Please Post | UWAG inaugural reception on Thursday September 16 from 5-8 pm

[Ivan Jurakic]

Please join us for the re-launch of UWAG, the all-new University of Waterloo Art Gallery, featuring a shared opening reception for two exhibitions:

 

 

Inaugural Opening Reception:

Thursday, September 16

5:00-8:00 pm

 

 

Gallery One

Dianne Bos | Niall Donaghy | Anitra Hamilton | Dan Kennedy

>Ticket to Ride

 

If Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is the greatest show on earth, its estranged sibling is the carnival. The carnival sets up on the outskirts, the periphery or edge of town. It is an escape from the routine of the everyday, a place where we go to flee limitations.

 

Ticket to Ride uses the carnival as point of departure and a means of uncovering the unconventional in the work of Dianne Bos (Calgary), Niall Donaghy (Hawkestone), Anitra Hamilton (Toronto) and Dan Kennedy (Toronto).

 

Dianne Bos’ Stampede series features as series of C-prints enlarged from pinhole negatives that capture rides in motion at the Calgary Stampede. Niall Donaghy’s Labyrinth Coaster is a small-scale reconstruction of a roller coaster that mimics the form of a labyrinth. Anitra Hamilton’s Audio Parade: Field Recording #2 is a recording of the Calgary Stampede parade and the audience response to it. Dan Kennedy’s paintings such as The Voice Mansion appropriate antiquated fonts and vintage cartoons that suggest the effect of the phantasmagoria or magic lantern show.

 

Ticket to Ride elicits the many different facets of the carnival, from cheap thrills to catharsis.

 

 

Gallery Two

Art Green

>Unlikely Stories

 

Unlikely Stories is a survey of recent work by Art Green, a Professor Emeritus who taught in the Fine Arts department at the University of Waterloo from 1977-2006. Spanning a 40-year period, Green’s practice has its roots in Chicago, Illinois and his formative affiliation with the iconoclastic 1960s art group The Hairy Who. Alongside his work as an instructor, his paintings have been widely exhibited and can be found in collections throughout North America and Europe.

 

Art Green’s recent paintings—completed in his Stratford, Ontario studio over a period of three years—are a densely layered collision of shapes and patterns mixed with a disquieting array of common objects. The interaction between these meticulously rendered forms suggests labyrinthine depths despite the rigidity and flatness of the shaped canvasses that the artist paints on. Combining a recurring iconography of fingers, ladders, scissors, airplanes, hats and scythes with complex geometric forms, archetypal patterns and faux finishes, the paintings represent both a formal and intellectual balancing act. Ultimately, Green’s work evokes the causality of the mundane

 

Presented in conjunction with the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo, Unlikely Stories acknowledges Art Green’s contribution and influence to the cultural life of the campus and beyond.

 

Exhibitions will be on display until October 30.

 

 

Contact:

Ivan Jurakic, Director / Curator

519.888.4567 ext. 36741

ijurakic at uwaterloo.ca

uwag.uwaterloo.ca

 

 

UWAG

University of Waterloo Art Gallery

East Campus Hall | ECH 1239

Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12:00-5:00 pm and by appointment

 

 

Mailing Address:

University of Waterloo Art Gallery

200 University Avenue West

Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1

 

 

Driving Directions:

263 Phillip Street, Waterloo, ON

-Located in East Campus Hall behind the University Shops Plaza

-Use South entrance to ECH across from new Chemical Engineering 1 building

 

 

Parking:

Limited meter parking is available behind ECH

Visitor Parking is available at Lot N and Lot UWP or Lot B after 3:45 pm

http://www.uwaterloo.ca/map/index.php

 

 

Images (from left to right): Dianne Bos, Stampede Midway, Calgary (detail), 2004, chromogenic print: 9/25, courtesy of the artist and NewZones, Calgary. Graphic icon representing Anitra Hamilton, Audio Parade: Field Recording #2, 2008, digital audio recording commissioned by the Art Gallery of Ontario for their Permanent Collection. Dan Kennedy, The Voice Mansion (detail), 2008, Oil on canvas, courtesy of the artist and Edward Day Gallery, Toronto. Art Green, Panic Stop, 2009, oil on canvas over fiberboard, courtesy of the artist. Niall Donaghy, Labyrinth Coaster (detail), 2009, basswood, birch plywood, masonite, photo by J.T McVeigh. 
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