UWAG launches Season Two exhibitions on Thursday September 15 5:00-8:00 pm

[Jurakic, Ivan]

September 15-October 29, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 15 from 5:00-8:00 pm


Gallery One
Laurel Woodcock
Jump Cuts

Jump Cuts is a mid-career survey of interdisciplinary artworks by the Toronto-based artist. Known for her appropriation and translation of everyday subjects and catchphrases, the survey features a selection of a dozen works that span the last decade of the artist's perceptual investigations ranging from more recent works such as on a clear day and cloud, to earlier projects such as wish you were here. The exhibition forms a snapshot of the artist's use, and purposeful misuse, of language, ideas and subtle humour.

As an extension to the exhibition, the artist will be restaging her popular project wish you were here, featuring a chartered plane flying over the campus with a banner that simply reads WISH YOU WERE HERE. Flight Times: Saturday, September 17 from 4:00-5:00 pm and Saturday, September 24 from 11:55-12:55 pm. (Rain Dates: September 20 and 27, 12:00-1:00 pm).

The project is being presented in partnership with CAFKA.11: Survive. Resist and REUNION 2011. wish you were here has been made possible by the generous support of the Waterloo Region Arts Fund.

In conjunction with the Fine Arts Speaker Series, Laurel Woodcock will present an artist talk on Tuesday, October 18 at 11:00 am in East Campus Hall Room 1219. 


Gallery Two
Colleen Wolstenholme
Synaethesiac

Recognized for her larger-than-life sculptural renderings of pharmaceuticals, particularly anti-depressants commonly prescribed to women,Synaesthesiac is a blend of established and new work. Spill, a series of 20 cast plaster pills is paired alongside the debut of an eponymous wall-based collage developed in collaboration with New York artist Gillian McCain. Wolstenholme's artwork evokes the detrimental side of prescription medicines and her work draws parallels between healthy and traumatized states of mind.

In addition, there will be an off-site component featuring recent bronze casts Xanax and Dilaudid on display in the lobby of the School of Pharmacy, located at 10A Victoria Street South in Kitchener. Public visiting hours are: Monday to Friday, from 8:00 am-5:00 pm.

The off-site component is being presented in partnership with the 25th Annual Conference of the SLSA (Society for Literature, Science and the Arts) being held September 22-25 in Kitchener and CAFKA.11: Survive. Resist.

In conjunction with the Fine Arts Speaker Series, Colleen Wolstenholme will present an artist talk on Friday, September 16 at 11:30 am in East Campus Hall Room 1219. 

Please join us for the opening of these thought-provoking exhibitions.
The artists will be present at the reception.

 
UWAG
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
East Campus Hall | ECH 1239
519.888.4567 ext. 33575

Hours:
Tuesday-Saturday 12:00-5:00 pm
or by appointment

Contact:
Ivan Jurakic, Director / Curator
519.888.4567 ext. 36741
ijurakic at uwaterloo.ca
uwag.uwaterloo.ca


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