Fine Arts Speaker Series: Sasha Pierce and Adad Hannah

[Tara L Cooper]

Dear All,

You are cordially invited to the second part of our Fine Arts Speaker Series:

Sasha Pierce
Wednesday October 24th
10:00 am, East Campus Hall, Room 1219

and

Adad Hannah
Friday October 26th
1:00 pm, East Campus Hall, Room 1219


Sasha Pierce
Sasha Pierce’s work employs geometric strategies, where the action of tessellating paint results in a trompe l’oeil effect as the paint appears textile-like. This deception continues with her manipulation of contrast and colour to establish vanishing points. Carefully articulated, Peirce capitalizes on both the physicality of oil paint as material and its ability to transform two dimensional space into three dimensions.

Sasha Pierce received an MFA from the University of Waterloo in 2004 and a BA from the University of Guelph. She has exhibited at ACME, Los Angeles; Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto; and MOCCA, Toronto. Public collection acquisitions of her work include: Doris McCarthy Gallery, UTSC; and Canada Council Art Bank. In 2009, Pierce was awarded Honourable Mention in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition. She lives in Toronto and is represented by Jessica Bradley Art + Projects,.

And

Adad Hannah
In the summer of 2010, Adad Hannah travelled to Russia with only two cameras and a small assortment of lens. The results rest somewhere in-between the documentary snapshots of Robert Frank, the staged imagery of Jeff Wall and the 19th century tableaux vivant. Hannah’s lecture will highlight his Russian experience, as well as other recent projects.

Adad Hannah was born in New York in 1971, spent his childhood in Israel and England, and moved to Vancouver in the early 1980’s. Recent exhibitions include the Samsung LEEUM Museum (Seoul 2011), Prague Biennial 5 (2011), Museo de Bellas Artes (Santiago, Chile 2011), the Canadian Biennial at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa 2011), Liverpool Biennial (2010) and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (2010). His work has been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec, B.C. Art Council and the Vancouver Foundation/Contemporary Art Gallery. Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain in Montreal represents Hannah’s work.
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