Doug Aitken, More (shattered pour) (2013), high density foam, wood, and mirror, 65 x 49 x 6 inches, courtesy of 303 Gallery. Diane Pellicone, our intrepid CUAG Art Critic, went to New York City and spent some time touring around the Chelsea gallery scene. Here are her highlights from the trip!
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Doug Aitken, More (shattered pour) (2013), high density foam, wood, and mirror, 65 x 49 x 6 inches, courtesy of 303 Gallery.

Diane Pellicone, our intrepid CUAG Art Critic, went to New York City and spent some time touring around the Chelsea gallery scene. Here are her highlights from the trip!

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Today is Earth Day 2013

How about celebrating with a walk in Gatineau Park or visiting the Canadian Museum of Nature (free today!)? And this weekend, check out the Living Green Expo!

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Shuvinai Ashoona, Wold View, 2011. Lithograph. Now on view at the National Arts Centre, as part of Inuit Ullumi: Inuit Today: Contemporary Art from TD Bank’s Inuit Collection.

Carleton University students: Scholars Portal has put together a guide with resources on climate change, environmentalism, agro-farming, and more!

How will you be spending Earth Day?

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CUAG Picks: #NorthernScene - Music

CUAG has two exhibitions for Northern Scene - Dorset Seen and Dawson Gold - but there are a TON of other events happening in Ottawa for the cross-disciplinary arts festival. In case you need it, here are our picks for Northern Scene’s Music offerings! I had a great time Youtubing everyone, and here’s who I’m looking forward to the most. 

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CUAG Picks: #NorthernScene - Visual Arts

CUAG has two exhibitions for Northern Scene - Dorset Seen and Dawson Gold - but there are a TON of other events happening in Ottawa for the cross-disciplinary arts festival. In case you need it, here are our picks for Northern Scene’s Visual Arts offerings! (Obviously this was a super-difficult one for us!)

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Erin Shirreff: Pictures opens tonight at Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with CUAG and Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston), collectively making the first comprehensive exhibition of Kelowna, BC-born Shirreff’s work in Canada. Each venue presented unique exhibitions (remember ours, Erin Shirreff: Available Light?). Erin Shirreff: Pictures will be the first presentation dedicated exclusively to that artist’s film and video work. Lake (2012) (pictured above) uses an image of Lake Okanagan in B.C. where Shirreff grew up and her family still lives, the picture taken from an ealy 1980s tourism magazine. For this work, Shirreff re-photographed the original image many times sequencing these as a series of stills, deploying subtle shifts in colour and light to alter the original hand-painted quality. Images from Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York.
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Erin Shirreff: Pictures opens tonight at Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with CUAG and Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston), collectively making the first comprehensive exhibition of Kelowna, BC-born Shirreff’s work in Canada. Each venue presented unique exhibitions (remember ours, Erin Shirreff: Available Light?). Erin Shirreff: Pictures will be the first presentation dedicated exclusively to that artist’s film and video work. Lake (2012) (pictured above) uses an image of Lake Okanagan in B.C. where Shirreff grew up and her family still lives, the picture taken from an ealy 1980s tourism magazine. For this work, Shirreff re-photographed the original image many times sequencing these as a series of stills, deploying subtle shifts in colour and light to alter the original hand-painted quality. Images from Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York.
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Erin Shirreff: Pictures opens tonight at Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with CUAG and Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston), collectively making the first comprehensive exhibition of Kelowna, BC-born Shirreff’s work in Canada. Each venue presented unique exhibitions (remember ours, Erin Shirreff: Available Light?). Erin Shirreff: Pictures will be the first presentation dedicated exclusively to that artist’s film and video work. Lake (2012) (pictured above) uses an image of Lake Okanagan in B.C. where Shirreff grew up and her family still lives, the picture taken from an ealy 1980s tourism magazine. For this work, Shirreff re-photographed the original image many times sequencing these as a series of stills, deploying subtle shifts in colour and light to alter the original hand-painted quality. Images from Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York.
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Erin Shirreff: Pictures opens tonight at Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with CUAG and Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston), collectively making the first comprehensive exhibition of Kelowna, BC-born Shirreff’s work in Canada. Each venue presented unique exhibitions (remember ours, Erin Shirreff: Available Light?). Erin Shirreff: Pictures will be the first presentation dedicated exclusively to that artist’s film and video work. Lake (2012) (pictured above) uses an image of Lake Okanagan in B.C. where Shirreff grew up and her family still lives, the picture taken from an ealy 1980s tourism magazine. For this work, Shirreff re-photographed the original image many times sequencing these as a series of stills, deploying subtle shifts in colour and light to alter the original hand-painted quality. Images from Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York.
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Erin Shirreff: Pictures opens tonight at Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with CUAG and Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Kingston), collectively making the first comprehensive exhibition of Kelowna, BC-born Shirreff’s work in Canada. Each venue presented unique exhibitions (remember ours, Erin Shirreff: Available Light?).

Erin Shirreff: Pictures will be the first presentation dedicated exclusively to that artist’s film and video work. Lake (2012) (pictured above) uses an image of Lake Okanagan in B.C. where Shirreff grew up and her family still lives, the picture taken from an ealy 1980s tourism magazine. For this work, Shirreff re-photographed the original image many times sequencing these as a series of stills, deploying subtle shifts in colour and light to alter the original hand-painted quality.

Images from Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York.

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Collection Friday! Rita Letendre, April Time, 1981. Silkscreen on paper.
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Collection Friday!

Rita Letendre, April Time, 1981.

Silkscreen on paper.

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Ottawa Art Scene: April 18 - 24

Pablo Picasso, Vase of Flowers, 1908. Oil on canvas. Image via Museum of Modern Art, New York.

If you’re around campus on Friday, SSAC has organized another edition of their Friends of Art History series lecture, this time on Picasso’s Plants. Dr. Alma Mikulinsky will be analyzing a 1932 exhibition of Picasso’s work in Paris and André Breton’s 1933 “Picasso in his Element” text, in which flora plays a significant role.

Also at Carleton University, the annual Industrial Design School Grad Exhibition will open on Friday evening. Students showcase their final design projects, and it’s a great way to check out young and innovative Carleton talent. The exhibition will be up until next Tuesday.

On Sunday afternoon, head to the west end of Ottawa for “A Moveable Talk” with artists Rosalie Favell and Rita Leistner. The talk starts at the GCTC’s Fritizi Gallery, where Leistner’s The Edward Curtis Project exhibition is now on view, and then the audience will walk down Wellington to Cube Gallery, where Favell’s current exhibition is on display.

AXENÉO7 has been celebrating their 30th anniversary with monthly Salons, inviting artists and community members to informal dinners to discuss art, love, politics, aesthetics. Each dinner features artists, curators, writers who have contributed to the Gatineau artist-run centre’s history. The next one is Wednesday!

Have fun this weekend!

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From Dorset Seen: Shuvinai Ashoona, Untitled (People lining up to sell artworks),2012. Graphite, coloured pencil, and felt pen on paper. Collection of Dorset Fine Arts. Shuvinai Ashoona is part of a group of artists – including Ohotaq Mikkigak, Tim Pitsiulak and Jutai Toonoo – who regularly work in the Co-op’s drawing studio. Others visit the studio on Tuesday or Thursday to sell their drawings to Bill Ritchie, the Co-op’s studio manager. Of the many drawings acquired, only a few are made into prints each year. Most are shipped to Dorset Fine Arts, the Co-op’s marketing division in Toronto, where they are acquired by commercial galleries from around the world. As Bill Ritchie commented, this drawing is a kind of organized “photo shoot” of the community’s artists and printmakers: each is identified with a syllabic inscription. Standing, from left: Bill Ritchie, Tutuiya Jaw, Helena Ashevak, Niviaqsi Quvianaqtuliaq, Cary Merrit, Joemie Tapaunga, Nuyalia Quviaqtuliaq, Qavavau Manumie, Qiatsuk Niviaqsi, Timoon Pitsiulak, Cee Pootoogook, Susie Ashevak, Jutai Toonoo, Louisa Jaw Seated, from left: Emataluk Sagiak, Qaqulu Sagsiatuk, Papiara Tukiki
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From Dorset Seen:

Shuvinai Ashoona, Untitled (People lining up to sell artworks),2012. Graphite, coloured pencil, and felt pen on paper. Collection of Dorset Fine Arts.

Shuvinai Ashoona is part of a group of artists – including Ohotaq Mikkigak, Tim Pitsiulak and Jutai Toonoo – who regularly work in the Co-op’s drawing studio. Others visit the studio on Tuesday or Thursday to sell their drawings to Bill Ritchie, the Co-op’s studio manager. Of the many drawings acquired, only a few are made into prints each year. Most are shipped to Dorset Fine Arts, the Co-op’s marketing division in Toronto, where they are acquired by commercial galleries from around the world.

As Bill Ritchie commented, this drawing is a kind of organized “photo shoot” of the community’s artists and printmakers: each is identified with a syllabic inscription.

Standing, from left: Bill Ritchie, Tutuiya Jaw, Helena Ashevak, Niviaqsi Quvianaqtuliaq, Cary Merrit, Joemie Tapaunga, Nuyalia Quviaqtuliaq, Qavavau Manumie, Qiatsuk Niviaqsi, Timoon Pitsiulak, Cee Pootoogook, Susie Ashevak, Jutai Toonoo, Louisa Jaw

Seated, from left: Emataluk Sagiak, Qaqulu Sagsiatuk, Papiara Tukiki

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CUAG Picks: #NorthernScene - Film

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CUAG has two exhibitions for Northern Scene - Dorset Seen and Dawson Gold - but there is a TON of other events happening in Ottawa for the cross-disciplinary arts festival. In case you need it, here are our picks for Northern Scene’s Film offerings.

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