On Thursday evening, Dr. Elizabeth Harney will be giving a talk at the gallery on “Tracing Networks of Global Modernists in Post-War Europe.” Harney’s lecture, based on her current research, focuses on the histories of visual practice amongst artists hailing from colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, and African Americans working in post-war Europe. Thursday, February 28th at 7:00pm at the Carleton University Art Gallery. This event is FREE and everyone is welcome! Find out more here. Image: Gerard Sekoto, outside his solo exhibition, Galerie Else Clausen, Paris 1949. Photographer unknown.
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On Thursday evening, Dr. Elizabeth Harney will be giving a talk at the gallery on “Tracing Networks of Global Modernists in Post-War Europe.”

Harney’s lecture, based on her current research, focuses on the histories of visual practice amongst artists hailing from colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, and African Americans working in post-war Europe.

Thursday, February 28th at 7:00pm at the Carleton University Art Gallery.

This event is FREE and everyone is welcome! Find out more here.

Image: Gerard Sekoto, outside his solo exhibition, Galerie Else Clausen, Paris 1949. Photographer unknown.

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Collection Friday! Becky Singleton, What is Another Word for Ambiguous, No. 17, from the series Ask Alice, 1994. Azo dye print on paper. #ReadingWeekisNOTover
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Collection Friday!

Becky Singleton, What is Another Word for Ambiguous, No. 17, from the series Ask Alice, 1994. Azo dye print on paper.

#ReadingWeekisNOTover

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Ottawa Art Scene: February 21 - 27 On Friday evening, head south to the Patrick Mikhail gallery for the opening of Deborah Margo’s Topographies solo show. The exhibition includes recent knitted works and drawings from her recent travels in Europe. Available Light Screening Collective is back this weekend with “The Road Ended at the Beach and Other Legends,” the first critical survey of Canada’s mythic and amorphous “Escarpment School,” a loosely knit band of Ontario-based filmmakers that came together in the late-70s at Sheridan College. On Sunday afternoon, EBA artist Danny Hussey will have a solo show opening at Cube Gallery called “A Collection of Works by Danny Hussey.” Gotta love titles like that. The show includes his wood cuts and screen prints, including the posters from his Midday Matinee Series. Have a good weekend! Image: Danny Hussey, Dustpan Screenprint on Michael Ross photo.
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Ottawa Art Scene: February 21 - 27

On Friday evening, head south to the Patrick Mikhail gallery for the opening of Deborah Margo’s Topographies solo show. The exhibition includes recent knitted works and drawings from her recent travels in Europe.

Available Light Screening Collective is back this weekend with “The Road Ended at the Beach and Other Legends,” the first critical survey of Canada’s mythic and amorphous “Escarpment School,” a loosely knit band of Ontario-based filmmakers that came together in the late-70s at Sheridan College.

On Sunday afternoon, EBA artist Danny Hussey will have a solo show opening at Cube Gallery called “A Collection of Works by Danny Hussey.” Gotta love titles like that. The show includes his wood cuts and screen prints, including the posters from his Midday Matinee Series.

Have a good weekend!

Image: Danny Hussey, Dustpan Screenprint on Michael Ross photo.

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B3 months ago
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More beach photographs… Jeff Nolte, Lady in the Surf, from the series Florida Beach, 1981. Archival gelatin silver print on paper.
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More beach photographs…

Jeff Nolte, Lady in the Surf, from the series Florida Beach, 1981. Archival gelatin silver print on paper.

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On View: Tony Fouhse, Steph in her Room, New Glasgow, June 2011, 2011. Tony, on the start of his friendship with Stephanie McDonald: “In 2010 when I was on the same corner, this woman came up to me and we started talking. I asked if I could take her picture and right away there was some sort of connection. You meet a hundred people and then you meet the hundred and first and something goes ‘ping’ and clicks. There was something about her that I came to understand as honesty and fearlessness and her ability to get in touch with her emotions and show them to me. Over the next six weeks I met and photographed Stephanie about five times. By the end of it there was something about her that I was attracted to as a subject and as this amazing person. So I asked her if there was something I could do to help and she asked if I could help her get into rehab. I told her I would help her where I can and asked if I could take pictures of her from where you are to where you want to be. And she said sure.” You can check out this work in person in Live Through This: Photographs by Tony Fouhse, on now at CUAG until March 17th.
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On View: Tony Fouhse, Steph in her Room, New Glasgow, June 2011, 2011.

Tony, on the start of his friendship with Stephanie McDonald: “In 2010 when I was on the same corner, this woman came up to me and we started talking. I asked if I could take her picture and right away there was some sort of connection. You meet a hundred people and then you meet the hundred and first and something goes ‘ping’ and clicks. There was something about her that I came to understand as honesty and fearlessness and her ability to get in touch with her emotions and show them to me.

Over the next six weeks I met and photographed Stephanie about five times. By the end of it there was something about her that I was attracted to as a subject and as this amazing person. So I asked her if there was something I could do to help and she asked if I could help her get into rehab. I told her I would help her where I can and asked if I could take pictures of her from where you are to where you want to be. And she said sure.”

You can check out this work in person in Live Through This: Photographs by Tony Fouhse, on now at CUAG until March 17th.

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B3 months ago
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Happy Reading Week! Jeff Nolte, Beach with Airplane. From the series Port Elgin, 1986. Archival gelatin silver print on paper. Hope you’re enjoying the sun somewhere!
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Happy Reading Week!

Jeff Nolte, Beach with Airplane. From the series Port Elgin, 1986. Archival gelatin silver print on paper.

Hope you’re enjoying the sun somewhere!

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B3 months ago
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Happy Family Day, Ontario! Jamelie Hassan often includes family history in her work. Take a look at The Oblivion Seekers, which combines news and family film footage from the 1955 Islamic convention in London, Ontario. Jamelie Hassan’s The Oblivion Seekers (1985, excerpted 2008). Colour video (6:10 minutes). Originally commissioned by the Music Gallery, Toronto. Collection of the artist. As a child of immigrant parents growing up in the southern Ontario city of London, Hassan was keenly conscious of her Arab and Muslim identity. In 1955 the first Islamic convention in Canada took place in London and the local media played a significant role in capturing Hassan’s memory of dancing on this newsworthy occasion. Like much of her work from the mid-1980s The Oblivion Seekers makes use of family archives. The film juxtaposes news and family film footage of celebratory dancing and singing, moving between sites in Canada, the United States, Lebanon and Egypt. In doing so, the footage situates autobiography against the backdrop of geopolitical tensions.  You can check out this work in person in Jamelie Hassan: At the Far Edge of Words, on now at CUAG until March 17.
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Happy Family Day, Ontario! Jamelie Hassan often includes family history in her work. Take a look at The Oblivion Seekers, which combines news and family film footage from the 1955 Islamic convention in London, Ontario. Jamelie Hassan’s The Oblivion Seekers (1985, excerpted 2008). Colour video (6:10 minutes). Originally commissioned by the Music Gallery, Toronto. Collection of the artist. As a child of immigrant parents growing up in the southern Ontario city of London, Hassan was keenly conscious of her Arab and Muslim identity. In 1955 the first Islamic convention in Canada took place in London and the local media played a significant role in capturing Hassan’s memory of dancing on this newsworthy occasion. Like much of her work from the mid-1980s The Oblivion Seekers makes use of family archives. The film juxtaposes news and family film footage of celebratory dancing and singing, moving between sites in Canada, the United States, Lebanon and Egypt. In doing so, the footage situates autobiography against the backdrop of geopolitical tensions.  You can check out this work in person in Jamelie Hassan: At the Far Edge of Words, on now at CUAG until March 17.
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Happy Family Day, Ontario! Jamelie Hassan often includes family history in her work. Take a look at The Oblivion Seekers, which combines news and family film footage from the 1955 Islamic convention in London, Ontario. Jamelie Hassan’s The Oblivion Seekers (1985, excerpted 2008). Colour video (6:10 minutes). Originally commissioned by the Music Gallery, Toronto. Collection of the artist. As a child of immigrant parents growing up in the southern Ontario city of London, Hassan was keenly conscious of her Arab and Muslim identity. In 1955 the first Islamic convention in Canada took place in London and the local media played a significant role in capturing Hassan’s memory of dancing on this newsworthy occasion. Like much of her work from the mid-1980s The Oblivion Seekers makes use of family archives. The film juxtaposes news and family film footage of celebratory dancing and singing, moving between sites in Canada, the United States, Lebanon and Egypt. In doing so, the footage situates autobiography against the backdrop of geopolitical tensions.  You can check out this work in person in Jamelie Hassan: At the Far Edge of Words, on now at CUAG until March 17.
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Happy Family Day, Ontario! Jamelie Hassan often includes family history in her work. Take a look at The Oblivion Seekers, which combines news and family film footage from the 1955 Islamic convention in London, Ontario. Jamelie Hassan’s The Oblivion Seekers (1985, excerpted 2008). Colour video (6:10 minutes). Originally commissioned by the Music Gallery, Toronto. Collection of the artist. As a child of immigrant parents growing up in the southern Ontario city of London, Hassan was keenly conscious of her Arab and Muslim identity. In 1955 the first Islamic convention in Canada took place in London and the local media played a significant role in capturing Hassan’s memory of dancing on this newsworthy occasion. Like much of her work from the mid-1980s The Oblivion Seekers makes use of family archives. The film juxtaposes news and family film footage of celebratory dancing and singing, moving between sites in Canada, the United States, Lebanon and Egypt. In doing so, the footage situates autobiography against the backdrop of geopolitical tensions.  You can check out this work in person in Jamelie Hassan: At the Far Edge of Words, on now at CUAG until March 17.
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Happy Family Day, Ontario! Jamelie Hassan often includes family history in her work. Take a look at The Oblivion Seekers, which combines news and family film footage from the 1955 Islamic convention in London, Ontario. Jamelie Hassan’s The Oblivion Seekers (1985, excerpted 2008). Colour video (6:10 minutes). Originally commissioned by the Music Gallery, Toronto. Collection of the artist. As a child of immigrant parents growing up in the southern Ontario city of London, Hassan was keenly conscious of her Arab and Muslim identity. In 1955 the first Islamic convention in Canada took place in London and the local media played a significant role in capturing Hassan’s memory of dancing on this newsworthy occasion. Like much of her work from the mid-1980s The Oblivion Seekers makes use of family archives. The film juxtaposes news and family film footage of celebratory dancing and singing, moving between sites in Canada, the United States, Lebanon and Egypt. In doing so, the footage situates autobiography against the backdrop of geopolitical tensions.  You can check out this work in person in Jamelie Hassan: At the Far Edge of Words, on now at CUAG until March 17.
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Happy Family Day, Ontario!

Jamelie Hassan often includes family history in her work. Take a look at The Oblivion Seekers, which combines news and family film footage from the 1955 Islamic convention in London, Ontario.

Jamelie Hassan’s The Oblivion Seekers (1985, excerpted 2008). Colour video (6:10 minutes). Originally commissioned by the Music Gallery, Toronto. Collection of the artist.

As a child of immigrant parents growing up in the southern Ontario city of London, Hassan was keenly conscious of her Arab and Muslim identity. In 1955 the first Islamic convention in Canada took place in London and the local media played a significant role in capturing Hassan’s memory of dancing on this newsworthy occasion.

Like much of her work from the mid-1980s The Oblivion Seekers makes use of family archives. The film juxtaposes news and family film footage of celebratory dancing and singing, moving between sites in Canada, the United States, Lebanon and Egypt. In doing so, the footage situates autobiography against the backdrop of geopolitical tensions. 

You can check out this work in person in Jamelie Hassan: At the Far Edge of Words, on now at CUAG until March 17.

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B3 months ago
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Collection Friday! Pudlo Pudlat, Aeroplane, 1976. Stonecut print on paper.
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Collection Friday!

Pudlo Pudlat, Aeroplane, 1976. Stonecut print on paper.

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Ottawa Art Scene: February 14 - 21 While some students head home (or somewhere warm or snowy) for Reading Week, those of you sticking around town have lots to look forward to on the art front. Read on! Over at the Ottawa Art Gallery, Catherine Sinclair will be giving a Curator’s Walk-through of her exhibition Natural Motif on Friday afternoon. Sinclair asked local artists Lorraine Gilbert and Natasha Mazurka to offer new works inspired by the Group of Seven paintings in the Firestone Collection. Should be interesting. Speaking of local, on Friday night, SAW Gallery has a new show opening: New Ottawa Artist Spotlight: Colin Muir Dorward. Dorward is a current uOttawa MFA student, and was shortlisted for the prestigious RBC Canadian Painting Competition last year. It’s great to see galleries supporting local talent! Also this weekend, SAW Video has organized an incredible-sounding two-night retrospective of Pierre Hébert’s films. Full details here, but let’s just say that there will be performances, clarinets, and live animation, along with Hébert himself to discuss his films plus his 34 year tenure at the National Film Board. Don’t forget to check out the outdoor art installations that are part of Winterlude. IllumiNation features works by local artists such as Andrew O’Malley and Marc Walter. Head over to Confederation Park in the evening to get the full effect! Have a good one! Image: Colin Muir Dorward, Grievance Calculator, 2012.
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Ottawa Art Scene: February 14 - 21

While some students head home (or somewhere warm or snowy) for Reading Week, those of you sticking around town have lots to look forward to on the art front. Read on!

Over at the Ottawa Art Gallery, Catherine Sinclair will be giving a Curator’s Walk-through of her exhibition Natural Motif on Friday afternoon. Sinclair asked local artists Lorraine Gilbert and Natasha Mazurka to offer new works inspired by the Group of Seven paintings in the Firestone Collection. Should be interesting.

Speaking of local, on Friday night, SAW Gallery has a new show opening: New Ottawa Artist Spotlight: Colin Muir Dorward. Dorward is a current uOttawa MFA student, and was shortlisted for the prestigious RBC Canadian Painting Competition last year. It’s great to see galleries supporting local talent!

Also this weekend, SAW Video has organized an incredible-sounding two-night retrospective of Pierre Hébert’s films. Full details here, but let’s just say that there will be performances, clarinets, and live animation, along with Hébert himself to discuss his films plus his 34 year tenure at the National Film Board.

Don’t forget to check out the outdoor art installations that are part of Winterlude. IllumiNation features works by local artists such as Andrew O’Malley and Marc Walter. Head over to Confederation Park in the evening to get the full effect!

Have a good one!

Image: Colin Muir Dorward, Grievance Calculator, 2012.

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