, light box, electrical cord, found wood carving</span>. Images courtesy of the artists.</font></div></div></div></div></body></html>