2009 University of Waterloo MFA Graduate Exhibitions

[Barbara Hobot]

The University of Waterloo Fine Arts Department is pleased to announce the
MFA graduate exhibitions featuring the works of:  Colin Carney, Scott
Everingham, Heidi Overhill, Ram Samocha, Miranda Urbanski, and Nathalie
Quagliotto.
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*Ram Samocha
No Peace*
(image: New Male Born, 2009. 72" x 84". Coloured pencil on unstretched
canvas)


March 28 - April 18, 2009
*Opening: *Saturday, March 28th, 5-8pm
Live Drawing Performance, 6-7pm

*Artery Gallery*
158 King St. W.
Kitchener, ON


*No Peace* is the title of the latest drawing installation made by Israeli
born artist Ram Samocha. As an immigrant, Samocha focuses on the issues of
personal and global transformation and uses challenging media such as
drawing, animation, video and performance. In his new series of works
Samocha talks about the emotional restlessness of an immigrant who lives in
a peaceful place but at the same time is tormented by the ongoing war in his
homeland.

Ram Samocha is a member of The Red Head Gallery, an artists' collective in
Toronto and presently resides in Ontario. Samocha's work is part of various
museum and private collections and has been shown in Israel, The
Netherlands, Mexico, the United States and Canada.

Open Tuesday - Saturday, 2-6pm
www.artery.uwaterloo.ca
arterygallery at gmail.com <http://www.me.com/mail/#>
www.samocha.com
www.theredheadgallery.org



 *Scott Everingham
Based on a True Story*
(image: The Easy Way Out of Collapse, 2009. 30" x 35", oil on canvas)


March 30 - April 14, 2009
*Opening: *Friday, April 3rd, 7-9pm

*Paul Petro Special Projects*
962 Queen Street West
Toronto ON
www.paulpetro.com


Neither true nor false:* *Based on a True Story explores the space in which
one may become dislocated, anxious, and unsettled.

Heavily influenced by literary and cinematic fiction, Everingham generates
content for each painting through a process of discovery, examining
ambiguity of both landscape and figuration simultaneously. This new body of
work investigates the arrangement of space through the limitation and
autonomy of paint by remaining inventive and impulsive. The painted
environments are at once illogical and concrete, implying both failure and
reconstruction.

Based on a True Story is Everingham's debut solo show in Toronto as a
University of Waterloo MFA graduate. He received his BFA from NSCAD
University in 2004, and was published in Magenta Foundation's Carte Blanche
Vol. II Painting. He has recently exhibited in STARE at the Brick Lane
Gallery London, La Petite Mort Gallery in Ottawa, and the Satellite Gallery
at the University of San Antonio.

www.scotteveringham.com
everingham at gmail.com <http://www.me.com/mail/#>




*Colin Carney*
*Locate/Dislocate: Haiku Videos*
(image: Intermittent, 2008. digital video, 24 seconds, looped)

April 13 - April 17, 2009
*Opening:* Friday, April 17th, 7-9pm

*Render*
263 Phillip Street, East Campus Hall

University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON


Carney adopts the 5-7-5 haiku poem as a video structure. In works which last
no longer than 30 seconds the artist explores a variety of situations that
are at times transient, domestic, sublime and intimate. Carney uses a
combination of superimpositions and quick edits in an effort to locate or
dislocate our position in each circumstance.

colin at colincarney.com <http://www.me.com/mail/#>
www.colincarney.com



 *Heidi Overhill
MoMe*


April 13 - April 24, 2009
*Opening:* April 17th, 5-8pm

Birthday cake will be served.

*ECH Front Gallery*
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West (entrance off Philip Street)
Waterloo ON


As an exhibition designer, Heidi Overhill has created permanent galleries
for the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Royal
Ontario Museum, the National Museum of the Philippines, and the Shania Twain
Centre.

Now applying formal museum design methodology to the domestic problems of
her own house, Overhill has created the Museum of Me. Current curatorial
work at MoMe focuses on accessing the permanent collection: assigning each
item in the house a standardized reference number and recording basic data
about its identity, medium, location, dimensions and provenance. This
inaugural exhibition from MoMe features works from the collection with their
records. A gift shop sells MoMe t-shirts, postcards and other souvenirs.

me at mome.ca <http://www.me.com/mail/#>



*Miranda Urbanski
Performative Gestures*
(image: Staring Contest, 2009. 72" x 60". oil on canvas)


April 22 - April 30, 2009

*Opening:* Saturday, April 25th, 6-9pm

*Render*
263 Phillip Street, East Campus Hall

University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON

Miranda Urbanski brings artistic perspective gained in Canada and abroad to
her exhibition, Performative Gestures. Miranda's series of self-portraits
explores identity as changing social performance - in essence a masquerade.
She uses the vivifying power of oil paint and bold gestural brush marks to
bring her fleshy figures to life.

<http://www.me.com/mail/#>miranda at mirandaart.com <http://www.me.com/mail/#>




*Nathalie Quagliotto
The Maturity Playgound*

(image: Maturity Correlation, 2008. 12' x 4' x 8'. seats, chains, metal)


May 4 - May 22, 2009.
*Opening: *Friday, May 8th, 5-8pm

*Render*
263 Phillip Street, East Campus Hall

University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON


Quagliotto's practice is rooted in taking everyday pre-fabricated objects
linked to childhood and disrupting their associated habitual function to the
point in which they become tensional situations for adults. When approaching
and experiencing these manipulated forms, the works present a method for
people to deal with dilemmas of morality in association with the self and in
association with others by playing out the activity of the object.
Quagliotto will present a sculptural series of reconfigured playground
structures that make up The Maturity Playground in May, 2009.



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Barb Hobot
Curator-in-residence
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