UWAG Presents Zeke Moores + Kelly Jazvac opening Thursday, November 6

[Jurakic, Ivan]

November 6–December 20, 2014
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 6 from 5:00–8:00 pm

Gallery One
Zeke Moores
Dispose

Zeke Moores' sculptures draw inspiration from everyday life. He modifies and manipulates objects in unexpected and surprising ways. Through a nuanced play with material, weight, size and perception Moores invites viewers to assess the values, which govern the aesthetics of mass production and consumer culture. Echoing the constant state of transition in our material culture, the artists reimagines ordinary and mundane objects such as cardboard boxes, wooden crates, milk crates and a moving blanket—items that are usually discarded and left to join the accruing detritus of disposable goods. Moores reclaims these objects as cultural artifacts of our time and recreates them in bronze and aluminium to highlight their beauty and potential while honouring the labour of factory working who spend hours on the assembly line. Moores develops each work by hand. Drawing on his extensive knowledge and skills in foundry production and fabrication, these objects signify the dignity and merit of these labour-intensive processes. Curated by Srimoyee Mitra and Bruce Johnson

The exhibition is organized and circulated in partnership with The Art Gallery of Windsor and The Rooms Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador—Provincial Art Gallery Division, with support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and the City of Windsor.
www.zekemoores.ca

Gallery Two
Kelly Jazvac
Anthropophotogenic

Kelly Jazvac’s playful mostly abstract assemblages are made out of discarded materials reclaimed from the advertising and plastics industry. Her sculptures and wall works propose connections between synthetic materials and larger social, environmental and economic systems. Jazvac’s current focus is a plastic pollution-focused research group, which includes an interdisciplinary collaboration with geologist Dr. Patricia Corcoran and oceanographer Charles Moore. Their work centres around the discovery and study of a new stone that have termed Plastiglomerate, a mix of natural materials—sand, coral, volcanic rock— and melted plastic debris that washes ashore from the ocean. Their findings have been published in GSA Today, and reported by The New York Times, Science Magazine, The Huffington Post, and The Globe and Mail. They consider this research to be evidence of the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch in which human progress has left an indelible mark upon the fossil record.
www.kellyjazvac.com
www.visualinvisible.com


Please join us for these thought-provoking exhibitions.
Free and open to the public.

UWAG
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
East Campus Hall 1239
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
Note: Use Bridgeport Road exit, University Avenue West exit is closed for construction

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

Images (left to right): Zeke Moores, Moving Blanket, 2013. Image courtesy of the artist and Diaz Contemporary, Toronto. Kelly Jazvac, Plastiglomerate Sample, 2014. Image courtesy of the artist and Diaz Contemporary, Toronto.
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