Of those about to flit off into the *real* world to taste the delights it has to offer.
Yes, the title says it all. You know exactly what I’m talking about. Just like Nathan here (right above you, with the polka-dot socks) shot by JJ Levine, does. We all know what’s going on. Next Tuesday is the opening for the 7th annual Concordia Graduating Students Art Exhibition, (What’s Up With All The Capitals I Wonder?).
Detailed Info about the show can be found here. It’s featuring work by Kakim Goh, Erik Osberg, Katie Jung, JJ Levine, Megan Cameron, Ali El-Darsa and others.
At Concordia, in 2 places, both apparently of which will have wine (most important thing about vernissages, after all) - the VA Building (where the vernissage bits and pieces are primarily happening, which is on the corner of Rene-Levesque and Bishop) and in the EV building, 1515 de Maisonneuve Ouest, in room 1-715.
Filed under art shows, artists, local, vernissage | Tags: Concordia, graduating, vernissage | Comment (0)COMBINE
COMBINE is the name of this year’s Concordia Undergraduate Show. Some of the artists showing have already received love on this site like Bridget Moser and Katie Jung but I’ll be sure to be there to scout out new interesting people to add to the blogosphere. Here are all the details.
April 27 - May 22, 2009
Opening Thursday April 30th from 6 - 8pm
FOFA Gallery
1515 St Catherine Ouest
Jennifer Abernan
Denise Santillan Moreno
Tara Chartrand
Matthew Gagnon
Gaëlle D. Lalonde
Nimalan Yoganathan
Christina Hirukawa
Patrick Guilbeault
Marilyne Blais
Pier-Yves Larouche
David G. Butler
Étienne Tremblay-Tardif
Zoë Yuristy
Stephanie Lau
Alanna Lynch
Lise Latreille
Kevin Bertram
Brett Bergmann
Laël Williams
Sylvia Chan
Bridget Moser
Adrian DiLena
Yolaine Lefebvre
Katie Jung
Conversation with artists
hosted by jake moore
Thursday April 30th
12:30 - 1:30 PM
Alanna Lynch, Lise Latreille, Brett Bergmann, Jennifer Abernan, Christina Hirukawa, Patrick Guilbeault, Zoë Yuristy
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Gaëlle D. Lalonde, Matthew Gagnon, Kevin Bertram, Yolaine Lefebvre, Pier-Yves Larouche
5:00 - 6:00 PM
Nimalan Yoganathan, Tara Chartrand, David G. Butler
Étienne Tremblay-Tardif, Katie Jung, Bridget Moser, Stephanie Lau
Go get your robe and necklace already…
Tonight, performance artists/ruffian Jason Harvey and his cohort Michael Farsky, (at least in this endeavour) plan to marry cats, mystic dance, and hypnotize some folks, all in front of you.
A large-scale interdisciplinary art event, Demon Night promises to be, in their words, a “bright cosmic passage on to a new echeleon of existence. Feeling one with every person in the same room, learning and sharing a new found understanding and strength. Be free and be joyous, and spread the light that is within you!”
I am going to personally be in Vermont being one with a bunch of strangers and mountain views, but if you are sticking around Montreal, the night starts at 11pm and the loft it is in will be completely transformed to look like a giant womb, (no comment) replete with a “cuddle wing”, so you might end up not leaving until the wee hours of the morning at the earliest.
It is at Lab.synthese, which is located at 435 Beaubien West. There IS a cover charge, and it IS $5 which includes a robe and necklace.
Filed under events, immersive art, installation, local, performance | Tags: Concordia, Jason Harvey, Lab Synthese, Michael Farsky | Comment (0)Of all the weekends…
Argh. I am going out of town this weekend, and while I am not unhappy about it, I am sad I will miss this:
http://interdisciplinarycartographies.wordpress.com/
I know there isn’t a pretty image to alongside this link but click it, dear reader, click it! It’s a conference that’s happening at Concordia entitled Interdisciplinary Cartographies: Space, Architecture and Politics. The line-up looks interesting and includes workshops/keynotes by Gina Badger and Cynthia Hammond.
It runs from March 19th-21, 2009. The workshops still have a few spaces available so email n_himada@live.concordia.ca to register for those. The one thing I can’t find out anywhere is if it’s free or not. Anyone, anyone know? I’m getting the *vibe* that it’s free, but just in case someone out there can verify that for me…..
Surface Tension (Ready to go back to the Belgo?)
For those of you who experienced the Belgo on Nuit Blanche I can understand if you’re not quite ready to go back this week, but to you I say “Hey come on, don’t be a baby.” This Thursday as a part of Art Matters the vernissage for Surface Tension will be going on from 7pm-10pm in ) Les Territoires (5th Floor Belgo Building, suite 527) 372 St. Catherine O. There will be pieces from Alia Ahmad, Carolina Aponte, Michelle Bui, Jessica Campbell, Laura Findlay, Anna Labarias, Pier-Yves Laroche, Sarah Maloney, Rachel Shaw, and Veronique Vallieres ranging from paintings to ceramics and fiber work. Not to be missed, even if the idea of entering the Belgo is presently giving you sweaty palms I promise you everything will be okay.
Filed under art shows, artists, events | Tags: Art Matters, belgo, Concordia, nuit blanche, territiores | Comments (2)The Drawn Goodness of Theresa Sapergia
Theresa Sapergia is an undeniably talented draftswoman, and on top of this, her subjects are all terrifically engaging. Case in point below, with two great examples: top models with bling so big it hides their faces and various angles of the best pug I’ve ever laid my pretty and almost-but-not-really emerald green eyes on.
Her streamlined painterly drawings are definitely worth the look, but I’ll admit I have a particular affinity for her more drawerly paintings (as she calls them). It’s always a bit of a tricky situation to discuss drawing and ‘where it stands in contemporary art’, so I tend to often come to the conclusion that I should just evaluate drawings based on my own (potentially contrived and limited) taste in themes and aesthetics. Sapergia draws cute animals and hot-looking people with a touch of humour, and the idea that the body is, as she writes, “a site of complex social negotiations, assumptions and exchanges of power”; so she’s all good in my book.
The Concordia University graduate has exhibited in New York City, at AIR Gallery and Eli Klein, and across Canada in Vancouver, Toronto & Montreal. She currently lives in Nelson, BC where she has a tattoo shop. She will be exhibiting Canada Day, her reflections “on a post-apocalyptic Canada where animals have over taken (or taken back) nature,” at the Parisian Laundry from January 9 to February 14, 2009. While you’re there, make sure you take a look at the Bunker and Gallery 2 of Parisian Laundry, where engineer, visual artist and Concordia Graduate Geoffrey Jones will be exhibiting at the same time. The vernissage of this promising show will take place on Thursday, January 8, 2009 between 6 and 9pm. You can check its facebook event page for more information. I know I did, because otherwise this entire paragraph wouldn’t exist.
