<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><img height="180" width="288" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="0DA86D7A-AB22-4689-B251-7D8FA5A52E1E" src="cid:5C2B2A3B-9CDB-4414-9E4E-F8F63F7E698D@nexus.uwaterloo.ca"><br><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">January 15–March 7, 2015</span></strong><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Opening Reception: Thursday, January 15 from 5:00–8:00 pm</span></strong><br><br><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);">Gallery One</span></strong><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Michelle Bellemare</span></strong><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><b>When push comes to shove</b></span></font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Michelle Bellemare’s sculptures reference common objects ranging from Ziploc containers to sleeping bags. Each is meticulously remade and altered to function as an analog of the human body. Evoking the body’s vulnerability as well as its resilience in the face of physical and psychic trauma, Bellemare’s most powerful works are at once approachable and forbidding. When push comes to shove is a survey of new and recent works produced since 2006. Despite their seeming simplicity, Bellemare’s time-consuming process of prototyping and testing the limits of materials requires significant periods for research and production. The exhibition includes major works such as Casket (2006/07), Sleeping Bag (2011/12) and the debut of a new kinetic sculpture Moving forward falling back (2013/15). These works are complex and psychologically loaded yet strike a familiar chord, marrying the artist's exploration of the human condition with a deeply felt need to approach materials as poetry. Michelle Bellemare lives and works in Toronto. The artist acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. </span></font><div><a href="http://www.michellebellemare.com/">www.michellebellemare.com</a><br><br><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);">Gallery Two</span></strong><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dave Dyment</span></strong><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Addendum to the Tommy Westphall Universe</span></strong><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Dave Dyment’s subject matter is culture, particularly film and television. Using media as an archival resource material, he remixes images and information culled from the internet and other sources as the content for his critically incisive work. Addendum to the Tommy Westphall Universe takes its cue from the last episode of the television series St. Elsewhere (1982-1988), which ended on the suggestion that the entire run of the series existed in the imagination of an autistic boy. Since several characters from the show had made crossover appearances in other television programs, the premise developed into an internet meme. Dyment pushes this concept by referencing further crossovers between live action and cartoon television programs to map out a broad fictional multiverse. Combining a large-format wall drawing with supporting props and photographs, Dyment’s work suggests a far more interconnected mediascape than we imagine. Dave Dyment lives and works in Toronto and is represented by MKG127.</span></font><div><a href="http://www.dave-dyment.com/">www.dave-dyment.com</a><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Please join us for these thought-provoking exhibitions.</span></strong><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Free and open to the public.</span></strong><br><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);">UWAG</span></strong><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">University of Waterloo Art Gallery</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">East Campus Hall 1239</span><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">519.888.4567 ext. 33575</span><br><a href="http://uwag.uwaterloo.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">uwag.uwaterloo.ca</span></a><br><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);">Hours</span></strong><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Tuesday to Saturday</span> </div><div><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</span><br><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);">Contact</span></strong><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><a href="mailto:ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca</span></a><br><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);">Driving</span></strong><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</span><br><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);">Parking</span></strong><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><br><br><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(221, 0, 0);">Mailing</span></strong><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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><br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Images (left to right): Michelle Bellemare, <i>Moving forward falling back </i>(detail), 2014. Image courtesy the artist. Dave Dyment, <i>Power Rangers In Space, </i>Season 1, Episode 4, <i>Shell Shocked</i>, Air Date: February 27, 1998.</span></div></div></div></body></html>