Sightings II
constructed / generic / altered / industrial
May 24 - August 3, 2012
A project by Marie-France Daigneault Bouchard, with artworks by Roland Brener, David Duchow, Lauréat Marois, Kim Ondaatje
The Gallery is featuring works from its collection in a series of five satellite exhibitions curated by graduate students in Concordia’s art history and studio arts programmes. Each exhibition takes place in a temporary exhibition display module measuring 8’ X 8’ that will be located on the metro level of the EV Building. Sightings will offer a unique opportunity for students and the public to become familiar with the Gallery’s collection in a new setting, while allowing students to develop their curatorial skills.
Image: Roland Brener, Capital Z, #11, 1993, silver print, Collection of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University. Gift of the artist, 1995. Photo : Paul Smith
http://ellengallery.concordia.ca/en/50years-activities-and-events.php
SOLIDARITY PIQUE-NIQUE à la maison RADIO-CANADA le 16 mai, de 12h à 14h
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Les réductions budgétaires aux diffuseurs publics et à l’ONF ne sont pas pasées inaperçus! Les étudiantEs en grève du Québec vous invitent à un pique-nique de solidarité devant la Maison Radio-Canada au 1400 boul. René-Lévesque Est, le 16 mai, de 12h à 14h. En festoyant devant leurs bureaux, nous créerons une opportunité pour que les journalistes de Radio-Canada puissent apprendre à mieux connaître les gens impliqués dans la lutte pour une éducation postsecondaire accessible à tous. Apportez vos nappes de pique-nique, votre lunch et venez vous dorer la couenne sous le chaud soleil de la démocratie! En cas de pluie (un événement météorologique clairement anti-démocratique) le pique-nique aura lieu le lendemain.
Spending cuts to our public media outlets: The CBC and NFB have not gone unnoticed by students! Student Strikers of Québec invite all Canadians to a solidarity picnic lunch in front of Montréal’s Maison Radio-Canada, 1400 Boulevard René-Lévesque East, Wednesday the 16th of May, from 12-2pm. Besides eating and playing at this family-friendly event, we are creating an opportunity for the CBC to interview the the folks involved in the peaceful protest for accessible education and improved social services for all. Bring your picnic (red if you have!) blankets and lunch to come bask in the sunshine of democracy. (In case of rain, the picnic will be held the following day, Thursday, May 17th.)
MAY 18 TO JUNE 16, 2012
IGNITION
VELIBOR BOZOVIC
MARIE-PIER BRETON
CHUN HUA CATHERINE DONG
JOANNE JOE YAN HUI
JENNA DAWN MACLELLAN
WREN NOBLE
JAMES DOUGLAS WHITMAN with BARRY DOUPE
Projects selected by independant curator Véronique Leblanc and Ellen Art Gallery Director Michèle Thériault
EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, May 17, 5:30-7:30 pm
With songs performed by James Whitman and a performance by Chun Hua Catherine Dong
Now in its 8th edition, IGNITION is an annual exhibition featuring recent work by students in Concordia University’s graduate Studio Arts program, and, for the first time, the Humanities doctoral program. With IGNITION, the Ellen Gallery gives students the possibility to show their work in a professional context, while offering the public the opportunity to discover a selection of Montreal’s up-and-coming artists. Working in a variety of media, this year’s artists engage with questions and narratives that are of social, cultural, and/or political relevance in artworks that often bridge documentary and fiction, the personal and the relational, performance and embodied experience.
EVENTS
MEET THE ARTISTS
Thursday May 17 at 4:30 pm
At the Gallery
FREE ADMISSION
Performances by CHUN HUA CATHERINE DONG
From May 17 to June 2, 2012
Please visit our website for the performance Schedule
At the Gallery
FREE ADMISSION
Comic Jam with JOANNE JOE YAN HUI
Saturday May 26 12:00 to 2:00 pm
At the Gallery, in English
Limited places available, reservation required
(children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult)
Information: mpolosa@alcor.concordia.ca
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday, 12:00 – 6:00 PM, Saturdays 12:00 – 5:00 PM
Address: 1400, boul. De Maisonneuve West, ground floor J.W. McConnell Library Building Métro Guy-Concordia
General information: 514 848-2424 ext. 4750 www.ellengallery.concordia.ca
Events & tours: Marina Polosa, 514 848-2424 ext. 4778 mpolosa@alcor.concordia.ca
Free admission – wheelchair accessible
http://ellengallery.concordia.ca/en/expositions_ignition2012.php
Vernissage May 12, 2:30pm - 5:30pm
Glenda Leon: Dirigir las Nubas
Appel de dossiers/Call for proposals:: Jeune tête d’affiche
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CCA Special Exhibition Tour for students with Anthony Vidler
Students are invited to a special tour of the upcoming exhibition Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling with curator Anthony Vidler. In English.
May 16, 2012
11 am
Limited attendance
Reservations required:
514-939-7002
James Frazer Stirling : Notes from the Archive
An inside look at the work of British architect James Frazer Stirling, the 400 original architectural drawings, models, and photographs reveal Stirling’s wide-ranging approach to architectural composition and language, as well as the fundamental importance of historical and modernist architecture to his work.
Curated by Anthony Vidler, Dean and Professor of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union.
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Monique MacLeod
Coordonnatrice, Programmes éducatifs
Coordinator, Educational Programs
Centre Canadien d’Architecture
Canadian Centre for Architecture
1920, rue Baile, Montréal, Québec H3H 2S6
T 514 939 7001 x 2608
F 514 939 7020
The international “Elektra” festival is coming to Montreal.
Steven Woloshen’s (MFA 2010) short film, “Playtime” will screen in the cinema portion of this wonderful international festival. Read more.
Facebook invite for “14” —>vernissage<—show at Stewart Hall Gallery. If you have FB please invite yourself, family, and friends, if you are one of the “14” please add yourself as a host.
See you there!
Khadija Baker- Showing in the 18th Biennale of Sydney! Congrats!
Sightings
The Gallery is featuring works from its collection in a series of five satellite exhibitions curated by graduate students in Concordia’s art history and studio arts programmes. Each exhibition takes place in a temporary exhibition display module measuring 8’ X 8’ that will be located on the metro level of the EV Building. Sightings will offer a unique opportunity for students and the public to become familiar with the Gallery’s collection in a new setting, while allowing students to develop their curatorial skills.
Sightings I: Inundations
April 5 - May 18
A project by Anne-Marie Proulx, with artworks by Raymonde April
Anne-Marie Proulx is interested in the effects of accumulation and regrouping of photographs in Raymonde April’s artistic practice. In the context of Sightings I: Inundations, Proulx examines the influence of the photographs’ presentation context on their reception, their capacity to evoke other images, as well as the correspondences that could emerge between them.
This project proposes three investigations into Raymonde April’s artwork Tout embrasser: two photographs extracted from its original 517 components; the eponymous publication which contains reproductions of the two exhibited photographs, revealing their relationship to the others in the April’s series; as well as a personal and narrative interpretation of the artist’s images.
http://ellengallery.concordia.ca/en/50years-activities-and-events.php
Click the photo to preview the catalogue!
JOIN US FOR A GROUP SHOW AT STEWART HALL GALLERY!
14: Betino Assa, Mathieu Cardin, Natalie Draz, Jude Griebel, Paul Hardy, Pei-Wen Liu, Flavia Majlis, Aanchal Malhotra, Jenna Meyers, Anahita Norouzi, John Player, Sandra Smirle, Sara A. Tremblay, Alexis Williams
Vernissage/Opening: Samedi Le 5 Mai a 14h/Saturday May 5 at 2pm
Centre cultural de Pointe-Claire, Stewart Hall-176,Chemin du Bord-du-Lac/Lakeshore Rd-Pointe Claire (Québec) H95 4J7-
T5146301254/F.5146301285
millarj@ville.pointe-claire.qc.ca
This show is AMAZING! Come check out the indigo labyrinth at the ‘moitissage’ this Thursday, April 19th!
April 4 – 30 Avril 2012
Exposition: Indigo Griots: Tales of an urban dyer – Montréal by Valérie d. Walker. Indigo Griots: Montréal is an intermedial (analogue -> digital and back again) lattice of exhibition, performances, artist talks, workshops, demonstrations and guided studio visits all taking place at EspaceFibre’s dye studios & exhibition space.
The central threads of our presentation are the dyer’s obsession with the magic of colour and pattern; how magic and personal stories are entwined with collective memory. Our binding power is Indigo, elemental power, a diety so love-filled, once Indigo grabs a’hold of a heart it never lets go. Blending residue of Fire (Ash), Plant cakes, Water and Heat we try to catch Magic on our Cloth.
Valérie d. Walker in collaboration with Espace Fibre Artists Helene Brousseau, Natalie Tremblay and Jessica Lemus-Coto, presents an immersive, large scale, Labyrinthine installation of Indigo dyed cloth-panels embedded with layered meanings.
In the labyrinthe are projections, onto cloth, of video extracts from the Indigo Griots, Minneapolis 2011, performance featuring shakuhachi flute and “tellings” by Mr. Douglas Ewart, mixed with griots experiences in Montréal around the dye pots.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EXHIBITION
TRAFFIC : CONCEPTUAL ART IN CANADA 1965-1980, Part 2
CURATING TRAFFIC
Panel Discussion
Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 1 pm
J.A. de Sève Cinema, LB-125
Concordia University
1400 de Maisonneuve West
Guy-Concordia metro station
FREE ADMISSION, in English
Curators Grant Arnold (Vancouver), Catherine Crowston (The Prairies and the Arctic), Barbara Fischer (Toronto), Michèle Thériault with Vincent Bonin (Montreal), and Jayne Wark with Peter Dykhuis (Halifax) will discuss Traffic as a collaborative curatorial model, providing insight into the process of bringing together an exhibition of this scale and scope.
http://ellengallery.concordia.ca/en/evenements.php
Image: Garry Neill Kennedy, My Fourth Grade Class, 1972, lithograph. Collection of NSCAD University. Courtesy of the artist and Anna Leonowens Gallery.
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Merci- Jenna Meyers
