UW Fine Arts + UWAG Present MFA THESIS 1 opening April 10

[Ivan Jurakic]

University of Waterloo Fine Arts Presents
MFA 
THESIS 1

April 10–26, 2014
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 10 from 5:00–8:00 pm

Gallery One
Amanda Rhodenizer
Turf & Twig

In Turf & Twig solitary figures are depicted at the boundaries of salable land, performing surreal and fruitless tasks. The objects they interact with recall a manufactured domesticity, displaced and almost obsolete within the outdoors. The inadequacy of these interactions is emphasized by the immensity of the wilderness behind them. Inspired by the historic “Turf & Twig ceremony”, which has its roots in the colonial, English expansion into North America, the symbolic actions depicted in these large-scale oil paintings suggest failed versions of settlement. Source images for the landscapes are retrieved from Canadian real estate websites, which advertise ‘empty lots for sale’. These open-ended narratives act as imagined histories on lots of land charged with unresolved links to the past.

Amanda Rhodenizer received her BFA from NSCAD University and is currently completing her MFA at the University of Waterloo. She was the Nova Scotia recipient of the Bank of Montreal 1st Invitational Art Competition in 2006, and has recently been awarded a Curtlands Foundation Bursary. As a recipient of the Keith and Winifred Shantz Internship Award in 2013 she assisted the painter Caroline Walker in London, UK. She has exhibited nationally and her work can be found in a number of private international collections. She is currently based in Kitchener, ON. www.arhodenizer.com

Gallery Two
Megan Green
The Jackalope in the Room

The Jackalope in the Room is an installation of sculptural and found objects that have been altered or contextualized in a way that conflates strangeness with normality. Many of the items in the installation were given as gifts or found in thrift stores, and have been modified to communicate a broader cultural or psychological meaning. Often this meaning is related to personal anecdotes and stereotypes attached to the objects that, in turn, seek to complicate popular narratives and cultural myths—many of which relate back to my experiences in northern Alberta. Northern Alberta is a liminal, near-mythical place where our ideas about remote environments collide with mass industrialization. These shibboleths have a pervasive quality that allows me to construct an uncanny web of associations using often banal source materials.

Megan Green is currently working toward an MFA at the University of Waterloo. She received a BFA from the University of Alberta in 2011. She was born in St. Johns, Newfoundland and grew up in Northern Alberta. While living in Fort McMurray she attended Keyano College and received a Visual Art and Design Diploma in 2009. In 2013 Megan completed a Keith and Win Shantz Internship where she was a studio assistant for multidisciplinary artist and taxidermist Claire Morgan in London, UK. http://megananastasiagreen.com 

Please join us in celebrating both thesis exhibitions by these promising emerging artists.
Both exhibitions are free and open to the public.

UWAG
University of Waterloo Art Gallery, East Campus Hall 1239
Fine Arts Office: 519.888.4567 ext. 36923 finearts.uwaterloo.ca
Gallery: 519.888.4567 ext. 33575 uwag.uwaterloo.ca

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

Mailing
UW Fine Arts | University of Waterloo Art Gallery
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1

Images (left to right): Amanda Rhodenizer, Signalman, 2013, oil and acrylic on canvas. Megan Green, Home Décor, 2012, deer antlers, cell phone photo, light box, electrical cord, found wood carving. Images courtesy of the artists.
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