UWAG Presents Elinor Whidden + Barbara Hobot opening Thursday, January 14

[Jurakic, Ivan]

January 14–March 5, 2016
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 14 from 5:00–8:00 PM

Gallery One
Elinor Whidden
Rearview

Over the last decade, Elinor Whidden has travelled across Canada and the United States staging situations that challenge the prevailing myth of the North American frontier. Combining performance, photography, and sculptural installations, the artist situates herself as an ersatz explorer, supplanting the historical role of the frontiersman. Developed between 2007-2014, this collection of staged photographs and proxy artifacts explores how deeply the “discovery” of North America is tied to artifacts of colonialism, and how this can subsequently be linked to the subjugation of the landscape and the proliferation of the automobile—a beacon of progress that the artist poignantly deconstructs as an emblem of cultural and environmental degradation. www.elinorwhidden.com

Gallery Two
Barbara Hobot
Strong Bonds

Barbara Hobot’s multidisciplinary artworks are made from objects that have been manipulated, traced, and translated from one medium into another. A drawing might be the basis for a sculpture, which then in turn becomes a collage. By taking spatial and material cues from one work and introducing these to another form or medium, her process suggests an underlying unity between disparate elements. Each gesture is determined as much by chance as it is by the artist’s speculation about the desires of inanimate things. Hobot’s aim is to create a circumstance in which the artworks themselves appear to be self-generating. Barbara Hobot is represented by Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto. 
www.barbarahobot.com

The artist wishes to acknowledge the support of the Ontario Art Council.

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

ADMIT EVERYONE
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
East Campus Hall 1239
519.888.4567 ext. 33575
uwag.uwaterloo.ca
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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 (ECH) on Phillip Street off University Avenue West, behind University Shops Plaza
Use south entrance to ECH across from Engineering 6

PARKING
Visitor Parking is available in Lot E6 for a flat rate of $5.00
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): Elinor Whidden, Explorer (detail) from the Ford EXPLORER series, 2009, Photo: Jessica Abraham. Barbara Hobot, Gaps Full of Potential #5 (detail), 2015. Image courtesy of the artist and Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto.
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