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Best Before
An exhibition of artworks by:
KC Adams
Keesic Douglas
Cheryl L’Hirondelle
Peter Morin
Suzanne Morrissette
Graduate Gallery, OCAD University
205 Richmond St. West, Ground floor
Toronto, Ontario
April 27 to May 7, 2011
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 12 to 5 p.m.
Opening Reception: April 27, 6 to 9 p.m.
In BEST BEFORE artists strategically reference food in their artworks as personal markers of their histories, traditions, home, family and community. Together these works complicate notions of cultural identity while signaling the links between colonization and the global food system.
Cooked up and Curated by Lisa Myers
An exhibition of artworks by:
KC Adams
Keesic Douglas
Cheryl L’Hirondelle
Peter Morin
Suzanne Morrissette
Graduate Gallery, OCAD University
205 Richmond St. West, Ground floor
Toronto, Ontario
April 27 to May 7, 2011
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 12 to 5 p.m.
Opening Reception: April 27, 6 to 9 p.m.
In BEST BEFORE artists strategically reference food in their artworks as personal markers of their histories, traditions, home, family and community. Together these works complicate notions of cultural identity while signaling the links between colonization and the global food system.
Cooked up and Curated by Lisa Myers
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I will presenting at an upcoming symposium at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York, May 2011. Please see information below:
We are pleased to announce the program, “Essentially Indigenous?: Contemporary Native Arts Symposium,” at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, May 5th and 6th.
In the past, many discussions about Native art have focused mostly on the identity of the artist. While Indian identity has a place in the ongoing dialogue about Native art, our intention for this symposium is to break new ground by focusing on the art. What is it about a work of art by a Native artist that makes it Native? Iconography, subject matter, or aesthetic sensibility? Is it a relationship to land or ties to traditional art forms? Is there something essential we can or should define?
The program will open with a keynote presentation by the Anishnaabe artist Robert Houle. The sessions will be chaired by Kathleen Ash-Milby, Mario Caro, Gerald McMaster, Nancy Mithlo, and Robert Jahnke. The speakers will include artists, scholars, and graduate students in the field, both Native and non-Native. A respondent will close each day with reflections on the day’s sessions. A complete list of speakers and paper topics has been announced on the NMAI Symposia website and is also attached.
The complete Program, including optional evening and other activities for registered attendees, will be posted soon on the Symposium website.
www.AmericanIndian.si.edu/symposia
This free event is open to the public, but online Registration is strongly recommended to reserve a seat and receive program updates.
Activities on Thursday May 5th will run from 9AM–4:30PM. Activities on Friday May 6th will run from 9AM–2PM.
We are pleased to announce the program, “Essentially Indigenous?: Contemporary Native Arts Symposium,” at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, May 5th and 6th.
In the past, many discussions about Native art have focused mostly on the identity of the artist. While Indian identity has a place in the ongoing dialogue about Native art, our intention for this symposium is to break new ground by focusing on the art. What is it about a work of art by a Native artist that makes it Native? Iconography, subject matter, or aesthetic sensibility? Is it a relationship to land or ties to traditional art forms? Is there something essential we can or should define?
The program will open with a keynote presentation by the Anishnaabe artist Robert Houle. The sessions will be chaired by Kathleen Ash-Milby, Mario Caro, Gerald McMaster, Nancy Mithlo, and Robert Jahnke. The speakers will include artists, scholars, and graduate students in the field, both Native and non-Native. A respondent will close each day with reflections on the day’s sessions. A complete list of speakers and paper topics has been announced on the NMAI Symposia website and is also attached.
The complete Program, including optional evening and other activities for registered attendees, will be posted soon on the Symposium website.
www.AmericanIndian.si.edu/symposia
This free event is open to the public, but online Registration is strongly recommended to reserve a seat and receive program updates.
Activities on Thursday May 5th will run from 9AM–4:30PM. Activities on Friday May 6th will run from 9AM–2PM.
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past now, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario
Opening Reception: November 25, 2010 7-9pm
This thematic double-solo exhibition features photography by Meryl McMaster (Toronto) and painted wood carvings by Luke Parnell (Vancouver). These rising Aboriginal artists address the distances to historical representations of and by indigenous people, embodying past artistic motifs in living contemporary forms.
As the curators write, “The mantle of colonialism in North America propelled photographers and artists of past centuries to pictorially ‘preserve’ indigenous cultures. Stubborn, ruinous stereotypes arose from such representations and issues surrounding their perpetuation inevitably raised questions with respect to Aboriginal agency. Two emerging Aboriginal artists—Meryl McMaster and Luke Parnell—engage their work in critical conversations with the past. From distinct perspectives, they question the life of historical images today. Through subtle variations of historical image and iconography, both exemplify past now as a creative credo.
Meryl McMaster constructs images using reproductions of historical photographs and paintings to summon the sustained presence of ancestors and to redirect the function of such images. Her photographic vignettes employ props, found objects and talismans to illuminate a self-reflective passage. Through portraiture, McMaster challenges temporal boundaries. Definitive chapters of history blur and dissolve into ambiguous, residual traces. Responding both to established conventions of public display and the contemporary Aboriginal reclamation of scholarship.
A brochure with essays by the guest curators accompanies the exhibition, published by the MacLarenArtCentre.
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BONEFEATHER, aceartinc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
Callum Paterson + Nathan Gilliss | July 2nd – August 18, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday July 2nd, 2010, 7pm
“Callum “Kyd” Paterson and Nathan “Houston” Gilliss are super-stylie animators out to destroy the earth with their pizzazz. Their production company, Public Ritual, makes multi-media video that combines STOP-motion, punk drawings, and weird ideas with their digital prowess. Callum is a former tree-planter turned musical prodigy. Nathan moved here from Kentucky to dominate Emily Carr. Headquarters for Public Ritual is a flashy studio filled with stringed instruments and lights and cameras and drawings and a French chick sewing fashion in the corner. BoneFeather, their debut film, has garnered tons of attention at TIFF’s children’s festival and at student festivals across the US and Canada, most likely for what Callum calls ‘the notion of awkward sexuality in the imaginary natural kingdom.’ There is something about Public Ritual that is a little bit dangerous, a little bit genius, and totally hawt. And, they gave birth to Jesus.”
Check it: www.publicritual.ca
The co-curators of this project are Emily Doucet (University of Winnipeg) and Suzanne Morrissette (Ontario College of Art and Design), both currently interning at aceartinc. With this exhibition they are exploring the use of experimental programming space outside of the traditionally used spaces of aceartinc. ‘Emily’s Cove’ (located in the front stairwell) and ‘Suez Gallery’ (located by the washrooms) are the spaces to be employed in this project. By incorporating a portion of the set and materials used in the creation of the short film ‘Bonefeather’ the curators hope to entertain new possibilities for video display and introduce the sculptural and multi-media elements involved in the production of stop-motion animation.
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You Are Here, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Opening Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 6:30 pm
Curators select and display works of art in exhibitions to tell particular stories. Historically, Aboriginal artists have been underrepresented in these narratives. Using work by six Aboriginal artists from the permanent collection at the AGO, You Are Here inserts new narratives in six different locations around the Gallery. Although they are physically separate, they function together to bring an Aboriginal dimension to the history of art.
You Are Here is a project by the students of Inside the AGO – an innovative course offered as part of OCAD’s MFA program in Criticism and Curatorial Practice. It provides students with an extended opportunity to learn about curatorial practice in a large public institution. Instructed and mentored by the AGO’s curatorial and education staff, their residency culminates in an art project created in collaboration with individuals from across the museum.
Curated by Ebony Haynes, Jordan MacInnis, Suzanne Morrissette, Sara Munroe and Lisa Myers.
http://www.ago.net/you-are-here
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past now, Graduate Student Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
12:00pm, Thursday March 4, 2010 to 5:00pm, Saturday March 13, 2010
Opening Reception:
March 4th, 2010
7pm to 9pm
Curated by Suzanne Morrissette and Lisa Myers; 1st year MFA in Criticisim and Curatorial Practice students at OCAD
Past Now is an exhibition concerned with the life of images. Artists Meryl McMaster and Luke Parnell enter into a dialogue with meaning in visual representations of Aboriginal identity. Their works rupture stereotypes embedded in historical iconography to challenge and problematize the legacy of these images.
Graduate Student Gallery
205 Richmond Street
Ground Floor
(enter via Duncan Street entrance)
Toronto, Ontario
416.977.6000 x423
Free
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verge, Graduate Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 to Saturday, October 17th, 2009
This collection of works by new Interdisciplinary Master’s students to OCAD exemplifies the culmination of diverse histories and varied approaches to art, media and design. These disparate stories converse in a space designed to weave together divergent practices. Verge represents both a coming together and a point of departure – a moment of convergence that speaks thematically to the fabrication of new narratives.
Featuring works by Teresa Ascencao , Anya Chudnovtseva , Joseph Clement, Barr Gilmore, Hyein Lee, Genevieve Maltais , Joshua Morden, Suzanne Morrissette, Lisa Myers, Alexei Vella and Lisa Visser.
Curated by Ebony Haynes, Jordan MacInnis, Suzanne Morrissette, and Lisa Myers.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 14, 6-9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Thurs. Oct. 15th-Sat. Oct. 17th, 12-5 p.m.
Opening Reception: November 25, 2010 7-9pm
This thematic double-solo exhibition features photography by Meryl McMaster (Toronto) and painted wood carvings by Luke Parnell (Vancouver). These rising Aboriginal artists address the distances to historical representations of and by indigenous people, embodying past artistic motifs in living contemporary forms.
As the curators write, “The mantle of colonialism in North America propelled photographers and artists of past centuries to pictorially ‘preserve’ indigenous cultures. Stubborn, ruinous stereotypes arose from such representations and issues surrounding their perpetuation inevitably raised questions with respect to Aboriginal agency. Two emerging Aboriginal artists—Meryl McMaster and Luke Parnell—engage their work in critical conversations with the past. From distinct perspectives, they question the life of historical images today. Through subtle variations of historical image and iconography, both exemplify past now as a creative credo.
Meryl McMaster constructs images using reproductions of historical photographs and paintings to summon the sustained presence of ancestors and to redirect the function of such images. Her photographic vignettes employ props, found objects and talismans to illuminate a self-reflective passage. Through portraiture, McMaster challenges temporal boundaries. Definitive chapters of history blur and dissolve into ambiguous, residual traces. Responding both to established conventions of public display and the contemporary Aboriginal reclamation of scholarship.
A brochure with essays by the guest curators accompanies the exhibition, published by the MacLarenArtCentre.
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BONEFEATHER, aceartinc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
Callum Paterson + Nathan Gilliss | July 2nd – August 18, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday July 2nd, 2010, 7pm
“Callum “Kyd” Paterson and Nathan “Houston” Gilliss are super-stylie animators out to destroy the earth with their pizzazz. Their production company, Public Ritual, makes multi-media video that combines STOP-motion, punk drawings, and weird ideas with their digital prowess. Callum is a former tree-planter turned musical prodigy. Nathan moved here from Kentucky to dominate Emily Carr. Headquarters for Public Ritual is a flashy studio filled with stringed instruments and lights and cameras and drawings and a French chick sewing fashion in the corner. BoneFeather, their debut film, has garnered tons of attention at TIFF’s children’s festival and at student festivals across the US and Canada, most likely for what Callum calls ‘the notion of awkward sexuality in the imaginary natural kingdom.’ There is something about Public Ritual that is a little bit dangerous, a little bit genius, and totally hawt. And, they gave birth to Jesus.”
Check it: www.publicritual.ca
The co-curators of this project are Emily Doucet (University of Winnipeg) and Suzanne Morrissette (Ontario College of Art and Design), both currently interning at aceartinc. With this exhibition they are exploring the use of experimental programming space outside of the traditionally used spaces of aceartinc. ‘Emily’s Cove’ (located in the front stairwell) and ‘Suez Gallery’ (located by the washrooms) are the spaces to be employed in this project. By incorporating a portion of the set and materials used in the creation of the short film ‘Bonefeather’ the curators hope to entertain new possibilities for video display and introduce the sculptural and multi-media elements involved in the production of stop-motion animation.
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You Are Here, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
Opening Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 6:30 pm
Curators select and display works of art in exhibitions to tell particular stories. Historically, Aboriginal artists have been underrepresented in these narratives. Using work by six Aboriginal artists from the permanent collection at the AGO, You Are Here inserts new narratives in six different locations around the Gallery. Although they are physically separate, they function together to bring an Aboriginal dimension to the history of art.
You Are Here is a project by the students of Inside the AGO – an innovative course offered as part of OCAD’s MFA program in Criticism and Curatorial Practice. It provides students with an extended opportunity to learn about curatorial practice in a large public institution. Instructed and mentored by the AGO’s curatorial and education staff, their residency culminates in an art project created in collaboration with individuals from across the museum.
Curated by Ebony Haynes, Jordan MacInnis, Suzanne Morrissette, Sara Munroe and Lisa Myers.
http://www.ago.net/you-are-here
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past now, Graduate Student Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
12:00pm, Thursday March 4, 2010 to 5:00pm, Saturday March 13, 2010
Opening Reception:
March 4th, 2010
7pm to 9pm
Curated by Suzanne Morrissette and Lisa Myers; 1st year MFA in Criticisim and Curatorial Practice students at OCAD
Past Now is an exhibition concerned with the life of images. Artists Meryl McMaster and Luke Parnell enter into a dialogue with meaning in visual representations of Aboriginal identity. Their works rupture stereotypes embedded in historical iconography to challenge and problematize the legacy of these images.
Graduate Student Gallery
205 Richmond Street
Ground Floor
(enter via Duncan Street entrance)
Toronto, Ontario
416.977.6000 x423
Free
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verge, Graduate Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 to Saturday, October 17th, 2009
This collection of works by new Interdisciplinary Master’s students to OCAD exemplifies the culmination of diverse histories and varied approaches to art, media and design. These disparate stories converse in a space designed to weave together divergent practices. Verge represents both a coming together and a point of departure – a moment of convergence that speaks thematically to the fabrication of new narratives.
Featuring works by Teresa Ascencao , Anya Chudnovtseva , Joseph Clement, Barr Gilmore, Hyein Lee, Genevieve Maltais , Joshua Morden, Suzanne Morrissette, Lisa Myers, Alexei Vella and Lisa Visser.
Curated by Ebony Haynes, Jordan MacInnis, Suzanne Morrissette, and Lisa Myers.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 14, 6-9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Thurs. Oct. 15th-Sat. Oct. 17th, 12-5 p.m.
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2010, Catalogue Essay. "Luke Parnell", MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario.
2010, Review. "Ours, and the Hands that Hold Us: Playing by the Rules: Alternative Thinking/Alternative Spaces", apexart, fuse magazine, Issue 33.4.
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2010, Review. "Ours, and the Hands that Hold Us: Playing by the Rules: Alternative Thinking/Alternative Spaces", apexart, fuse magazine, Issue 33.4.
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