UW Fine Arts + UWAG Present MFA THESIS 1, Opening Thursday April 14 from 5-8 pm

[Jurakic, Ivan]

University of Waterloo Fine Arts Presents
MFA THESIS 1

April 14–30, 2016
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 14 from 5:00–8:00 pm

Gallery One
Marianne Burlew
Twinning

My installation affords space for contemplating the body’s unique sensory knowledge and its role in mediating perception. The exhibition consists of four stations that present sculptures in the form of furniture and textile objects, alongside videos that explore concepts of becoming through performance. Each work contains moments of co-creation, between the subjects within the works as well as between the artworks and the audience. Visitors are encouraged to interact with the objects and spend time moving from each station to the next in an active role of thinking and feeling.

Marianne Burlew is an installation artist whose work focuses on themes of embodiment. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Waterloo, and received her BFA from York University. She participated as an artist-in-residence in the textile studio at the Harbourfront Centre over several years, and has exhibited her artworks at the Idea Exchange, Red Head Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Gladstone Hotel, Craft Ontario Gallery, and Mississauga Living Arts Centre. Her work is in several private collections as well as the Fibre Art Collection of the Idea Exchange, Cambridge, ON.
www.marianneburlew.com

Gallery Two
Veronica Murawski
Uncertain Memory

Uncertain Memory features a series of figurative oil paintings on canvas and paper inspired by photographs from my family archive. My paintings are developed in stages; beginning with a process of mining and selecting specific images, which are then manipulated before being tested as studies on paper or translated to canvas. Focusing primarily on female figures I search for a sense of strangeness or ambiguity in each image—uncertainty about the figure’s actions or whereabouts in space. I mine this ambiguity to explore relationships between past and present, reflecting a personal need to establish a sense of identity and understanding of my family’s past as well as exploring the universal relationship we have to the photographic image.

Veronica Murawski is a painter who uses the figure as a means of examining shared experience and sensation. She is currently completing her MFA at the University of Waterloo, and received a BFA Honours from the University of Windsor. She has exhibited her works at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery, and Common Ground Art Gallery in Windsor. Veronica is a recipient of the 2015 Keith and Win Shantz Fellowship and spent the summer in Madrid working under the guidance of British painter Simon Edmondson. She currently lives and works in Kitchener, ON.

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

ADMIT EVERYONE
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
East Campus Hall | ECH 1239
519.888.4567 ext. 33575
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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
Located in East Campus Hall on Phillip Street off University Avenue West
Use south entrance to ECH across from Engineering 6

PARKING
Limited meter parking is available behind ECH
Visitor Parking is available in Lot E6 or Lot Q for a flat rate of $5.00
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MAILING
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1




Images (left to right): Marianne Burlew, Twinning (still), video, 2016. Veronica Murawski, Anniversary (detail), oil on canvas, 2015. Images courtesy of the artists.
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