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<h1 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A">MFA Thesis 2022:
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<h1 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A">Ashley Guenette | Sarah Galarneau<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h4 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A">Presented by University of Waterloo Fine Arts and UWAG</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></h4>
<h4 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A">A</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">pril 7-23</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></h4>
<h4 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A">O</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">pening Reception: Thursday April
7, 5-8 PM*</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></h4>
<h4 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">*Visitors are required to show proof or vaccination and comply with campus safety guidelines</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></h4>
<h4 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:normal"><img width="803" height="600" style="width:8.3645in;height:6.25in" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D84812.D7E59C30"></span><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></h4>
<h4 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ashley Guenette</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:normal"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Put a finger down if you’ve ever been personally victimized by social media algorithms</span><o:p></o:p></h4>
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<i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Put a finger down if you’ve ever been personally victimized by social media algorithms
</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">is a collection of generative artworks created in response to algorithmically-determined social media content. Using TikTok, I have deliberately engaged with viral trends that serve as
digital microaggressions, such as body and slut shaming, the glorification of mental health disorders such as ADHD, depression, anxiety and eating disorders, and ‘it girl’ routines in order to carefully curate an endless stream of content. Using a variety
of mediums, I reinterpret this content in order to offer the viewer a glimpse into this playful yet hateful side of social media, which has been normalized in pop culture and to acknowledge the negative impacts of this content on women-identified and BIPOC
individuals and other marginalized groups.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ashley Guenette is a Franco-Ontarian artist from rural Northern Ontario. Her recent work draws from algorithmically-generated social media content in order to reveal their hidden forms of oppression
and reframe them in critical, feminist contexts. Using analogue methods to interpret digital content, her drawings, paintings, and multiples challenge aesthetic conventions of painting while engaging in an ongoing dialogue with its histories.
<span style="color:black;background:white"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/ashleyguenart/?hl=en">@ashleyguenart</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><img border="0" width="803" height="600" style="width:8.3645in;height:6.25in" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D84812.D7E59C30"></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h4 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A">Sarah Galarneau</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:normal"><br>
</span><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A">Seedlings</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Seedlings</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> is a bio-structural, garden-like environment in which the boundary between the architectural and the vegetal
begins to blur. The conceptual fabric that runs through this body of work is a rhizomatic mesh of ecological, science-fictional, and socio-political themes, forming the theoretical basis of a constructed world of printed, recuperated, and reconstituted modular
objects that creep and crawl across the gallery’s surfaces. <i>Seedlings</i> fuses philosophies of ecology with a sense of visionary, liberatory futurity. What stories, theories, actions, and matter will comprise the building blocks of a more ecologically
sustainable and socially just future? In this world, the seeds of potentiality emerge from the compost to become the seedlings of versatile structures. Tending to the seeds of radically hopeful ideas means bridging the gaps between fiction and science, between
concept and construction. Seedlings are ideas that have taken root and are growing–perhaps in unconventional ways.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sarah Galarneau is an artist from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Primarily working in print media, she is currently extending this practice into the creation of print-based paper sculptures
and installations. With one foot in ecological philosophies and the other in visionary fiction, her work explores notions of interconnectivity, cyclicality, biomimicry, potentiality, and futurity; as well as the socio-political implications of such subjects.
<span style="color:black;background:white"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/sarahgalarneau/?hl=en">@sarahgalarneau</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please join us in celebrating the thesis work of our MFA candidates in-person!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">ADMIT EVERYONE</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
University of Waterloo Art Gallery<br>
East Campus Hall, Room 1239<br>
519.888.4567 ext. 33575<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://uwag.uwaterloo.ca/">Website</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/uwag.waterloo/">Facebook</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/uwartgallery/">Instagram</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">CONTACT</span></strong><br>
Ivan Jurakic, Director/Curator<br>
519.888.4567 ext. 46741<br>
<a href="mailto:ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca</a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">HOURS</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
Wednesday to Friday 12-5 pm</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Or by appointment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">MOBILITY</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ground floor entry</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Automated doors available at Fine Arts entrance</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Wide pathways</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Accessible washrooms on ground level</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">DRIVING</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">263 Phillip Street, Waterloo<br>
East Campus Hall (ECH) is located adjacent to Engineering 6 (E6)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Campus
<a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/map/">map</a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">PARKING</span></strong><br>
Visitor Parking is available in Lot B beside Engineering 6 (E6) for a flat rate of $5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Campus
<a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/map/">map</a><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">MAILING</span></strong><br>
University of Waterloo Art Gallery<br>
200 University Avenue West<br>
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><img border="0" width="550" height="100" style="width:5.7291in;height:1.0416in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D84812.D7E59C30"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Image credits and descriptions:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">1) Ashley Guenette, “You’re So Easy” (detail), 2021, acrylic on canvas. Image courtesy of the artist.
<b>Description:</b> A painting on canvas featuring an expressive representation of a large red emergency button that has been altered to read: “you’re so easy”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">2) Sarah Galarneau, “Forest Floor (Homage to Old Growth)” (detail), 2021-22,
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Linocut prints on Masa paper, ArtPrint paper, cotton embroidery thread, laser-cut prints on plywood, gifted floor tiles, various recuperated pieces of MDF, plywood, Masonite, and other pieces
of lumber. <span style="color:black">Image courtesy of the artist. <b>Description:</b> Floor installation of linocut prints featuring green and brown plants and foliage displayed flat and accordion-style on a variety of reclaimed wood boards and surfaces.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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