UWAG Presents Kelly Richardson | Opening November 7

[Jurakic, Ivan]

November 7–December 21, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 7 from 5:00–8:00 pm

Gallery One + Two
Kelly Richardson
This Island Earth

Kelly Richardson makes works that draw on cinema and the history of landscape painting as inspiration. Typically taking months to render, Richardson's images seamlessly integrate computer-generated imagery with footage shot in the natural wilderness to create haunting immersive landscapes. This Island Earth contrasts the high-definition video installations Orion Tide and The Last Frontier with a C-print of her landmark panorama Mariner 9. Each futuristic environment suggests the fallout from some undefined man-made or ecological catastrophe. Combining aspects of the Romantic sublime with tropes of extinction more common to video games and contemporary cinema, her landscapes share a 'calculated ambiguity' that makes them at once arresting and unsettling. This body of work illuminates our planets pending environmental crisis while inviting us to ponder possible futures. Kelly Richardson is represented by Birch Contemporary, Toronto.
www.kellyrichardson.net

Artist Talk: Friday, November 8 at 11:00 am in ECH 1219

Please join us for this visually arresting exhibition.

ADMIT EVERYONE
Exhibitions are free and open to the public.

UWAG
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
East Campus Hall | ECH 1239
519.888.4567 ext. 33575
uwag.uwaterloo.ca
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Hours
Tuesday to Saturday
12:00-5:00 pm
Or by appointment

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

Driving
263 Phillip Street, Waterloo, ON
Located in East Campus Hall on Phillip Street off University Avenue West, behind University Plaza
Use South entrance to ECH across from Engineering 6

Parking
Limited meter parking is available behind ECH
Visitor Parking is available in Lot E6, E5 or Lot B after 3:45 pm for a flat rate of $5.00
http://www.uwaterloo.ca/map/index.php

Mailing
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1

Image: Kelly Richardson, Orion Tide, 2013. Courtesy of the artist and Birch Contemporary, Toronto.


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