UWAG Presents Roula Partheniou + Kelly Mark opening Thursday, September 17, 5-8 pm

[Jurakic, Ivan]

September 17–October 31, 2015
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 17 from 5:00–8:00 PM

Gallery One
Roula Partheniou
Inventory

Toronto-based Roula Partheniou makes remarkable sculptural replicas based on domestic items, construction materials and office supplies. Whether stacked, shelved or left leaning against the wall, the artist’s use of precise forms and a reductive colour palette elicits a double take that invites viewers to pause and reconsider how their initial reading of common visual cues can often be deceptive. Inventory is a survey exhibition that recontextualizes a selection of works made between 2010-2015, ranging from sculptures that first appeared in the solo exhibition Never Odd or Even to new and more recent works that formed parts of the artist’s installation House & Home & Garden. Responding to the unique circumstance of the gallery, Inventory is an opportunity to explore new pairings and relationships between the artist’s accumulated lexicon of objects. Roula Partheniou is represented by MKG127, Toronto. www.roulapartheniou.com

The artist would like to express her gratitude to Munich Reinsurance Company Canada Branch (Life), Micah Lexier, Matthew Varey, Joy Walker and Howard Podeswa for loaning work for the exhibition. Thanks also to Ivan Jurakic, Josh Peressotti, Michael Klein, Dave Dyment, Juliane Foronda, Peter Symons, Jon Sasaki, Paul Van Kooy, Wendy Gomoll, Daryl Vocat, Dudley Paul, Jon Davies, Matthew Hyland, Fynn Leitch, Celeste Scopelites, Jennifer Matotek, and to her family. The works in this exhibition have been generously supported by the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Gallery Two
Kelly Mark
108 Leyton Ave

Toronto artist Kelly Mark makes work informed by a keen interest in everyday observations, from compiling lists to channel-surfing to recombining common phrases. 108 Leyton Ave is perhaps her most personal work comprising a precisely synced video of the artist essentially playing cards and conversing with herself. Filmed over many months and titled after the street address of a house that the artist lived in for several years, the push and pull of the exchange between the mirror images is alternately tense, funny and engrossing. Expressing the artist’s full range of interests while cleverly encapsulating nearly 20 years of artmaking, 108 Leyton Ave is a revealing portrait of physical and emotional endurance. Kelly Mark is represented by Diaz Contemporary, Toronto. www.kellymark.com

The artist wishes to acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Please join us for the launch of our fall exhibitions program.
Exhibitions are free and open to the public.

ADMIT EVERYONE
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
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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
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Use south entrance to ECH across from Engineering 6

PARKING
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MAILING
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Images (left to right): Roula Partheniou, Storage Shelf (detail), 2015. Image courtesy of the artist and MKG 127, Toronto. Kelly Mark, 108 Leyton Ave, 2014. Image courtesy of the artist and Diaz Contemporary, Toronto.
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