UW Fine Arts + UWAG Present MFA Thesis I opening April 13, ECH 1239

[Jurakic, Ivan]

University of Waterloo Fine Arts Presents
MFA THESIS I

April 13–29, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 13 from 5:00–8:00 pm

Gallery One
Jess Lincoln
An Interior

"What if I painted wallpaper?" This proposition relates to my interest in the psychological and social function of décor and decorative labour. An Interior is an investigation through the lens of my body and experience, and the installation serves to emphasize this line of inquiry. The paintings that cover the walls alternate between large and narrow panels. The imagery is domestic. The large panels are structured by a repeated geometric quilt pattern and each contains one large central ‘figure’, which might be my body or a substitute—a mass of flowers, a heap of clothing. The narrow panels consist of smaller paintings where the images are more varied: a pair of boxed pantyhose, the guts of a miniature pumpkin, an empty photo frame. A figure wearing a bedsheet, like a child’s Halloween ghost costume, appears as a gesturing guide. Floral patterns repeat throughout. Desaturated purples, peaches, blues and beiges are punctuated by patterns of metallic gold and black. The overall effect is of being engulfed in a complex and claustrophobic domestic space.

Jess Lincoln received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from NSCAD University in 2012, and completed an exchange program in painting at Kookmin University in Seoul, South Korea. In 2016, she travelled to England to work with painter Sigrid Holmwood as a recipient of the Keith and Win Shantz Fellowship, and was awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant. www.jesslincoln.ca

Gallery Two
Alexis Grey Hildreth
9 Sum Sorcery

9 Sum Sorcery is a free-form game system; a single-player occultural study; a ritualized re-negotiation of post-consumer packaging and retail detritus—cardboard backing, foam packing, clamshell casing, box inserts, rubber bands, and tagging barbs. 'The Player' pursues alchemical goals, across, beneath, and within the deconstructed space of vintage board gamesChaos and Merlin. These archaic modes of entertainment are seized upon by the imagination of The Player in an exasperated attempt at the regeneration and renewal of self and world through intuitive play. The Player's desire to simultaneously project narrative onto, and remove narrative from the components in play further complicates the game. Combining multidisciplinary sculptural elements and video, 9 Sum Sorcery encourages engagement in a spiritual ordeal, where the potential for transformation through obsessive gameplay can readily become an eerily paralyzing psychosis.

Alexis Grey Hildreth is a multidisciplinary artist. He received a BFA from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2014 and is currently pursing an MFA from the University of Waterloo where he is a recipient of the Keith and Win Shantz Fellowship. www.gozertoast.com

Please join us in celebrating the work of these promising artists.
Exhibitions are free and open to the public.

ADMIT EVERYONE
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
East Campus Hall 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
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 or Q for a flat rate of $5.00
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MAILING
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
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Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1




Images courtesy of each artist (left to right): Jess Lincoln, An Interior (detail), 2017. Alexis Grey Hildreth, 9 Sum Sorcery (video still), 2017.
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