
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" size="5" class="">MFA Thesis 2021: Jordan Blackburn</font><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" class="">Presented by University of Waterloo Fine Arts and UWAG</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">We invite you to explore the work of MFA candidate Jordan Blackburn from May 13-29</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">The exhibition is split between videos and text at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery, and site-specific works in </font><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><font size="3" class="">Trois-Rivières, </font></span><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">Quebec</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">Updated exhibition documentation will be posted online May 17</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><a href="http://uwag.uwaterloo.ca/exhibition/in-places-rarely-seen/" class="">uwag.uwaterloo.ca/exhibition/in-places-rarely-seen/</a></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><img apple-inline="yes" id="AE064B96-4D1F-4201-9FED-C4E994D63ED5" class="" src="cid:3CE1BC35-CA92-48D5-9D18-6E41754AFACD@Home"></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#919191" class=""><i class="">Now and Then</i>, Jordan Blackburn, 2020</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" class=""><b class="">Jordan Blackburn</b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" class=""><b class="">In Places Rarely Seen</b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><i class="">In Places Rarely Scene</i> is an interdisciplinary exhibition bringing together print installation, video, photography, sound and text. The exhibition considers my own shifting perception of what Nature <i class="">is</i> and how I relate to it as a man from a Qu</font><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: inherit;">é</span><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">b</font><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: inherit;">é</span><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">cois background. This shift is informed by my lived experience and practice based research which led me to questions of what it means to create ecologically focussed art, temporal investigations, inquiries into Indigenous ways of knowing Nature and land, as well as the similarities and differences between art and science.</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">Jordan Blackburn is a Franco-Albertan artist working in T</font><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><font size="3" class="">rois-Rivières, </font></span><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">QC, while pursuing an MFA degree with the University of Waterloo. Since completing a BFA in Interdisciplinary Fine Art at NSCAD University he has shown work both nationally and internationally, and has received a number of awards for his research around complex relationships between human beings and Nature, such as the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship.</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><a href="http://jordanblackburn.ca/" class="">jordanblackburn.ca</a></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">Please join us in celebrating the work of our MFA candidates during this time of transition</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><b class="">ADMIT EVERYONE</b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">University of Waterloo Art Gallery</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">East Campus Hall, 263 Phillip Street, Waterloo</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><a href="http://uwag.uwaterloo.ca/" class="">uwag.uwaterloo.ca</a></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><a href="http://facebook.com/uwag.waterloo" class="">facebook.com/uwag.waterloo</a></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><a href="http://instagram.com/uwartgallery" class="">instagram.com/uwartgallery</a></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><b class="">CONTACT</b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">Ivan Jurakic, Director/Curator</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><a href="mailto:ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca" class="">ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca</a></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><b class="">HOURS</b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">Gallery is temporarily closed until further notice</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><b class="">MAILING</b></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">University of Waterloo Art Gallery</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">200 University Avenue West</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class="">Waterloo, ON, Canada, N2L 3G1</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><img apple-inline="yes" id="C5302864-02E3-4043-89DD-E91861848F59" class="" src="cid:24D5A4C1-ACD2-4CCC-BA5E-A7845692BD71@Home"></div></div>

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