Kelly Richardson and Kim Adams, Fine Arts Speaker Series

[Tara L Cooper]

Dear All,

The Department of Fine Arts is proud to present the next two speakers from our Visiting Artist Lecture Series. All are welcome to attend.

Kelly Richardson
Friday November 8th
11:00 am, East Campus Hall, Room 1219

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. 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 talk is held in conjunction with Kelly Richardson’s exhibition This Island Earth, now on view at UWAG. In the past, her work has been exhibited at TIFF and Sundance Film Festival, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Centre Pompidou and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Richardson is represented by Birch Contemporary, Toronto.
www.kellyrichardson.net<http://www.kellyrichardson.net/>

and

Kim Adams
Thursday November 14th
7:00 pm, East Campus Hall, Room 1219
Supported by BMO Financial Group. In-house reception to follow.


Kim Adams is recognized for his assemblage sculptures that incorporate the readymade and prefabricated to explore social structures, the implications of technology and mobility, and the divide between life and art. Adams has exhibited extensively in Canada and internationally, and his works have been shown both in sanctioned gallery spaces and in other public spaces. His challenging aesthetic and sense of humor emerge throughout his diverse practice. Recent solo shows include Artist Colony (Bureau de change, 75th Anniversary of the Banff Centre) at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, Roadside Attractions at Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria, and Bugs and Dragons at the Art Gallery of Ontario.  He is the subject of numerous books and catalogues, and his work is part of many major public collections such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Centraal Museum in Holland. Kim Adams is represented by Diaz Contemporary, Toronto.

http://www.diazcontemporary.ca/Artists_Adams.html


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