Gallery 1C03

Chris Reid: I like to believe I am telling the truth

2012-01-23T09:40:00.007-06:00

NEW EXHIBITION!

Chris Reid
I like to believe I am telling the truth
February 9 – April 14, 2012

Opening reception at Gallery 1C03: Thursday, February 9, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Artist talk followed by opening reception at Oseredok (184 Alexander Avenue East): Thursday, February 9 at 7:00 p.m.

Gallery 1C03 & Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre are pleased to co-present I like to believe I am telling the truth, a double-sited solo exhibition of new and recent work by Manitoba artist Chris Reid. The exhibition includes large-scale pastel drawings, quirky re-interpretations of Ukrainian Easter eggs and multi-media sculptural installations that incorporate recycled and found objects. Through these diverse media, Reid invents lush visual narratives containing a sundry cast of characters – from folkloric symbols of her Ukrainian heritage and her husband’s African heritage such as Baba Yaga buildings and Anansi the spider to idiosyncratic anthropomorphic cats, dolls, bunnies and bread – that play out their actions in surreal prairie landscapes and unsettling domestic environments.

Reid’s art is beguiling in its playful yet cynical nature and its realization in ultra bright colours, unexpected materials and widely differing scales. The artist’s day job as a housing resource and homelessness coordinator and her roles as a wife and mother greatly inform the psychological tensions evident in her compositions. As Reid notes, her art is “a deceptively inviting metaphor for anxiety, obsessive thought and coping. It is about the desire to belong, to be a part of a community, the frustration and disappointment of having ideals mangled and the not-necessarily-logical need to meet expectations.” Reid deals in ideas with which most of us negotiating the varied demands of contemporary life can identify.

Chris Reid is a visual artist and educator based out of Brandon, Manitoba. Reid completed Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Education degrees from the University of Alberta as well as a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she specialized in painting and drawing. In addition to her artistic practice, Reid has worked as a contemporary art curator and is employed as a Housing Resource Worker for the Brandon Regional Health Authority. She has been the recipient of grants for her art from the Manitoba Arts Council and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Reid has exhibited across Canada and in the United States for more than 25 years, including recent solo exhibitions at the Yukon Arts Centre, Latitude 53 and the Thames Art Gallery. I like to believe I am telling the truth is Chris Reid’s first solo exhibition in Winnipeg. It will travel to the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba later this year.

Gallery 1C03, Oseredok the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba will produce a publication related to this exhibition featuring a critical essay by contemporary art curator and writer Mary Reid. Expected launch date will coincide with the opening of I like to believe I am telling the truth at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba in December of 2012.

Gallery 1C03 and Oseredok gratefully acknowledge financial assistance from The University of Winnipeg, Manitoba Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts and the Wasyl Topolnicky Memorial Foundation Inc. for this project.

Gallery 1C03 hours: Monday – Friday: 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.; Saturday: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Closed Louis Riel Day and Good Friday. Admission is always free and all are welcome!

Image: Chris Reid, Screaming Bread Flees Grain Elevator, 2010, hard pastel on paper, 50” x 60”. Courtesy of the artist.

Gallery 1C03's Partnership with Cinema Politica Celebrated for its Support of Independent Political Film on Campus!

2012-01-20T21:47:00.005-06:00

Check it out in this week's issue of The Uniter.

4 more days to apply!

2012-01-17T12:40:00.003-06:00

Gallery 1C03 will soon be hiring student gallery attendants. Applications must be submitted prior to Friday, January 20 at 4:30 p.m. For more information, check this post.

Gallery 1C03 Now Hiring!

2012-01-06T15:41:00.002-06:00

Happy new year everyone! We here at Gallery 1C03 hope that you had an enjoyable and restful holiday.

Right now Gallery 1C03 is looking to hire 4 - 6 students to work as gallery attendants. The position offers a few hours a week during exhibitions and we work around your class schedule to provide hours that suit you. This is an excellent opportunity for full-time students to gain more exposure to contemporary art, practice their public relations skills and to meet new people, including many artists....all while getting paid!

Please follow this link to the job posting. All applications are due at Human Resources by Friday, January 20 at 4:30 p.m., so don't delay!

Only 1 more week to check out Trending!

2011-11-28T13:28:00.008-06:00

If you haven't seen the latest window intervention for The Ephemerals: Trending, located in the Anthropology Museum windows on the 4th floor of Centennial Hall at UofW, you'd better hurry. The exhibit will only be on display for 1 more week. Above are photos from the intervention which includes a display of Cowichan sweaters - can you tell the difference between the real deal and the imitation?

In relation to this project, we are happy to report that anyone with a UofW Library card can now watch Christine Welsh's film The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters for FREE. Just enquire at the Circulation Desk!

TOMORROW: The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters

2011-11-08T13:56:00.003-06:00

Check out this article from the Globe and Mail on the Coast Salish Knitters. It's an oldie but it connects to issues of appropriation and consumerism.

Meanwhile, come on out to see the film tomorrow night - Wed, Nov. 9 at 7:00 p.m. - at aceartinc., 2nd floor of 290 McDermot Avenue. See you there!

Together as part of the international documentary screening network Cinema Politica, Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA present the film Crude Sacrifice

2011-11-02T17:31:00.012-05:00

WINNIPEG MB, November 2, 2011 –

Together as part of the international documentary screening network Cinema Politica, Gallery 1C03 and the University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA) present the film:

Crude Sacrifice
Directed by Lawrence Carota
Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall
Tuesday, November 15, at 7:00 p.m.

Directed by award-winning film maker Lawrence Carota, Crude Sacrifice (Canada, 2011) was selected for presentation by The University of Winnipeg Aboriginal Students’ Council.

Crude Sacrifice takes a look at how one northern community, Fort Chipewyan, is affected by the exploitation of Canada's rich Tar Sands development, and how Canada is dealing with their concerns. The health of the land and the people living near the world's largest construction project is discussed by leading scientists and the Aboriginal Peoples. Although this town is located near the earth's second largest fresh water delta, they can no longer drink the water, or eat the fish and other game food which sustained them for thousands of years.

From the film’s website:

Passionate and fiercely independent, [Carota] took his film camera to Alberta through all four seasons of the year to allow the audience to experience the cycles of nature first hand.. to go on the river banks, to stand next to the tailing ponds, to see the Tar Sands under development from the air in order to experience the size and scale of the project. He spent weeks living in the northern community of Fort Chipewyan where he got an intimate look at a warm but hurting community full of people trying to cope with losing their way of life. As a cinematographer, he attempted to capture the honesty and beauty of a people along with a way of life which is being destroyed before their eyes. His intention is to showcase the positive nature and spirit of defiance which has allowed them to survive sustainably on the land for thousands of years.

Please stay for discussion after the film, with guest facilitator to be announced.

For more information about Crude Sacrifice, visit: http://www.cinemapolitica.org/film/crude-sacrifice.

For more information about the Cinema Politica network, please visit www.cinemapolitica.org.

All screenings will be open to all audiences – everyone is welcome. Admission is free, but donations to offset the costs of screening the film are welcome. Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall is located on the third floor of Centennial Hall at The University of Winnipeg.

Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA wish to thank Cinema Politica for making it possible for us to participate in this network. We are grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for generously supporting this initiative. We also wish to acknowledge the Council of Canadians for supporting this presentation of Crude Sacrifice.

Image: Scene from Crude Sacrifice by Lawrence Carota.

Gallery 1C03 and aceartinc. present a public film screening: The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters Directed by Christine Welsh

2011-10-25T17:35:00.011-05:00

Gallery 1C03 and aceartinc. present a public film screening:

The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters
Directed by Christine Welsh

Wednesday, November 9, 7:00 p.m.
aceartinc.
2nd floor, 290 McDermot Avenue
Free Admission – Open to all!

This film screening is presented in conjunction with Gallery 1C03's current programming initiative The Ephemerals: Trending. Trending began as a four-day performative embedment on The University of Winnipeg campus by The Ephemerals, an all-female Aboriginal collective of artists and curators. By inserting themselves into the university community, The Ephemerals have explored the trend of Indigenously-influenced clothing and accessories among post-secondary students, encouraging a critical reading of fashion as codified text and highlighting the need for a deeper awareness of its cultural implications. Further supporting this project is an ongoing intervention in the public display windows of the university’s Anthropology Museum, drawing from and responding to the Anthropology Department’s Ethnographic Collection, as well as a blog: www.theephemerals.wordpress.com.

Written and directed by Christine Welsh, The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters (Canada, 2000) draws attention to the identity of the creators of much-loved (and much-replicated) Cowichan sweaters. For almost a century, the Coast Salish knitters of southern Vancouver Island have produced Cowichan sweaters from handspun wool. These distinctive sweaters are known and loved around the world, but the Aboriginal women who make them remain largely invisible. Combining rare archival footage with the voices of three generations of woolworkers, The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters tells the tale of unsung heroines – resourceful women who knit to put food on the table and keep their families alive. This is a story of courage and cultural transformation – a celebration of the threads that connect the past to the future.

Christine Welsh is a Métis filmmaker, feminist and academic in Canada. She has produced, written and directed films for more than 30 years. Welsh's film credits include the 2006 National Film Board of Canada documentary Finding Dawn, about murdered and missing Canadian Aboriginal women. She is a resident of Saltspring Island. Welsh is an Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, where she teaches courses in Indigenous Women’s Studies.

Please stay after the film for some refreshments and discussion!

Gallery 1C03 gratefully acknowledges financial support of The University of Winnipeg and the Manitoba Arts Council for making this program possible. We are also grateful for the support of aceartinc.

Image: Scene from The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters, a film by Christine Welsh. Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada.

Trending review in Uptown

2011-10-25T16:33:00.001-05:00

We're playing a bit of catch up here, but read Sandee Moore's review of Trending in Uptown!

Ephemerals - Maiden Indian at ImagineNATIVE

2011-10-25T13:09:00.003-05:00

The Ephemerals' Maiden Indian film was included in this review of the ImagineNATIVE festival called ImagineNATIVE short films: Ever loud, ever proud. Awesome!

Gallery 1C03 looking for art educators

2011-10-20T12:03:00.003-05:00

Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg is excited about what it does and wants to offer others opportunities to join in. We are presently looking for 1 or 2 people to join our team of volunteer art educators!

Are you interested in visual art?
Are you an Art History or Education student at the University of Winnipeg?
Are you creative and energetic?
Are you interested in gaining valuable experience that will stand out on your resume?

If you answered "yes" to these questions, then please read further!

Gallery 1C03 seeks students to plan and deliver art education workshops during the 2011-12 academic season. Workshops will consist of presenting information about Gallery 1C03 art exhibits to school aged children (grades 1 - 12) and facilitating creative responses to the exhibits. Each workshop is approximately 1 hour in duration.

If you have a background in teaching through the arts or want to develop these skills, please contact Art Curator Jennifer Gibson by calling 786-9253 or by sending an email to j.gibson@uwinnipeg.ca as soon as possible.

Jessica Metcalfe blog

2011-10-17T17:45:00.002-05:00

Thanks to all who came out for Dr. Jessica Metcalfe's lecture on Friday! To keep up with her, check out her blog Beyond Buckskin.

Coats, culture, colonizers and cool

2011-10-17T17:44:00.002-05:00

Check out Colleen Simard's article on fashion choices and colonization in this article from October 8, 2011 Winnipeg Free Press:
Coats, culture, colonizers and cool. She mentions The Ephemerals: Trending too!

Don't Forget to Check Out Dr. Jessica Metcalfe's Lecture Tomorrow!

2011-10-12T22:33:00.006-05:00

Friday, October 14, 12:30 p.m.

Room 2C14 (2nd floor of Centennial Hall)

The University of Winnipeg

Free Admission

For more information, see the post below or check out our Facebook page.

Hope to see you there!

Lecture by Dr. Jessica Metcalfe

2011-10-05T13:46:00.007-05:00

Gallery 1C03 proudly presents

"Threads of Power: Native Designers of High Fashion and Clothing as a Form of Resistance"

A public lecture by Dr. Jessica Metcalfe

Friday, October 14, 12:30 p.m.
Room 2C14 (2^nd floor of Centennial Hall)
The University of Winnipeg
Free Admission

This public lecture is presented as part of Gallery 1C03’s current programming initiative The Ephemerals: Trending. Trending began as a four-day performative embedment on The University of Winnipeg campus by The Ephemerals, an all-female Aboriginal collective of artists and curators. By inserting themselves into the university community, The Ephemerals have explored the trend of Indigenously-influenced clothing and accessories among post-secondary students, encouraging a critical reading of fashion as codified text and highlighting the need for a deeper awareness of its cultural implications. Further supporting this project is an ongoing intervention in the public display windows of the university’s Anthropology Museum, drawing from and responding to the Anthropology Department’s Ethnographic Collection, as well as a blog.

In her lecture “Threads of Power: Native Designers of High Fashion and Clothing as a Form of Resistance”, Dr. Metcalfe will discuss how Native American fashion designers from different generations use clothing as a form of communication and as a way to continue age-old clothing practices, deconstruct stereotypes, subvert the mainstream fashion industry and create new opportunities for Native youth. Dr. Metcalfe’s presentation highlights the work of Lloyd Kiva New (Cherokee), Wendy Ponca (Osage), Virgil Ortiz (Cochiti Pueblo) and various Native American streetwear artists.

Dr. Jessica R. Metcalfe (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) earned her Ph.D. in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona. She previously served as managing editor and contributor to Red Ink Magazine, and has taught courses in Native American Studies, Studio Art, Art History, Literature and Anthropology at tribal colleges and state universities. Her current work focuses on Native fashion design. She has presented at numerous national conferences, lectured at various museums and co-curated several exhibitions.

Gallery 1C03 gratefully acknowledges financial support of The University of Winnipeg and the Manitoba Arts Council for making this program possible. We are also grateful for the support of Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery.

Image: Wendy Ponca (Osage), Ceremonial Attitude for the New Millennium, 1996, mylar, feathers and body paint. Courtesy of the artist.

Gallery 1C03 and the University of Winnipeg Students' Association to screen Exit Through the Gift Shop with Panel Discussion to Follow

2011-09-30T11:15:00.007-05:00

Together as part of the international documentary screening network Cinema Politica, Gallery 1C03 and the University of Winnipeg Students' Association (UWSA) will present the film Exit Through the Gift Shop in Room 2M70 on Thursday, October 6 at 7:00 p.m.

Directed by internationally-renowned street artist Banksy, Exit Through the Gift Shop (UK, 2010) is presented in conjunction with Freestyle V, a week long festival organized by the UWSA where inner city youth, community members and students are invited to learn and create in a highly structured (and artistically driven) programming environment at The University of Winnipeg.
From the film's website:

"This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film-maker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner with wildly unexpected results."

"One of the most provocative films about art ever made, Exit Through the Gift Shop is a fascinating study of low-level criminality, comradeship and incompetence. By turns shocking, hilarious and absurd, this is an enthralling modern-day fairy-tale... with bolt cutters."

Please stay for discussion after the film with panelists Cliff Eyland, local artist, curator and art writer; Stefano Grande, Executive Director of the Downtown Winnipeg BIZ; Pat Lazo, Artistic Director of Graffiti Art Programming; and local artist Brent. Facilitated by UWSA Outreach and Special Projects Coordinator Ted Turner.

For more information about Exit Through the Gift Shop, visit: http://www.cinemapolitica.org/film/exit-through-gift-shop
For more information about the Cinema Politica network, please visit http://www.cinemapolitica.org/

All screenings will be open to all audiences - everyone is welcome. Admission is free, but donations to offset the costs of screening the film are welcome. Room 2M70 is located on the second floor of Manitoba Hall at The University of Winnipeg.

Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA wish to thank Cinema Politica for making it possible to participate in this network. We are gateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for generously supporting this initiative.

Image: Scene from Exit Through the Gift Shop by Banksy.

The Ephemerals in The Uniter & Trending Discussion Tomorrow

2011-09-29T16:15:00.003-05:00

An article on The Ephemerals: Trending project, written by Timothy Dyck, appears in this week's issue of The Uniter.

Meanwhile, don't forget to come to Room 2M71 (2nd floor of Manitoba Hall) at the UofW tomorrow to take in a FREE roundtable discussion with The Ephemerals artists. It starts at 12:30 p.m.!

The Ephemerals: Artists' Roundtable Discussion

2011-09-22T10:29:00.009-05:00

The Ephemerals – Artists’ roundtable discussion

Friday, September 30, 2011 at 12:30 p.m.
Room 2M71 (2^nd floor, Manitoba Hall), The University of Winnipeg

Presented by Gallery 1C03 in conjunction with Culture Days, this roundtable discussion will offer an opportunity for The Ephemerals artists Jaimie Isaac, Niki Little and Jenny Western to reflect publicly on their multi-disciplinary project, Trending, taking place in and around The University of Winnipeg campus between September 6th and December 3rd. The discussion will also provide a chance for audience and community members to raise questions and comments that they may have in relation to the project.

Those following our blog -- see this entry, this one, this one or this one or this one -- know that Trending consists of a four-day performative embedment on issues around fashion and Indigeneity on The University of Winnipeg campus (September 6th - 9th) by The Ephemerals, an all-female Aboriginal collective of artists and curators. By inserting themselves into the university community, The Ephemerals interrogate the trend of Indigenously-influenced clothing and accessories among post-secondary students, encouraging a critical reading of fashion as codified text and highlighting the need for deeper awareness of its cultural implications. Documentation of the performances and information related to the project can also be viewed at The Ephemerals’ blog.

Further supporting this project is an ongoing multi-media intervention in two of the public display windows of the university’s Anthropology Museum (September 6th - December 3rd), drawing from and responding to the Anthropology Department’s Ethnographic Collection. Additional affiliated programming will include a public lecture by Dr. Jessica Metcalfe titled “Threads of Power: Native Designers of High Fashion, and Clothing as a Form of Resistance” on Friday, October 14 at 12:30 p.m. at The University of Winnipeg (Room 2C14) and a public screening of the film “The Story of the Coast Salish Knitters” (directed by Christine Welsh) in early November at Urban Shaman Gallery.

Gallery 1C03, the University of Winnipeg Students' Association and the Politics Students' Society to screen Please Vote for Me.

2011-09-14T10:40:00.004-05:00

In partnership with The University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA), Gallery 1C03 is pleased to be part of the international documentary screening network Cinema Politica as the first Manitoba chapter. Together we will continue to screen several socially and politically resonant films over the course of the 2011/12 academic year.

Our first offering, Please Vote for Me, was selected by the University of Winnipeg Politics Students’ Society to be shown in advance of our provincial election. The screening will take place in Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall on Tuesday, September 20 at 7:00 p.m.

Is democracy a universal value that suits human nature? Do elections inevitably lead to manipulation? Please Vote for Me, directed by Weijun Chen (China, 2007), is a portrait of a society and a town seen through a school, its children and its families. Wuhan is a city about the size of London located in central China. It is here that director Weijun Chen has conducted an experiment in democracy. A Grade 3 class at Evergreen Primary School has their first encounter with democracy by holding an election to select a Class Monitor. Eight-year-olds compete against each other for the coveted position, abetted and egged on by teachers and doting parents. Elections in China take place only within the Communist Party, but recently millions of Chinese voted in their version of Pop Idol. The purpose of Weijun Chen's experiment is to determine how democracy would be received if it came to China. Please Vote for Me is one of ten films selected as part of the Why Democracy? project, which saw interpretations of democracy by 10 film makers from around the world broadcast on 42 television networks in October, 2007, to audiences of more than 300 million people in nearly every country in the world.

Please stay for discussion after the film screening facilitated by Dr. Allen Mills, Professor, Department of Politics, The University of Winnipeg.

For more information about Please Vote for Me, visit: http://www.cinemapolitica.org/screening/uofw/please-vote-me.
For more information about the Cinema Politica network, please visit www.cinemapolitica.org.

All screenings will be open to all audiences – everyone is welcome. Admission is free, but donations to offset the costs of screening the film are welcome. Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall is located on the third floor of Centennial Hall at The University of Winnipeg.

Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA wish to thank Cinema Politica for making it possible for us to participate in this network. We are grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for generously supporting this initiative.

Image: Scene from Please Vote for Me by Weijun Chen.

Trending flash mob photos

2011-09-12T09:16:00.007-05:00

There were tunes blaring from the ghetto blaster, cool duds and face paint. For those who weren't on campus Friday afternoon, here are some highlights from The Ephemerals: Trending flash mob. Thanks again to Scott Benesiinaabandan for the photographs!

Don't forget to check out The Ephemerals' blog for more on this project.

The Uniter's Fashion Streeter Features The Ephemerals

2011-09-09T12:20:00.003-05:00

Check out Jaimie Isaac, member of The Ephemerals, in this week's Fashion Streeter in The Uniter!

Trending Reception Today

2011-09-09T12:01:00.006-05:00

Some photos of The Ephemerals' appearance on CKUW 95.9 FM yesterday and their visit to the Aboriginal Student Services Centre on campus. You can listen to what they had to say by visiting CKUW's archive. Plus you can see more photos here. And don't forget to check The Ephemerals' blog for vid clips and more updates!

TODAY: Please join us for the The Ephemerals: Trending reception in front of Gallery 1C03 this afternoon from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Ephemerals on CKUW today!

2011-09-08T09:37:00.007-05:00

Tune into CKUW 95.9 FM this morning at 11:00 a.m. to hear The Ephemerals.

Meanwhile above are a few shots from yesterday's bake sale, courtesy of Scott Benesiinaabandan. For more, check here.

Bake Sale Today

2011-09-07T12:15:00.005-05:00

Check out The Ephemerals: Trending bake sale in front of Gallery 1C03 today. It's on until all the bannock is gone!

Also check out more photos from day 1 of the performative embedment here. Photography by Scott Benesiinaabandan.

theephemerals.wordpress.com

2011-09-06T16:39:00.004-05:00

That's right, Trending fans....you can get the latest updates on The Ephemerals' new project at The University of Winnipeg by checking out their new blog. Go on, we know you wanna!

Get ready for Trending!

2011-09-02T17:39:00.003-05:00

Only 4 more sleeps until Trending comes to the UofW campus....get ready everyone....it's gonna be amazing!

A Life Collected - extended exhibition dates

2011-09-02T17:35:00.004-05:00

Good news; if you haven't had a chance to check out the exhibition A Life Collected: The Vernon MacKelvie Gift of Canadian Art, it's now on display until October 15 in the Hamilton Galleria and the University Archives, both located in the UofW Library (4th and 5th floors of Centennial Hall). There are some real gems in this exhibition, including the above pictured Bertram Brooker, but also a Paraskeva Clark, Dorothy Knowles, Phililp Surrey, William Winter and much more. Check it out!

Admission to exhibition and opening reception is still free and open to everyone.
Exhibition Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Image: Bertram Brooker, Houses on a Hill, undated, watercolour, 30 x 21.5 cm.

The Ephemerals: Trending, September 6 - December 3, 2011

2011-08-19T11:39:00.006-05:00

Performative embedment (across campus): September 6 - 9

Installation (Anthropology Museum, 4th floor, Centennial Hall): September 6- December 3

Reception (Gallery 1C03): September 9, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Artists' roundtable discussion: September 30, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Gallery 1C03 is pleased to celebrate its 25th anniversary with the first programming project of our 2011-12 academic season, Trending!

Trending is a four-day performative embedment on The University of Winnipeg campus by The Ephemerals, an all-female Aboriginal collective of artists and curators. By inserting themselves into the university community, The Ephemerals will interrogate the trend of Indigenously-influenced clothing and accessories among post-secondary students, encouraging a critical reading of fashion as codified text and highlighting the need for a deeper awareness of its cultural implications. Images from performances and information related to the project will be uploaded to Gallery 1C03’s website as the embedment progresses. Further supporting this project will be an ongoing intervention in the public display windows of the university’s Anthropology Museum, drawing from and responding to the Anthropology Department’s Ethnographic Collection. Additional affiliated programming will include a roundtable discussion with the artists, a public lecture and a public film screening.

The Ephemerals is an emerging collective of Aboriginal women based in Winnipeg, Manitoba who are interested in curatorial and creative research. The collective was established by founding members Jaimie Isaac, Niki Little and Jenny Western to function as an outlet to foster and motivate artistic production within their individual practices and to develop collaborative projects that revolve around contemporary Indigenous art. Jaimie Isaac is an artist, curator and writer engaged in the arts on both a local and national level through her work with boards, collectives, juries and artist-run-centres. Isaac holds a Bachelor of in Art History of Art and an Arts and Cultural Management Certificate, both from The University of Winnipeg. She is currently a pursing a Master of Arts in Creative and Indigenous Studies at UBC Okanagan. Niki Little is an artist/observer who is interested in artistic and curatorial strategies that explore the reasoning of identity, culture and social exchanges. Little has studied at The University of Manitoba, the National Screen Institute and the Camberwell College of Art in London, UK. Jenny Western is a curator, writer and educator who holds an undergraduate degree in History from The University of Winnipeg and a Masters in Art History and Curatorial Practice from York University in Toronto. One of Western’s recent projects includes co-curating Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, a multi-venue group exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art from around the globe.

Gallery 1C03 gratefully acknowledges financial assistance from The University of Winnipeg and the Manitoba Arts Council for this project. We are also grateful for the support of the Anthropology Department of The University of Winnipeg, the University of Winnipeg Students' Association and CKUW 95.9 FM.

All programming is free and open to everyone!

https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/art-gallery-the-ephemerals-trending

A Life Collected: The Vernon MacKelvie Gift of Canadian Art

2011-06-02T15:10:00.004-05:00

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 16, 2011, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. at The University of Winnipeg Library

A public exhibition highlighting exciting works recently donated to The University of Winnipeg’s permanent art collection by alumnus Vernon MacKelvie (BA ’44) will open Thursday, June 16 at 3:00 pm. The works, all of which are by Canadian artists, will be extended until October 15, 2011 in the Hamilton Galleria and University Archives, both located in The University of Winnipeg Library (4th & 5th floors of Centennial Hall).

Though MacKelvie reveres the arts and has been attending exhibitions and collecting artworks for more than sixty years, he does not count himself as an art expert but, rather, an art appreciator. He comments: “You don’t have to be wealthy to build a fine art collection. You just have to have good taste and educate yourself.”

Vernon MacKelvie’s life and voice as a collector speak to the viewer through the works presented in A Life Collected. Of the selected twenty-four pieces on display, all are by Canadian artists, many of whom practiced on the Prairies and in Ontario and Québec. These were the places between which MacKelvie divided his time, and where he sought out new images by Canadian artists to add to his collection.

Featured artists such as Bertram Brooker, Paraskeva Clark, Betty Dimock, Dorothy Knowles and Philip Surrey represent various styles and movements of the last six decades of Canadian art. MacKelvie’s total gift of fifty pieces is a fine complement to the University’s permanent collection, whose purview is work created by established twentieth-century and contemporary Manitoba and Canadian artists.

A Life Collected is curated by Alexis Kinloch. Both the curator and collector will be in attendance at the opening reception.

The University of Winnipeg Art Curator Department wishes to thank The University of Winnipeg Foundation and the History of Art Programme for their support of this exhibition project. We also gratefully acknowledge the Museums Assistance Program, Department of Canadian Heritage.

Admission to exhibition and opening reception is free and open to everyone.
Exhibition Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Image: Bertram Brooker, Houses on a Hill, undated, watercolour, 30 x 21.5 cm.

Prairie Excellence Panel Discussion

2011-05-18T16:56:00.008-05:00

Thursday, May 26 at 7:00 p.m. Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall (3rd floor of Centennial Hall), University of Winnipeg
ADMISSION IS FREE

To accompany the Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Craft Councils’ presentation of the group exhibition Prairie Excellence at Gallery 1C03, the Manitoba Craft Council, in partnership with Gallery 1C03, has organized a panel discussion with Prairie Excellence Selection Committee Member Helen Delacretaz and Prairie Excellence artists Tibor Bodi, Grace Nickel and Sue Sutherland.

Prairie Excellence is a juried exhibition representing the very best of contemporary fine craft from the Prairies. Featuring pieces in various media by 35 artists, the show is a unique and balanced blend of work from each of the Prairie Provinces. While some of the featured artists, like Winnipeg’s Grace Nickel, Kathryne Koop and Keith Oliver, are well established, the exhibit also showcases craft artists who are relatively new to the scene. This is a unique opportunity to view the work of emerging, mid-career and established artists in one place.

The panel discussion will focus on the state of contemporary craft practice on the prairies and how the work in Prairie Excellence contributes to this dialogue. The three artist panelists will explore how their work reflects a prairie aesthetic, how it pushes the boundaries of their chosen medium and how they balance questions of form/function with the conceptual aspect of their work. Selection Committee Member Helen Delacretaz will consider trends and shifts in the contemporary craft scene more generally and how these developments might apply to works in Prairie Excellence in particular.

Prairie Excellence has made Winnipeg its third stop in a tour of Western Canada after presentations in both Edmonton and Saskatoon, showing at Gallery 1C03 (1st floor of Centennial Hall at The University of Winnipeg) from April 28 - May 28, 2011.

Admission to gallery and panel discussion is free and open to everyone.
Regular Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday from noon until 5:00 p.m.

Image: Tibor Bodi, Voice of America 1956, 2009, cast glass, forged steel and metal (tin smith), 24" x 11" x 9". Courtesy of the artist.

Review of Prairie Excellence

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Check out Alison Gillmor's review of Prairie Excellence in yesterday's Winnipeg Free Press. The show will continue at Gallery 1C03 until May 28 and there will be a free panel discussion related to the exhibition on May 26 at 7 p.m. at Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall.

Prairie Excellence Opening

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Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Alberta Crafts Councils present Prairie Excellence

at Gallery 1C03

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 28 from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. at Gallery 1C03

Admission is free and all are welcome!

For more information please visit: http://www.prairie-excellence.ca/

Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta Crafts Councils to exhibit Prairie Excellence at Gallery 1C03, April 28 – May 28, 2011

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Prairie Excellence is the very best of contemporary fine craft from the Prairies distilled into one exhibition. Featuring work by 35 artists (selected from 163 submissions) the show is a unique and balanced blend of work from each of the Prairie Provinces. While some of the featured artists, like Winnipeg’s Grace Nickel, Kathryne Koop, and Keith Oliver, are well established, the exhibit also showcases craft artists who are relatively new to the scene. This is a unique opportunity to view the work of emerging, mid-career and established artists under one roof.

The “call for entry” for Prairie Excellence was widely distributed throughout Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta in late 2009. The response was both exciting and daunting—276 pieces were submitted by 163 artists. A selection committee consisting of one curator from each province was assembled. In their first round of review based on submitted photos, resumes, and print material, the committee selected 50 pieces. An in-person selection stage was held at the Alberta Craft Council Gallery in Edmonton and 35 pieces were eventually chosen for the exhibition. The committee was challenged to look at work in all craft media, ranging from jewellery to large sculptural pieces. They discussed and sometimes argued about issues of conceptual, creative and technical excellence. They were further challenged to choose recipients for best of province awards, and recipients for best emerging, mid-career and established artist awards. To reflect the breadth of the submissions, the committee members also opted for an honourable mention in each of the emerging, mid-career, and established artist categories.

The show marks an exciting new collaboration between the Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta Craft Councils. These organizations exist to promote the work of craft artists from their own province by developing the careers of new and veteran artists and by increasing public awareness about great art being created in our midst. By working together, the prairie Craft Councils can take this mission even further.

Manitoba artists in this exhibition include Grace Nickel, Kathryne Koop, Robert Wilson, Sue Sutherland, Teresa Burrows, Dave Wasylyshen, Jordan van Sewell, Crystal Nykoluk, Keith Oliver, Nancy Hall, and Tibor Bodi.

Prairie Excellence will make Winnipeg its third stop in a tour of Western Canada, showing at Gallery 1C03 (University of Winnipeg) from April 28-May 28, 2011. An opening reception is planned for Thursday, April 28, 5:00 - 7:00 pm, with many of the Manitoba artists in attendance. A panel discussion will take place on Thursday, May 26 at 7:00 p.m. in Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall.

Image: Robert Wilson, Sliced Antler Vessel, Antler, pine form, casting resin, dark roast coffee, 2009

Minutia reviews

2011-03-28T13:42:00.004-05:00

Check out 3 reviews on Gallery 1C03's current exhibition Minutia: Alison Gillmor in the Winnipeg Free Press, Sandee Moore in Uptown Magazine, and Emily Hurtado in The Manitoban.

Stop by the show to have a look for yourself. Exhibition is on until April 2 and there is still space on the walls to contribute to the dialogue!

Cinema Politica: Reel Bad Arabs

2011-03-14T10:12:00.006-05:00

Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall (Third Floor, University of Winnipeg) on Thursday, March 17 at 7 p.m.

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People

Sut Jhally / USA / 2006 / 60 min

This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, the film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs--from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding "terrorists"--along the way offering devastating insights into the origin of these stereotypic images, their development at key points in US history, and why they matter so much today.

Shaheen shows how the persistence of these images over time has served to naturalize prejudicial attitudes toward Arabs and Arab culture, in the process reinforcing a narrow view of individual Arabs and the effects of specific US domestic and international policies on their lives. By inspiring critical thinking about the social, political, and basic human consequences of leaving these Hollywood caricatures unexamined, the film challenges viewers to recognize the urgent need for counter-narratives that do justice to the diversity and humanity of Arab people and the reality and richness of Arab history and culture.

Reel Bad Arabs was selected for screening by The University of Winnipeg Muslim Students Association. Discussion following the film will be facilitated by Shahina Siddiqui, Executive Director of Islamic Social Services.

For more information about Reel Bad Arabs please visit: http://www.cinemapolitica.org/node/2094 For more information about the Cinema Politica Network please visit: www.cinemapolitica.org.

All are welcome to this free event! Donations will be accepted in order to facilitate future Cinema Politica events at The University of Winnipeg.

Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA wish to thank Cinema Politica for making it possible for us to participate in this network. We are always grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for generously supporting this initiative.

TONIGHT -- Cinema Politica: Water on the Table

2011-03-10T13:26:00.003-06:00

Together as part of the international documentary screening network Cinema Politica, Gallery 1C03 and The University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA) are pleased to present the film Water on the Table at Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall (Third Floor, University of Winnipeg) on Thursday, March 10 at 7 p.m.

Water on the Table
Is water a commercial good like running shoes or Coca-Cola? Or, is water a human right like air?
Liz Marshall / Canada / 2010 / 79 minutes

Water On The Table is a character-driven, social-issue documentary by Liz Marshall that explores Canada’s relationship to its fresh water, arguably its most precious natural resource. The film asks the question: is water a commercial good like running shoes or Coca-Cola? Or, is water a human right like air?

Water On The Table features Maude Barlow, who is considered an “international water-warrior” for her crusade to have water declared a human right. ”Water must be declared a public trust and a human right that belongs to the people, the ecosystem and the future, and preserved for all time and practice in law. Clean water must be delivered as a public service, not a profitable commodity.”

The film intimately captures the public face of Maude Barlow as well as the unscripted woman behind the scenes. The camera shadows her life on the road in Canada and the United States over the course of a year as she leads an unrelenting schedule. From 2008 – 2009 Barlow served as the U.N. Senior Advisor on Water to Father Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, President of the 63rd Session of the United Nations.

In conjunction with Bottled Water Free Day that takes place on March 10, 2011, Cinema Politica at The University of Winnipeg invites students, faculty, staff, and community to a free screening of Water on the Table. The evening will include a special video message to the campus and community from Maude Barlowe. Discussion following the film will be moderated by, Dr. Mary LeMaitre, Winnipeg Water Watch Chair.

All are welcome to this free event! Donations will be accepted in order to facilitate future Cinema Politica events at The University of Winnipeg.

Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA wish to thank Cinema Politica for making it possible for us to participate in this network. We are always grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for generously supporting this initiative.

Image: Maude Barlowe, from Water on the Table by Liz Marshall

New location for Robert Kelly artist talk

2011-03-03T17:37:00.002-06:00

Please note that Robert Kelly's public artist talk on his conceptual bookwork installation "Minutia" will now take place in Gallery 1C03 tomorrow (Friday, March 3) at 12:30 p.m. Come on out -- he's a great speaker!

Robert Kelly Minutia

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Gallery 1C03 presents

Robert Kelly

Minutia
March 3 – April 2, 2011

Artist-led workshop in collaboration with Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts: “Minutia: The Books I Didn’t Write – Generating Thoughts, Ideas and Forms in a Digital Age”, March 2, 7 – 9 p.m. at Gallery 1C03
Opening reception: March 3, 4 – 6 p.m. at Gallery 1C03
Artist’s lecture in collaboration with Alliance for Arts Education in Manitoba: “The Creative Disposition: Understanding Creativity Competencies and Creative Maturity”, March 3 at 7:30 p.m. at Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall (3^rd floor, Centennial Hall)
Artist’s talk: March 4 at 12:30 p.m. in Room 2C14 (2^nd floor, Centennial Hall)
Artist-led workshop in collaboration with The Writers’ Collective: “The Book of The and Another Book of The: Idea Generation – The Indispensable Core of Creativity”, March 5, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. at Gallery 1C03

Calgary-based artist Robert Kelly’s love of language led him to create this conceptual installation consisting of eleven distinct books of concrete poetry displayed on lecterns. A piece whose initial imposing appearance belies the artist’s often playful manipulation of text, the bookworks are based on the eleven words from the sentence fragment “the first time I heard the sound of a page turning.” Kelly’s point is to consider how awareness of minutiae is fundamental to meaningfulness. Minutia demonstrates this by isolating and recontextualizing components from the English language to create an arena in which to explore meaning. Kelly’s installation uses words, letters and sounds in his books to explore the meaningless/meaningful dynamic and challenge our level of awareness.

A special interactive component of the installation is an invitation for gallery visitors to respond to the texts in Minutia using graphite supplied by Gallery 1C03 to write or sketch their thoughts directly on the gallery walls.

Robert Kelly works in Calgary as a conceptual artist and educator. He practices in various media including painting, printmaking, installation and performance. Kelly’s themes are as diverse as his media, as revealed by two bodies of work which he continues to develop: White Noise is a new series of public installations and events focused on the threshold between passive tolerance and action, while Concept of Raven is a group of large-scale painted constructions that use the raven to explore spiritual, cultural and ecological perspectives. Kelly teaches creativity theory and practice, studio art and design and curriculum theory and design for the faculties of art and education at the University of Calgary. The editor of two recent publications on creativity as a primary rationale for education, Kelly has delivered many lectures and workshops on the subject of creativity and educational practice and serves as a consultant for the new Fine Arts Curriculum Initiative for the Alberta Ministry of Education. Kelly has presented his art in solo and group exhibitions across Alberta and in British Columbia and Ontario. Since its initial presentation at the Nickle Arts Museum in Calgary, Kelly’s conceptual bookwork installation Minutia has also been shown at the Maltwood Gallery in Victoria and at the McIntosh Gallery in London, Ontario. Minutia is Robert Kelly’s first solo exhibition in Manitoba.

Gallery 1C03 gratefully acknowledges financial assistance from The University of Winnipeg, Manitoba Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Regular gallery hours: Monday – Friday: 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.; Saturday: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Admission to Gallery, reception, artist's lecture and artist’s talk are free and open to all. Pre-registration is required for workshops and registration fees apply. Contact Platform at outreach@platformgallery.org or The Writers’ Collective at writerscollective@uwinnipeg.ca for details.

For information, contact: Jennifer Gibson, Curator, Gallery 1C03

1^st floor, Centennial Hall, The University of Winnipeg

515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg MB R3B 2E9
204.786.9253 | j.gibson@uwinnipeg.ca

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2nd unSacred review & 2 days left

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Sandee Moore responds to unSacred in today's Uptown mag. You've got 2 more days to see the show if you haven't already!

unSacred review

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Have a look at Alison Gillmor's review of Gallery 1C03's current exhibition unSacred in today's Winnipeg Free Press.

Cinema Politica: Mommy Mommy

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Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall on Tuesday, February 15 at 7 p.m.

Experience the trials and tribulations of a lesbian couple from Quebec on their emotional journey to becoming adoptive parents.

Sylvie Rosenthal / Canada / 2007 / 48 min

We Are Family, the quintessential gay anthem, has taken on new meaning in gay districts and liberal suburbs across North America as more and more gay and lesbian couples choose prams over parties. Yes, the most liberated homosexuals in history are becoming parents! But even in places like Quebec, one of the few places in the world to have legalized both gay marriage and adoptions, things aren't as easy as they may seem. Produced by Rezolution Pictures in association with CBC Newsworld, the documentary MOMMY, MOMMY follows Linda and Mona, a lesbian couple from Quebec, on their quest to create the family they've always dreamed about. Linda and Mona embark upon a five year long emotional rollercoaster ride where they're confronted by the complications of access to IVF, and bans against same-sex couples adopting from overseas. After finding a birth mother in the US who welcomes lesbian parents, Linda and Mona find a final, devastating roadblock thrown up by the Christian-based adoption agency and their own government. The same one that legalized same-sex adoptions! The couple refuse to give up, and Linda and Mona's dream finally comes true in the most unexpected way.

Mommy Mommy was selected for screening by the LGBT* Centre at The University of Winnipeg and is presented in conjunction with Gender Week on campus. A discussion will follow the film facilitated by Kristine Barr, lawyer, local school trustee and human rights advocate.

All screenings will be open to all audiences – everyone is welcome. Our screenings will always be free, but donations to offset costs are encouraged. Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall is located on the third floor of Centennial Hall at The University of Winnipeg.

Image: Scene from Mommy Mommy by Sylvie Rosenthal

Cinema Politica: Waterlife

2011-01-27T10:53:00.003-06:00

For our third screening this term, Cinema Politica at The University of Winnipeg (a partnership between Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA) is pleased to present the film Waterlife at Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall on Tuesday, February 1 at 7 p.m.

The Great Lakes are changing and something is not quite right with the water.

Waterlife (Canada, 2009) by Kevin McMahon is an NFB film that tells the story of the Great Lakes and the bodies of water that flow into them. The Great Lakes are under attack from toxins, waste, dropping water levels and invasive species, leaving the precious fresh water closer to destruction daily. These great bodies of water contain 20 per cent of the last huge supply of fresh water on Earth. They are on the verge of ecological collapse. Something must be done to save our only fresh water. People must become educated about this important issue.

Filled with fascinating characters and stunning imagery, Waterlife is an epic cinematic poem about the beauty of water and the dangers of taking it for graned.

The film is narrated by The Tragically Hip's Gord Downie and features music by Sam Roberts, Sufian Stevens, Sigur Ros, Robbie Robertson and Brian Eno.

Waterlife was selected for screening by The University of Winnipeg Student Association group EcoPIA and is presented as part of Grass Routes: A Sustainability Festival which takes place on campus January 31 - February 4. A discussion will follow the film facilitated by Dr. Eva Pip of the Department of Biology at The University of Winnipeg.

All screenings are open to everyone and are free. However, we do encourage donations to offset costs. Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall is located on the third floor of Centennial Hall at The University of Winnipeg.

We are grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for their generous support of the Cinema Politica network.

Cinema Politica: Art and Apathy

2011-01-23T19:53:00.003-06:00

Art and Apathy directed by independent film maker Jessica Habie documents the relationship between art and social change in Israel and Palestine. Despite the way mainstream media portrays the conflict in the Middle East, the artists in this film produce work that provokes dialogue. Through their art, the film examines political and social elements in the Middle East that are often oversimplified by media. As a result, political ideologies and historical structures become clearer. The artist’s works inspire alternative perspectives transcending political rhetoric.

Art and Apathy was selected for screening by the Hillel Students Association. A discussion will follow the film facilitated by Dr. Angela Failler of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at The University of Winnipeg.

For more information about Art and Apathy, please visit: http://www.artandapathyfilms.com/. For more information about the Cinema Politica network, please visit www.cinemapolitica.org.

Image: Scene from Art and Apathy by Jessica Habie.

Scott Benesiinaabandan (stephens) "unSacred"

2011-01-10T17:46:00.002-06:00

Gallery 1C03 presents

Scott Benesiinaabandan (stephens)
unSacred

January 20 - February 19, 2011

Opening reception: Thursday, January 20 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
(Gallery 1C03)

Public artist talk: Friday, January 21 from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
(Room 2C14)

Gallery 1C03 is proud to present unSacred, Scott Benesiinaabandan’s first solo exhibition. unSacred will include new and recent digital images and a single channel video installation that draw, in part, upon research the artist conducted while studying at The University of Winnipeg. unSacred explores liminality through an investigation of the Windigokaan, a contrary figure in traditional Anishinabe society.

Operating on the fringe of traditional Anishinabe culture, the Windigokaan represents the opposite of accepted norms. Benesiinaabandan contends that, like clowns or misfits in other cultures, Windigokaan use their backwardness to teach others and that their contrary nature represents a powerful symbol that has received little attention to date, both within and outside of Anishinabe society. His landscape studies suggest the imagined physical space from which contrariness might originate and his depictions of material manifestations of the Windigokaan will open discussion about this sacred society and the importance of deviant cultural figures. unSacred is co-presented as a satellite exhibition of Plug In ICA's Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, a large-scale exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art from around the world that serves as the banner project for Winnipeg's Cultural Capital of Canada 2010 Program (see http://www.artsforall.ca/ for more information).

Scott Benesiinaabandan (stephens) is an emerging Anishinabe artist based in Winnipeg who works in photography, printmaking and video, among other media. Benesiinaabandan obtained a BA in Psychology and Religious Studies from The University of Winnipeg (2002) and has completed mentorships and workshops with Manitoba Printmakers Association (Martha Street Studio) and Aboriginal Film Training. During the summer of 2010, Benesiinaabandan also carried out an international residency at Context Gallery in Derry, Ireland. In the past four years, Benesiinaabandan has been awarded grants from the Manitoba Arts Council and the Winnipeg Arts Council for his artistic work. Although Benesiinaabandan has taken part in several group exhibitions across Canada and in the United States, most notably in Subconscious City at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2008, unSacred represents his first solo exhibition.

Gallery 1C03 will produce a publication related to this exhibition featuring essays by Dr. Mark Ruml, Department of Religion and Culture at The University of Winnipeg, and Independent Curator Jaime Isaac. Expected date of release is Spring 2010.

Gallery 1C03 gratefully acknowledges financial assistance from The University of Winnipeg, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Cultural Capital of Canada 2010 and Plug In ICA for this project. We are also grateful for the support of the Aboriginal Student Services Centre at The University of Winnipeg.

Cinema Politica: Being Human

2011-01-07T10:51:00.005-06:00

Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA are back with another academic term full of film screenings thanks to our membership with the international film screening network Cinema Politica.

Our first screening of the term takes place Wednesday, January 12 at 7 p.m. in Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall (3rd floor of Centennial Hall at The University of Winnipeg). We will present Being Human, directed by Denys Desjardins (Canada, 2005, French with English subtitles), a film that explores the public education system.

Being Human enters the daily lives of "problem cases" at a Montreal secondary school that sits at the bottom of the school performance rankings. Desjardins sweeps away preconceptions about the quality of teaching in disadvantaged neighbourhoods and the alleged deliquency of the kids who live there. Being Human is a subtle, captivating film that gives new impetus to the debate over public education. It is a far reaching examination of student life that stimulates reflection on the role of school in our society and asks how willing we are to support and finance the school system so that it will not be merely a factory churning out parts for the social machine.

Being Human was selected for screening by the Coordinators of the UWSA's Peer Support Program. A discussion will follow the film facilitated by Donna Copsey-Haydey from the Faculty of Education at The University of Winnipeg.

The screening will be open to everyone and admission is free, although we do encourage donations to help cover our costs.

Gallery Attendants Needed!

2011-01-05T09:40:00.003-06:00

Happy new year everyone! We here at Gallery 1C03 hope that you had an enjoyable and restful holiday.

Right now Gallery 1C03 has a job opportunity available for one or two students to work as a gallery attendant. The position offers a few hours a week during exhibitions and we work around your class schedule to provide hours that suit you. This is an excellent opportunity for full-time students to gain more exposure to contemporary art on campus and to meet new people, including many artists!

Please follow this link to the job posting. All applications are due at Human Resources by Tuesday, January 11 at 4:30 p.m., so don't delay!

Photos from Clint Enns artist talk

2010-11-26T16:42:00.005-06:00

Thanks to all who came out for Clint Enns' talk today! For those who didn't make it, here's a tiny peek at what you missed; check out this link on facebook for more snapshots: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=251369&id=23472162878. Don't forget to take in the many send+receive events still happening in the city this weekend and keep in mind that Clint's show is up in 1C03 until Dec. 11.

Public artist talk with Clint Enns tomorrow

2010-11-25T14:40:00.003-06:00

Just a reminder that Clint Enns will deliver a FREE public artist talk tomorrow (Friday, November 26) at 12:30 p.m. in Gallery 1C03 about his current installation Prepare to Qualify, now showing in 1C03 as part of send+receive: festival of sound.

Also, check out Sandee Moore's review of Prepare to Qualify in today's Uptown magazine.

send+receive: a festival of sound in partnership with Gallery 1C03 presents

2010-11-17T22:27:00.010-06:00

Prepare to Qualify

An installation by Clint Enns

November 23 - December 11, 2010

at Gallery 1C03

Public artist’s talk: Friday, November 26 at 12:30 p.m. in the Gallery

A circuit bent Atari filled with self-doubt struggles to qualify as "good" or "valid" art.

Clint Enns is a video artist and filmmaker from Winnipeg, Manitoba, whose work primarily deals with moving images created with broken and/or outdated technologies. His work has shown both nationally and internationally in installations, festival screenings, alternative spaces and micro-cinemas. He has recently completed a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Manitoba, and his interests include model theory of rings and modules, structuralist film, destructuralist video, and mathematics in art.

send + receive is an international festival in Winnipeg that advances the discipline of sound art, and is one of the few annual media arts festivals in North America focusing exclusively on sound-based work. It has become an invaluable opportunity for showcasing the innovative work of Manitoban, Canadian and international artists. send + receive addresses the need for a critical and intimate platform for audio based art. With feedback from the public, collaborating arts groups, and artists, send + receive meets the creative and technical needs of professional artists. This year’s festival will be presented at various venues across Winnipeg from November 23 – 28, 2010.

For more information about the festival, check out http://www.sendandreceive.org/

The Garden screens tonight at E-G Hall on campus

2010-11-16T17:00:00.004-06:00

Together as part of the international documentary screening network Cinema Politica, Gallery 1C03 and The University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA) are pleased to present the film The Garden at Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall tonight at 7 p.m.

The fourteen-acre community garden at 41st and Alameda in South Central Los Angeles is the largest of its kind in the United States. Started as a form of healing after the devastating L.A. riots in 1992, the South Central Farmers have since created a miracle in one of the country’s most blighted neighborhoods. Growing their own food. Feeding their families. Creating a community.

But now, bulldozers are poised to level their 14-acre oasis.

Directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy (USA, 2008), The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of this urban farm to the polished marble of City Hall. Mostly immigrants from Latin America, from countries where they feared for their lives if they were to speak out, we watch them organize, fight back, and demand answers: Why was the land sold to a wealthy developer for millions less than fair-market value? Why was the transaction done in a closed-door session of the LA City Council? Why has it never been made public? And the powers-that-be have the same response: “The garden is wonderful, but there is nothing more we can do.”
If everyone told you nothing more could be done, would you give up?

The Garden was selected for screening by the Coordinators of the UWSA Food Bank Program. A discussion will follow after the film facilitated by special guest Kathryn McKenzie of the Spence Neighbourhood Association.

All screenings will be open to all audiences – everyone is welcome. Our screenings will always be free, but donations to offset costs are welcome. Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall is located on the third floor of Centennial Hall at The University of Winnipeg.

Opening of Chronochroma 6 by Rodney LaTourelle on campus

2010-11-09T11:15:00.005-06:00

Rodney LaTourelle's site-specific public art installation "Chronochroma 6" was officially opened yesterday at The University of Winnipeg's Centennial Hall - Duckworth Centre 3rd floor corridor, with the Winnipeg-born/Berlin-based artist in attendance.
This project was the brainchild of Dr. Serena Keshavjee, Coordinator of the University's History of Art program and tireless advocate for the recognition of the University's Centennial Hall as a significant example of modernist architecture.
The University is pleased to acknowledge Number TEN Architectural Group as the title sponsor for this installation.
When you make your next trip to campus, be sure to check out "Chronochroma 6"!

Gerry Kopelow

2010-10-30T12:26:00.007-05:00

Rodney LaTourelle Installation

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What was once a dark dingy hallway joining Centennial Hall and the Duckworth Centre on campus is now a jubilant experience of colour! This project was spear-headed by Dr. Serena Keshavjee. Rumour has it that the official opening of this installation will take place on November 8 at 1:30 p.m. with the artist in attendance!

Artwork of the Week!

2010-10-29T15:20:00.004-05:00

Artwork of the Week!
Week 20:

Jackson Beardy (1944-1984)
Sturgeon Clan
1979
Silkscreen

Cree artist Jackson Beardy was born on the Garden Hill First Nation at Island Lake, Manitoba. Torn away from his family at a young age, Beardy was sent to residential school in Portage la Prairie. Subsequently, he studied art at Tech-Voc High School and at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. In the mid-1960s, Beardy returned to northern Manitoba to collect the stories of his ancestors which he then depicted in his art. His first solo exhibition was held at The University of Winnipeg in 1967, but eventually he participated in group and solo shows at major public galleries across Canada and internationally. Beardy’s mature images, including Sturgeon Clan, express important cosmological and spiritual concepts such as balance in nature, regeneration and growth, and the interdependence of all things. The colours and figures employed in his artworks are often symbolic: here, turquoise blue signifies a link between the spirit world and the actual world and the sturgeon itself represents Beardy’s clan, who were traditionally teachers and healers.

Kopelow artist talk

2010-10-29T10:38:00.004-05:00

Thanks to all who came out to Salon Night at Platform last night with Gerry Kopelow! Now a few photos from his artist talk on Monday....be sure to read Helen Delacretaz' response to Where the Buddha Walked when you're at the gallery!

Calling all photographers -- Salon Night at Platform tonight!

2010-10-28T16:50:00.005-05:00

Check out the front cover of today's Uniter for an image from Gerry Kopelow's current show in Gallery 1C03 "Where the Buddha Walked". Exhibition is up until November 20.
Photographers: bring some of your recent works and join us tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Platform Gallery (121-100 Arthur Street) for Salon Night crits with Gerry!

Gerry Kopelow

2010-10-15T17:19:00.004-05:00

The University of Winnipeg presents a double solo exhibition on campus:

GERRY KOPELOW
Where the Buddha Walked (Gallery 1C03)
Forty Years Ago Today (Hamilton Galleria & University Archives)

October 21 – November 20, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, October 21, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.(Gallery 1C03)
Public artist talk: Monday, October 25, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
(Manitoba Boardroom, Room 2M70, 2nd floor of Manitoba Hall)
Salon Night: Thursday, October 28 at 7:30 p.m.
(Platform: Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, 121-100 Arthur Street)

In a double solo exhibition on campus, The University of Winnipeg will present two distinct bodies of work created by Winnipeg photographer Gerry Kopelow. While Where The Buddha Walked and Forty Years Ago Today tackle different subjects and are separated in time by four decades, they are connected as integral moments in Kopelow's artistic career. Forty Years Ago Today consists of black and white shots of Canadian youth culture from 1969-70, taking viewers back to the origins of Kopelow's photographic practice. Capturing spontaneous moments of the youth hippie scene of the day, the emerging photographer worked in the tradition of W. Eugene Smith and Henri Cartier-Bresson. These images will be shown in the Hamilton Galleria and University Archives, both located in The University of Winnipeg’s Library.

Kopelow's photographic pursuit of the “decisive moment” in the late-1960s indirectly led him to study Eastern meditational practices and, ultimately, the methods of mental cultivation invented and taught by the historical Buddha. For years, Kopelow has pursued the meditative life that he was introduced to by his meticulous approach to photography. In 2006 and 2007, Kopelow found himself travelling to India to visit historical sites associated with the life of the Buddha: the places where he is said to have been born, achieved his realizations, taught, meditated and died. The results of Kopelow's pilgrimmage are the subjects of the photographs in Where the Buddha Walked, which will be presented at Gallery 1C03.

Gerry Kopelow is an internationally published photographer, author and educator. As an emerging artist in the late-1960s, his photographic work received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Film Board of Canada. Kopelow subsequently established himself as an award winning commercial photographer, producing projects for various corporate, institutional and government clients. His writing and photographs have appeared in professional journals and his books on photography are widely respected as definitive works in the field. He has lectured and delivered workshops at various academic institutions including the University of Florida, The Georgia Institute of Technology, The Pratt Institute and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He also teaches architectural photography regularly at the Cooper Union in New York. Kopelow's most recent publication is All Our Changes: Images from the Sixties Generation, Photographs by Gerry Kopelow (2009, University of Manitoba Press) and reproduces photographs that will be presented in Forty Years Ago Today. Where The Buddha Walked and Forty Years Ago Today are the first public solo presentations of Kopelow's non-commercial photography in nearly four decades. Gallery 1C03 gratefully acknowledges the partnership of Platform: Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts for hosting Gerry Kopelow at their Salon Night event.

Contact:
Jennifer Gibson, Curator, Gallery 1C03
The University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9
Ph: 204.786.9253
F: 204.774.4134
E: j.gibson@uwinnipeg.ca
http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/gerry-kopelow
http://gallery1c03.blogspot.com/

Regular Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday, noon - 4 p.m.
Saturday: 1 - 4 p.m.
Closed Remembrance Day

Admission is free to all events and all are welcome!

Cinema Politica: Club Native

2010-10-15T17:17:00.003-05:00

Gallery 1C03 & The University of Winnipeg Students’ Association will screen Club Native
WINNIPEG MB, October 13, 2010

Together as part of the international documentary screening network Cinema Politica, Gallery 1C03 and The University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA) are pleased to present the film Club Native at Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall on Tuesday, October 19 at 7 p.m.

Written and directed by Tracey Deer (NFB, 2008), Club Native is a candid and deeply moving look at the pain, confusion and frustration suffered by many First Nations people as they struggle for the most important right of all: the right to belong.

On the Mohawk reserve of Kahnawaké, located just outside the city of Montréal, there are two firm but unspoken rules drummed into every member of the community: Do not marry a white person and do not have a child with a white person. The potential consequences of ignoring these rules – loss of membership on the reserve, for yourself and your child – are clear, and for those who incur them, devastating. Break the rules, and you also risk being perceived as having betrayed the Mohawk Nation by diluting the "purity" of the bloodline.

In Club Native, filmmaker Tracey Deer uses Kahnawaké, her hometown, as a lens to probe deeply into the history and contemporary reality of Aboriginal identity. Following the stories of four women, she reveals the exclusionary attitudes that divide the community and many others like it across Canada. Deer traces the roots of the problem, from the advent of the highly discriminatory Indian Act through the controversy of Bill C31, up to the present day, where membership on the reserve is determined by a council of Mohawk elders, whose rulings often appear inconsistent. And with her own home as a poignant case study, she raises a difficult question faced by people of many ethnicities across the world: What roles do bloodline and culture play in determining identity?

Club Native was selected for screening by the Aboriginal Student Council at The University of Winnipeg. Special guest Dr. Brian Rice, member of the Kahnawaké community and faculty member of the Department of Education at The University of Winnipeg, will facilitate discussion after the film.

For more information about Club Native, please visit: http://www.cinemapolitica.org/node/1927 or
http://films.nfb.ca/club-native/. For more information about the Cinema Politica network, please visit www.cinemapolitica.org.

All screenings will be open to all audiences – everyone is welcome. Our screenings will always be free, but donations to offset costs are welcome. Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall is located on the third floor of Centennial Hall at The University of Winnipeg.

Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA wish to thank Cinema Politica for making it possible for us to participate in this network. We are grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for generously supporting this initiative.

Work-Study Program Job Openings

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The University of Winnipeg

WORK-STUDY PROJECT APPLICATION 2010/2011

Deadline for submission of application to the Awards & Financial Aid Office: October 20, 2010

PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT

Department: Art Curator Project Supervisor: Jennifer Gibson

Room #: 4M58 Telephone#: 204.786.9253

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Position 1:

Detailed Description of Project & Duties:

The Art Curator department seeks a work-study student to assist with registration and maintenance of The University of Winnipeg’s Fine Art Collection. Duties will include: conducting research on individual artists and artworks; updating information in the electronic database (i.e. insurance and appraisal records, condition reports, loan information, etc.); moving and assisting in the hanging of artworks; preparing identification labels; photographing artworks; maintaining the art storage facility and carefully cleaning artworks. The student may also be asked to assist with research, public/educational programming, and/or installation pertaining to Gallery 1C03 and other exhibit spaces on campus.

Please note: this project description offers an excellent opportunity for any student interested gallery or museum work from a curatorial and collections management standpoint. Individuals interested in research and archives, more generally, will find this experience beneficial to future work in a related field, as well. It is important that the campus collection and gallery be harnessed as a resource for hands-on career training and students who gain this type of work experience now will have a much better chance of working in their preferred field following graduation.

Required Qualifications: (Outline skills, academic program/courses, if applicable)

Preference will be given to students with a background in art -- ideally art history majors, or students with previous work experience in a gallery or museum setting. Good research, writing, and computer skills are assets, as are organizational skills and the ability to work independently. The ability to move and handle art is also an important consideration; training on careful handling techniques will be provided. Students from other disciplines will be considered.

Project start date: As soon as possible.
Length of project (# of hours): The maximum (120 hours).
Specific days of week: Flexible
Specific hours of work: Flexible
Flexible: Yes
REMINDER: All projects must end by March 31, 2011

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Position 2:

Detailed Description of Project & Duties:
A student performing art exhibition programming assistance will be offered opportunities to develop skills researching contemporary art practices, working with professional contemporary artists, coordinating and delivering public programming, and contributing to marketing and communication efforts. Curatorial research assistance opportunities will be available to explore future art programming on campus. The student may also be asked to assist with installation pertaining to Gallery 1C03 and other exhibit spaces on campus as well as assisting with the preparation of grant applications for exhibitions.

This project description offers an excellent opportunity for a student interested in art exhibition programming. The student will be guided through the protocols of contacting local artists to gather materials relating to past projects for closer study, and through the course of this research, the student will gain insight into the process of selection, commissioning strategies, budget development, and eventually grant application procedures. The student will experience the interdisciplinary nature of art curation and identify how art projects link to a range of curricula on campus.

Required Qualifications: (Outline skills, academic program/courses, if applicable)

Preference will be given to students with a background in art, ideally art history majors, or students with previous work experience in a gallery or museum setting. Good research, writing, and computer skills are assets, as are presentation and organizational skills, and the ability to work independently. Students from other disciplines may be considered on an individual basis.

Project start date: As soon as possible.
Length of project (# of hours): The maximum (120 hours).
Specific days of week: Flexible
Specific hours of work: Flexible
Flexible: Yes
REMINDER: All projects must end by March 31, 2011

Artwork of the Week!

2010-10-15T09:39:00.003-05:00

Week 19:

Caroline Dukes (1929-2003)
Landscape #49
1987
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas

Born and raised in Hungary, Caroline Dukes studied sculpture privately and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest in the late-1940s and early-1950s. She moved with her young family to Canada in 1958 and put her art studies on hold until 1968 when she enrolled in the School of Art at the University of Manitoba, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1972. Initially Dukes’ paintings revealed the stylistic influence of her School of Art teacher Ivan Eyre, but she eventually branched off to a more expressive mode of communication, as can be seen in the loose brushstrokes of Landscape #49. Although Dukes numbered many of her landscape paintings, this particular image is part of a series alternatively titled Apple Pickers or Apples of Sodom. In this series, as in many of her works, Dukes is concerned with the state of humanity and she uses her art to point to larger societal issues. Specifically, Dukes stated that ‘the apple became a symbol of moral decadence; corruption; indifference; violence; greed’ (interview with the artist, Autumn, 2001). Here, a biblical theme is revisited with a twist: a group of voluptuous nude male and female figures push and shove one another in order to grasp the choicest of the forbidden fruit. The large scale of this work is typical of Dukes’ art; in her later years, her paintings became even more monumental in scale, ‘a testament,’ as art historian Claudine Majzels has written,’ to her stamina, survival, and endurance’ (Cities, 8).

Shaughnessy Park School visit

2010-10-08T17:06:00.005-05:00

On Thursday, September 30 Sashira Gafic brought a great group of grade 7 & 8 students from Shaughnessy Park School to Gallery 1C03 for a tour and drawing exercise related to the Dominique Rey: Pilgrims exhibition. The students produced some very freaky drawings, a few samples which you can see above. More images can be found at the album we created on Facebook.

Thanks for coming guys, and thanks again to art educator Tracy Woodward for leading the group and to Victoria Nikkel for helping out!

Artwork of the Week!

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Artwork of the Week!
Week 18:

Ernest Wilson (1933-1987)
Self-portrait (profile)
1957
Ink on paper

This self-portrait was created two years after Ernest Wilson completed his Diploma of Art at the University of Manitoba. Throughout his lifetime, Wilson produced many drawings of himself and he used them as opportunities to capture his noticeably striking, blunt features, but also as a means by which to reveal his brooding intensity. A contemporary of fellow Winnipeg artists Bruce Head, Winston Leathers, Ivan Eyre and Kelly Clark, Wilson was interested in Surrealism early on in his career. When travelling in Europe in 1957, he met renowned Surrealist artist Max Ernst at a café in Paris. Besides drawing intimate sketches of himself and others, Wilson painted large-scale surreal landscape scenes. In order to support himself, Wilson worked as a graphic designer at Pollard Banknote Limited for nearly twenty-five years and he was recognized across the country as a top graphic designer. An excellent writer as well, Wilson penned passionate articles for ArtsWest magazine in the 1970s in a regular column titled “view from the Plain.”

Children of the Earth School visit

2010-10-01T10:16:00.012-05:00

A few days ago, we received a visit from the grade 11 art class at Children of the Earth School. Our volunteer art educator extraordinaire Tracy Woodward developed a program for the Pilgrims exhibition and led the group through it. As you can see, the activity involved a drawing exercise where the students were encouraged to re-interpret works in the exhibition and also create self-portraits that included a "freakish" element. Above are some examples of what they did.....awesome work! If you want to see more photos, check out the album on our facebook page.

Thanks to teacher Moraina Hochman for bring her class and to the students for their participation....we hope to see you back again soon!

Artwork of the Week!

2010-10-01T09:32:00.002-05:00

Week 17:

Sheila Spence (born 1952)
Chris, West Broadway
1997
Black and white silver print

Winnipeg artist Sheila Spence studied photography at Red River College and at residencies in Banff, Quebec and Great Britain. Spence has gained respect for her strong photographic portraits which often have an underlying socio-political message. During the 1990s, she worked with Noreen Stevens under the name Average Good Looks and placed positive images of gays and lesbians in the public domain. In 1997, Spence engaged in a photographic project that was to prove controversial for crossing conventional boundaries of class and race. At the same time, Spence lived in the West Broadway community bordering the University of Winnipeg, a neighbourhood that had been labeled negatively by the media as a result of youth gang violence. The artist decided to photograph the children and teenagers in the area and allowed them to pose as they wished. Some of the kids flashed hand signals that referenced the language of the streets, while other portraits, like Chris, West Broadway, are seemingly casual shots of happy-go-lucky adolescents. When Gallery 1C03 attempted to present Spence’s West Broadway series in a solo exhibition in 1999, some community members objected to the art, resulting in the removal of the portraits and their replacement with blank canvases on which the public could voice their opinions of the situation.

Pilgrims review in today's Free Press!

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Check this out....Alison Gillmor's review of Dominique Rey: Pilgrims in today's Winnipeg Free Press!

Artwork of the Week!

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Artwork of the Week!
Week 16:

E.J. (Ted) Howorth (born 1943)
The Double Crossing
1979
Silkscreen

Originally trained as a sculptor, Ted Howorth began experimenting with silkscreen prints at the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop in 1970. Howorth’s psychedelic images of the 1970s are characterized by flat blocks of bright, solid colour bordered with heavy black outlines. By the middle of the decade he was incorporating photographic images into his prints as can be seen in The Double Crossing, which includes a black and white picture of a rural Manitoba blizzard. The Double Crossing was produced in Paris during Howorth’s apprenticeship at Atelier Arcay and the subject of the piece reflects the artist’s interest in human-powered vehicles. At the time, American aeronautical engineer Paul MacCready had designed a human-powered aircraft called The Gossamer Albatross –a simplified rendering of it is included at the left of this work – that won the Kremer prize for successfully crossing the English Channel. At the same time, Howorth was crossing the Atlantic Ocean to begin work in France. The small figure in the centre holding a camera is fellow Winnipeg artist Don Proch. Two years earlier, Howorth had travelled to France with colleagues Proch and Bill Lobchuk for an exhibition of prints from the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop. The title Double Crossing thus comes from the idea of two separate crossings of bodies of water – MacCready’s and Howorth’s.

Pilgrims makes cover of Uniter!

2010-09-23T14:08:00.003-05:00

Dominique Rey's oil painting Romp is on the cover of the current issue of The Uniter, the UofW student newspaper! Look inside as well for a review of the Pilgrims exhibition by Robin Dudgeon.

Later this afternoon, you can catch Dominique speaking about the exhibition on CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg. The program will air live from 5:30 - 6:00 p.m. CST.

Cinema Politica film screening

2010-09-21T11:54:00.004-05:00

Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA are pleased to host our first film screening of the 2010-11 season as part of the international documentary screening network Cinema Politica.

Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, will be shown in Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall (3rd floor, Centennial Hall) on Tuesday, September 28 at 7:00 p.m. in conjunction with Freestyle IV, a week long festival organized by the UWSA where inner city youth, community members and students are invited to learn and create in a highly structured (and artistically driven) programming environment at The University of Winnipeg.

Directed by Byron Hurt (USA, 2007), Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes is an in-depth look at manhood, sexism and homophobia in rap music and hip-hop culture. Hurt, former star college quarterback, longtime hip-hop fan and gender violence prevention educator, conceived the documentary as a "loving critique" of a number of disturbing trends in the world of rap music. He pays tribute to hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing destructive, deeply conservative stereotypes of manhood.

The documentary features revealing interviews about masculinity and sexism with rappers such as Mos Def, Fat Joe, Chuck D, Jadakiss and Busta Rhymes, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and cultural commentators such as Michael Eric Dyson and Beverly Guy-Shetfall. Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes is critically acclaimed for its fearless engagement with issues of race, gender violence and the corporate exploitation of youth culture.

Please stay for discussion after the film screening facilitated by Dr. Roewan Crowe of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and Co-Director of the Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies.

All screenings will be open to all audiences – everyone is welcome. Our screenings will always be free, but donations to offset costs are welcome.

Culture Days at Gallery 1C03

2010-09-21T11:28:00.006-05:00

Gallery 1C03 is pleased to be part of Culture Days!

In conjunction with this nation-wide celebration, we will offer a FREE all ages drawing and mask-making workshop in the Gallery led by artist and art educator Tracy Woodward on Saturday, September 25. The workshop will complement Gallery 1C03 's current exhibition Dominique Rey: Pilgrims. The public can drop by any time between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m. to view the exhibition and take part in a workshop if they wish.

Image: Dominique Rey, General Infinite Love, 2008, oil on canvas, 42" x 30". Courtesy of the artist.

For more information on this event, please visit http://www.culturedays.ca/en/celebration-schedule/view/4c7fff3d-fd8c-4df2-a068-25e64c4a89be.

Hope to see you here!

Artwork of the Week!

2010-09-15T09:01:00.001-05:00

Week 15:

Bruce Head (born 1931)
Conversation
1957
Oil on canvas

Ever since Winnipeg artist Bruce Head graduated from the School of Art at the University of Manitoba in 1953, his bold, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures have garnered attention. Like his comrades Ernest Wilson and Frank Mikuska, Head was employed for many years as a graphic designer. In fact, Head and Mikuska worked together as graphic artists for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. But Head’s day job did not prevent him from establishing an active career in visual art. Over the years, he received many local commissions, most notably the expansive circular sculptured concrete wall in the underground concourse at Portage and Main.

Head’s earliest commission, however, was a large mural for the Manitoba Teacher’s college in 1959. This work, titled The Seasons, is stylistically similar to the early painting Conversation. Both works demonstrate thorny enclosed shapes and sections of brilliant colour that seem to dance energetically across the surface. The dark outlines of Conversation become more dense in the middle of the canvas to suggest an encounter of meeting.

Artwork of the Week!

2010-09-08T09:33:00.001-05:00

Artwork of the Week!
Week 14:

Eva Stubbs (born 1925)
Self-portrait with Skulls
1999
Charcoal and conté on paper

Eva Stubbs was born in Hungary. She completed a Diploma of Fine Arts from the University of Manitoba in 1957, but did not begin a regular art practice until 1974. Best known as a sculptor working both figuratively and abstractly in clay and bronze, Stubbs turns to drawing on occasion in order to create something less labour intensive and more immediate. In the somber Self-portrait with Skulls, Stubbs recalls the turbulent personal history of her formative years. She depicts a vision of her youthful self enclosed in a window-like shape, physically separated from the drawn face that she identifies as her mother, in the upper right, and the skeletons that are her ancestors, at the upper left. At the age of four, her parents left Hungary for South America, taking her older brother with them, but leaving the artist in the care of her father’s brother and his wife. Although her parents returned to Europe several years later and she lived with them for a year in Spain, Stubbs was sent back to stay with her uncle and aunt after civil war broke out. Only at the age of fourteen was she reunited with her family, this time in Tangier, where they stayed until they could secure safe passage to Canada in 1944.

Artwork of the Week!

2010-09-01T16:38:00.002-05:00

Week 13:

Kelly Clark (1935-1995)
Untitled (Delta 1980)
1980
Watercolour and Collage

During the summers of 1978 through 1982, Kelly Clark retreated to a cottage at the marshy Delta beach on the southern shore of Lake Manitoba. This was a time for contemplation and personal introspection when Clark could escape the stress of the city; it also signaled a reprieve from the substance abuse that had consumed his life. Artistically, Clark switched gears at this time too, depicting the open vistas of the prairie landscape that surrounded him. Sometimes turbulent, at other times serene, the intimate watercolours and collages that Clark created in situ were often reworked as large acrylics on canvas during the winters spent at his Winnipeg studio. The Delta landscapes were Clark’s most commercially viable pieces; they funded his stays at the cottage and many years later he visited this theme, producing additional works in various media. Untitled (Delta 1980) is the earliest of four small paintings in the University’s collection that was created by Clark at the rural retreat.

Artwork of the Week!

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Artwork of the Week!
Week 12:

Eleanor Bond (born 1948)
Another Fallen Convertible
1980
Lithograph

After pursuing studies in interior design, English and comparative religion, Eleanor Bond completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Manitoba with a major in printmaking. Like her contemporary Wanda Koop, Bond is well-travelled and this has affected her art. Another Fallen Convertible is from a group of lithographs she produced shortly after she had spent time in places as disparate as Texas, India and the Columbian Icefields of the Canadian Rockies. Her prints of this period show small vehicles with no one behind the wheel amid treacherous mountain landscapes. Bond commented on this early series to Robert Enright:

“I think often when you’ve been traveling and you come back there’s a sense that nothing has changed. So this work was about not becoming complacent, about being on the road and taking chances. It was fairly metaphorical, not in a physical sense but in an intellectual and spiritual sense.” (Enright, “The Comfort of Edges”, 12)

From the mid-1980s until the present day, Bond has built her reputation as a painter of large urban landscapes that hover between utopian/hopeful and dystopian/hopeless visions of the future. Like Another Fallen Convertible, Bond’s paintings are depopulated but they show plentiful evidence of the human environment, thereby enabling individuals to project themselves into her scenes. And while the perspective Bond employed in Another Fallen Convertible seems disconcerting, the artist has become known for engaging viewers with even more dizzying aerial views.

Artwork of the Week!

2010-08-18T09:12:00.000-05:00

Week 11:

Walter J. Phillips (1884-1963)
Grain Elevators
1939
Watercolour

Artist, teacher and writer Walter J. Phillips is recognized locally, nationally and internationally for his colour woodblock prints and watercolours. Mostly self-taught, Phillips was born in England and immigrated to Winnipeg in 1913. For several years, he was an instructor at St. John’s Technical High School and wrote a regular art column for the Winnipeg Tribune. In his own work, Phillips was able to adapt English watercolour techniques to the prairie landscape. His early Canadian images consist largely of scenes from Lake of the Woods, where he and his family rented a cottage each summer. Starting in 1926, Phillips traveled west and began painting the Rocky Mountains and the people and landscapes of the British Columbia coast.

A great deal of his work during the 1930s, however, also took inspiration from his wanderings around Manitoba. A much-loved subject was the grain elevator, upon which he commented in Duncan Campbell Scott’s 1947 monograph Walter J. Phillips:

“You can see an elevator ten miles away as you drive along a prairie road. We used to drive so much and over such uninteresting ground that elevators were glimpsed with joy. They stood up like beacons, and betokened a village, with gas or food or whatever our needs might be. I have a warm feeling for the elevator. Someone said that it expressed the only original architectural thought in the history of Canada.” (Scott, 26)

Phillips often identified the specific location of his elevator paintings and this image may in fact depict Headingly, Manitoba. Grain Elevators reflects the characteristic control and sensitivity with which Phillips handled his subjects and it was painted when the artist was in his prime; he had just been elected a full member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1933.

In 1941, Phillips moved to Calgary to teach at the Alberta Institute of Technology and Art. He later retired to Victoria, where he died, but he is most often recognized as a Winnipeg artist and his contribution to the development of the local scene was significant.

Artwork of the Week!

2010-08-10T09:15:00.000-05:00

Week 10:

Winston Leathers (1932-2004)
Periodic Dynamic Field
1969
Silkscreen

Painter, printmaker, poet and professor Winston Leathers graduated from the University of Manitoba School of Art in 1956 and studied art education in the late-1950s. A design instructor at Winnipeg’s Tech-Voc High School for ten years, Leathers joined the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba in 1969, where he taught until his retirement in 1993.

Leathers experimented with new materials and techniques throughout his artistic career. An example of this is Periodic Dynamic Field which was included in the 2005 Gallery 1C03 and Gallery One One One joint exhibition Winston Leathers: In the Moment. Periodic Dynamic Field wdas one of the artist’s earliest images that used plastic as a printing medium and employed new fluorographic and metallic inks, causing parts of the work to glow under black light conditions. The hard edges, geometric shapes and bold colours of this print represent a shift from the compositions Leathers produced earlier in the decade. However, this work also incorporates painterly calligraphic markings that reflect the artist’s abiding interest in the teachings of Zen philosophy. In writing about a slightly later series of prints, Cosmic Variations, for which he is perhaps best known, Leathers explained the purpose behind his art: ‘As for my own work I hope to evoke a sense of wonder I see around me, not as a pictorial souvenir, nor as an equivalent of what I see, but as a personal statement of order and beauty.’ (Winston Leathers’ Cosmic Variations, unpaginated)

2010-2011 Programming

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Check out our line-up for 2010-2011!

Dominique Rey: Pilgrims (September 9 - October 9, 2010)

Gerry Kopelow: Where The Buddha Walked (Gallery 1C03) AND Gerry Kopelow: Forty Years Ago Today (Hamilton Galleria & University of Winnipeg Archives) (October 21 - November 20, 2010)

Scott Stephens (January 20 - February 19, 2011)

Robert Kelly: Minutia (March 3 - April 2, 2011

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Gallery 1C03 presents
Dominique Rey: Pilgrims
September 9 - October 9, 2010

Performance by the Abzurbs: Thursday, September 9, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
(front lawn of The University of Winnipeg)

Opening reception: Thursday, September 9, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
(Gallery 1C03)

Public artist talk: Friday, September 17, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
(Room 2C15, 2nd floor, Centennial Hall)

Dominique Rey, General Infinite Love, 2008, oil on canvas, 42" x 30" - Image courtesy of the artist

Throughout her artistic practice, Winnipegger Dominique Rey has been fascinated by representations of the other — a figure both real and imagined — and the ways this figure embodies our deepest fears, our suppressed longings and the infinite complexities of human life. Gallery 1C03 will present Pilgrims, a series of Rey's oil paintings and ink drawings that explore notions of the “unbeautiful” and how the unbeautiful becomes permissible, and even desirable, via performance and public display.

To accompany this exhibition and coincide with the festive atmosphere of The University of Winnipeg's Orientation Week, Gallery 1C03 and the University of Winnipeg Students Association will co-present a participatory performance by the Abzurbs, a collective of artists and musicians that merges burlesque, performance, music and visual art, evoking the grotesque through absurd and purposeless play. Dominique Rey is a founding member of the Abzurbs and their use of the mask and adoption of unconventional physical traits are vehicles of self-transformation which can be seen in Pilgrims.

Working in photography, video, painting and performance, Dominique Rey completed a BFA in painting at the University of Manitoba (1999), a MFA in photography in 2007 at Bard College (New York) and is currently pursuing a MFA in New Media via Berlin's Transart Institute. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Plug In ICA, Clark Gallery, Michael Gibson Gallery, Alternator Gallery, Gallery TPW, Truck Gallery, Gallery One One One and La Maison des artistes. Rey has been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Winnipeg Arts Council, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and the Ricard Foundation. Her work has been reviewed in the Globe & Mail, Frieze, Canadian Art, Border Crossings and the Winnipeg Free Press. In addition to her visual work, Dominique Rey's activities include performing with the Abzurbs, teaching, presenting lectures and curating. Rey was a member of the Board of Directors of Ace Art Inc. from 2002-2009, and a MAWA mentor in 2008/09 in collaboration with La Maison des artistes. She is presently Winnipeg's Visual Arts Ambassador for the duration of the city's designation as Cultural Capital of Canada in 2010.

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Gallery 1C03 presents
Gerry Kopelow: Where The Buddha Walked
October 21 - November 20, 2010

AND

Hamilton Galleria & University of Winnipeg Archives present
Gerry Kopelow: Forty Years Ago Today
October 21 - November 20, 2010

Opening reception: Thursday, October 21, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
(Gallery 1C03)

Public artist talk: Monday, October 25, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
(Manitoba Boardroom, Room 2M70)

Salon Night: Thursday, October 28 at 7:30 p.m.
(Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, 121-100 Arthur Street)

Gerry Kopelow, Buddhist Shrine, Bohdgaya, India, 2006-07, digital image - Image courtesy of the artist

Gerry Kopelow, Niverville Participants, 1969/2010, digital image scanned from black and white silver negatives - Image courtesy of the artist

In a double solo exhibition on campus, The University of Winnipeg will present two distinct bodies of work created by Winnipeg photographer Gerry Kopelow. While Where The Buddha Walked and Forty Years Ago Today are different in subject matter and separated in time by four decades, they are connected as integral moments in Kopelow's artistic career. Forty Years Ago Today consists of black and white shots of Canadian youth culture from 1969-70, taking viewers back to the origins of Kopelow's photographic practice. Capturing spontaneous moments of the youth hippie scene of the day, the emerging photographer worked in the tradition of W. Eugene Smith and Henri Cartier-Bresson. These images will be shown in the University's Hamilton Galleria and Archives, both located in the University's Library.

Kopelow's photographic pursuit of the “decisive moment” in the late-1960s indirectly led him to study Eastern meditational practices and, ultimately, the methods of mental cultivation invented and taught by the historical Buddha. For years, Kopelow has pursued the meditative life that he was introduced to by his meticulous approach to photography. In 2006 and 2007, Kopelow found himself travelling to India to visit historical sites associated with the life of the Buddha: the places where he is said to have been born, achieved his realizations, taught, meditated and died. The results of Kopelow's pilgrimmage are the subjects of the photographs in Where The Buddha Walked, which will be presented at Gallery 1C03.

Gerry Kopelow is an internationally published photographer, author and educator. As an emerging artist in the late-1960s, his photographic work received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Film Board of Canada. Kopelow subsequently established himself as an award winning commercial photographer, producing projects for various corporate, institutional and government clients. His writing and photographs have appeared in professional journals and his books on photography are widely respected as definitive works in the field. He has lectured and delivered workshops at various academic institutions including the University of Florida, The Georgia Institute of Technology, The Pratt Institute and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He also teaches architectural photography regularly at the Cooper Union in New York. Kopelow's most recent publication is All Our Changes: Images from the Sixties Generation, Photographs by Gerry Kopelow (2009, University of Manitoba Press) and reproduces photographs that will be presented in Forty Years Ago Today. Where The Buddha Walked and Forty Years Ago Today are the first public solo presentations of Kopelow's non-commercial photography in nearly four decades.

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Gallery 1C03 presents
Scott Stephens
January 20 - February 19, 2011

Opening reception: Thursday, January 20 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
(Gallery 1C03)

Public artist talk: Friday, January 21 from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
(Room 2C14)

Scott Stephens, Unsacred #4, 2010, digital image - Image courtesy of the artist

Gallery 1C03 is proud to host Scott Stephens' first solo exhibition. Stephens will present new and recent digital images and a single channel video installation that draw, in part, upon research he conducted while studying at The University of Winnipeg. His exhibition will explore liminality through an investigation of the landscape and the Windigokan, a contrary figure in traditional Anishinabe society.

Operating on the fringe of traditional Anishinabe culture, the Windigokan represents the opposite of accepted norms. Stephens contends that, like clowns or misfits in other cultures, the Windigokan use their backwardness to teach others and that their contrary nature represents a powerful symbol that has received little attention to date, both within and outside of Anishinabe society. His landscape studies suggest the imagined physical space from which contrariness might originate and his depictions of material manifestations of the Windigokan will open discussion about this sacred society and the importance of deviant cultural figures. Stephens' show is co-presented as a satellite exhibition of Plug In ICA's Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, a large-scale exhibition of contemporary Indigenous art from around the world that serves as the banner project for Winnipeg's Cultural Capital of Canada 2010 Program.

Scott Stephens is an emerging Anishinabe artist based in Winnipeg who works in photography, printmaking and video, among other media. Stephens obtained a BA in Psychology and Religious Studies from The University of Winnipeg (2002) and has completed mentorships and workshops with Manitoba Printmakers Association (Martha Street Studio) and Aboriginal Film Training. In the past four years, Stephens has been awarded grants from the Manitoba Arts Council and the Winnipeg Arts Council for his artistic work. Although Stephens has taken part in several group exhibitions across Canada and in North Dakota, most notably in Subconscious City at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (2008), this project represents his first solo exhibition in a public gallery. Later in 2011, work from Stephens' series of prints exploring inter-cultural conflict will be the focus of a second solo show at Martha Street Studio.

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Gallery 1C03 presents
Robert Kelly: Minutia
March 3 - April 2, 2011

Opening reception: Thursday, March 3 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
(Gallery 1C03)

Public artist talk: Friday, March 4 from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
(Room 2C14)

Artist workshop on “Bookworks in the Digital Age and Their Continued Relevance”: (Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts; date and time TBD)

Artist workshop on “The Book as Art” for The Writers Collective: location and time TBD

Robert Kelly, The Book of A (detail), 2004, hard cover book - Image courtesy of the artist

Calgary-based artist Robert Kelly will present Minutia at Gallery 1C03, a conceptual installation consisting of eleven books of concrete poetry displayed on lecterns arranged in a circular formation. The bookworks are based on the eleven words from the sentence fragment “the first time I heard the sound of a page turning.” The essence of this installation is that awareness of minutiae is fundamental to meaningfulness. Minutia demonstrates this by isolating and recontextualizing components from the English language to create an arena in which to explore meaning.

Robert Kelly is a conceptual artist and educator who works in various media that include painting, printmaking, installation and performance. Kelly teaches creativity theory and practice, studio art and design and curriculum theory and design for the faculties of art and education at the University of Calgary. The editor of two recent publications on creativity as a primary rationale for education, Kelly has delivered many lectures and workshops on the subject of creativity and educational practice and serves as a consultant for the new Fine Arts Curriculum Initiative for the Alberta Ministry of Education. Kelly has presented his art in solo and group exhibitions across Alberta and in British Columbia and Ontario. Since its initial presentation at the Nickle Arts Museum in Calgary, Minutia has also been shown at the Maltwood Gallery in Victoria and at the McIntosh Gallery in London, Ontario. Minutia is Robert Kelly's first solo exhibition in Manitoba.

Gallery 1C03 gratefully acknowledges financial assistance from the Manitoba Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Regular Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday, noon - 4 p.m.
Saturday: 1 - 4 p.m.
Closed Thanksgiving Day, Remembrance Day and Louis Riel Day.

Contact:
Jennifer Gibson
Curator, Gallery 1C03
The University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9
Ph: 204.786.9253
F: 204.774.4134
E: j.gibson@uwinnipeg.ca

Artwork of the Week!

2010-08-04T08:46:00.001-05:00

Week 9:

Diana Thorneycroft (born 1956)
Self-portrait in Field of Dolls II
1989
Black and white silver print

Internationally recognized photographer Diana Thorneycroft obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Manitoba’s School of Art and subsequently studied at the University of Wisconsin, where she received a Master of Arts in Art. Until the late-1980s, Thorneycroft concentrated primarily on drawing and printmaking. Self-portrait in Field of Dolls II was one of the first successful photographs she produced. Shot with infrared film on a warm summer night in a friend’s yard in Winnipeg, the subject matter and theatricality of this piece is indicative of the direction that Thorneycroft’s photographs would take in the years ahead. From exhibitions Touching: The Self, in which this image was included, to The Body, its lesson and camouflage, the artist spent several years photographing her own body, examining issues of gender, identity, vulnerability, the subconscious and the grotesque. Thorneycroft has also worked with dolls in both her photographic practice and in her drawings for more than twenty years. Employing them as human surrogates, Thorneycroft not only laid down beside dolls, she has distorted and manipulated them to act as metaphors for pain and suffering. Technically beautiful, Thorneycroft’s images are always challenging and they often raise disturbing questions about our psyche.

Artwork of the Week!

2010-07-28T12:57:00.003-05:00

Week 8:

Nikola Bjelajac (1919-2006)
Kennedy Street
1961
Watercolour

Milwaukee born Nikola Bjelajac is most recognized for his teaching contributions. He obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees in Art Education from the Milwaukee State Teachers’ College and the University of Wisconsin respectively. After completing his studies, Bjelajac immigrated to Canada where he taught drawing and painting at the Universities of Saskatchewan and Manitoba and at the Banff school of Fine Arts. In 1964, Bjelajac and fellow artist Steve Repa founded the Forum Art Institute in Winnipeg, a not-for-profit art school that continues to operate today. Although Bjelajac spent most of his time teaching, he pursued his artistic work during summer months. The University of Winnipeg owns three watercolours by Bjelajac, the medium in which he excelled. All three images, including Kennedy Street, are studies of urban architecture and their vibrant colour schemes and expressive brush strokes signal the activity of the city. In Kennedy Street, one distinct architectural element is certainly recognizable: the dome of Manitoba’s Legislature is visible beyond the apartment buildings in the foreground.

CITY.BLOCK.STOP

2010-07-22T11:05:00.001-05:00

CITY.BLOCK.STOP

Check out the new sculpture by David Perrett on Ellice, created as a public art project for the University of Winnipeg Gateway and Transit project.

City.Block.Stop
David Perrett, 2010
Tyndall Limestone, Mariash Limestone, Sandstone, Slate, Steel, Glass, Moss
Public Art Program - Winnipeg Arts Council
Collection of the City of Winnipeg

Artwork of the Week!

2010-07-21T09:01:00.001-05:00

Week 7:

Aganetha Dyck (born 1937)
Hive Blanket
1992
Honeybee Text on Canvas

A recent winner of the Manitoba Arts Council’s Award of Distinction and the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Winnipeg born Aganetha Dyck began creating art when she was in her mid-30s and living with her family in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Dyck studied drawing, weaving, ceramics and other media with George Glenn and Margaret Van Walsem through the local Arts Centre. From the beginning, Dyck often worked three-dimensionally and she drew intuitively upon her domestic experiences as a mother and homemaker. During the 1970s and 1980s, Dyck shrank clothing, canned buttons and decorated cigarettes.

For nearly the last two decades, however, she has collaborated with bees to produce her art. Around 1989, Dyck began renting hives from local beekeepers so that she might place objects inside of them to see what the insects would do. Over the years, she has introduced sports equipment, shoes, glass, Barbie dolls, dresses, crocheted items, Braille plates, canvas and porcelain into the hives.

Of Hive Blanket, Dyck says:

The Hive Blanket series began in 1991 when I noticed the marks the bees created were not unlike ancient text and perhaps even similar to musical notes at times. The Hive Blanket is an ongoing series, going into its 17th year of research and production. The blankets vary in size from 16 by 16 inches to 10 feet long by 9 inches high; they include my drawings, text and honeybee marks of honeycomb. I draw with the bees on canvas by giving the bees honeybee pheromones. Pheromones are honeybee chemicals of communication which the honeybees use with each other and perhaps even with other living organisms. I personally like to think that includes humans. This method of pheromone communication was suggested by Dr. Mark Winston from Simon Fraser University. I use other scents discovered at perfume counters and in fields of wildflowers in my attempt to communicate with the bees. (Electronic mail communication with the artist, January 15, 2008)

Artwork of the Week!

2010-07-14T09:10:00.001-05:00

Week 6:

Murray McKenzie (1927-2007)
Daniel Spence, Lonesome Trapper (102)
1997
Black and White Silver Print

Respected Métis photographer Murray McKenize built his reputation on his sensitive portraits of the people who live in northern Manitoba’s isolated communities. Born in Cumberland House, Saskatchewan, McKenzie spent most of his life in The Pas, Thompson and other parts of this province. He began using a camera as a teenager recovering from tuberculosis in a sanatorium. In 1951, he graduated from the New York Institute of Photography and his images have been widely published in sources as diverse as the Winnipeg Free Press and Time magazine. In Daniel Spence, Lonesome Trapper (102), McKenzie documents the regret and sadness expressed in the face of his subject, an elder from Nelson House who, at the age of 102, is no longer able to go out on the trapline.

Check out this photograph in the Disability Resource Centre in the basement of Graham Hall!

Artwork fo the Week!

2010-07-07T08:53:00.002-05:00

Week 5:

Wanda Koop (born 1951)
The Mountain

1981
Acrylic on Paper

With over fifty solo exhibitions to her credit, celebrated Winnipeg artist Wanda Koop has shown her paintings and videos for more than three decades across Canada and internationally. In 1998 she founded Art City, a storefront art center that gives youth at risk the opportunity to work with contemporary visual artists. Koop has received numerous awards for her work, including an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from The University of Winnipeg in 2002.

Koop's paintings often reflect her love of landscape and are usually influenced by her travels. In her art, she develops a visual language of signs and symbols that help her make sense of the work around her. Elements of the land are reduced to bold, iconic forms, as with the painting presented here. Koop is also a prolific artist who works constantly. In developing a series of images, she produces hundreds of small sketches and then builds up medium-sized studies of selected scenes. Finally, she paints the most powerful images that will work on a monumental scale to confront and engage viewers.

Painted outdoors near the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver, the Mountain was one of several preliminary works for a 12 foot by 14 foot painting shown in one of Koop's early solo exhibitions at the London Regional Art Gallery. The series from which this painting is derived also shares another characteristic found in many of Koop's works: her need to paint in order to calm her fears and sense of dread. Art critic Robert Enright wrote that this particular series of paintings enabled the artist to neutralize her fear of mountains 'by transforming them into stately, symmetrical objects.' (Enright, 'Thinking Big', 41)

Artwork of the Week!

2010-06-30T12:23:00.003-05:00

Week 4:

Tony Tascona (1926-2006)
Autumn
1994
Silkscreen, 40/45
Gift of Tony Tascona and Doreen Millin

Educated at the Winnipeg School of Art and, subsequently, at the University of Manitoba School of Art, Tony Tascona is recognized nationally for his abstract paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings. Among his many honours, Tascona was awarded a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Winnipeg in 1994 and was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1996. Along with his contemporaries Winston Leathers and Bruce Head, Tascona led Winnipeg's modernist art scene.

Over the years, Tascona produced many prints and his folio, tellingly titled The Four Seasons, reflects the shift in his work that took place during the 1990s. In the last two decades of his artistic career, Tascona returned to softer colours, more delicate lines and organic themes. Art critic Alilson Gillmor has written about the quartet of silkscreen images:

"The Four Seasons print folio from 1994 takes on a traditional theme in art history and gives it a modernist twist, expressing the year not through peasants doing their seasonal tasks, but through colour and form..." (unpublished text, 1998)

Artwork of the Week!

2010-06-23T09:10:00.003-05:00

Week 3:

Don Proch (born 1944)
Firefly
1978
Silkscreen, 9/75
Gift of Richard Nordrum and Family

Part of a folio of prints released by the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop in 1978, Don Proch’s Firefly deals with the rural prairie landscape and its connection to technologies of the urban environment. Proch obtained Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Education degrees from the University of Manitoba in 1966. He rose to fame in the early-1970s with the creation of unique sculptural drawings that he produced collaboratively with members of the Opthalmia Company, based out of his hometown Inglis, Manitoba near the Asessippi Valley. His early silkscreens, also printed by the Screen Shop, employed graphite powder and bronzing varnish to simulate delicate drawings or dry-point etchings, an effect that can be seen here in the building blocks that constitute the landscape.

Check out this artwork in the second floor hallway of the Bryce building!

Artwork of the Week!

2010-06-16T09:02:00.003-05:00

Week 2:

Daphne Odjig (born 1919)
Nanabajou and his Daughter
1975
Silkscreen, 4/60
Gift of Frank and Sue Hechter

An Ojibwe of the Potawatomi Nation, Daphne Odjig was born and raised on the Wikwemikong First Nation of Manitoulin Island, Ontario. From 1963 until 1976, she lived and worked in northern Manitoba and in Winnipeg. An accomplished artist in her own right, Odjig has done much to promote recognition of contemporary First Nations art across the country and internationally: in 1970 she founded Indian Prints of Canada to market reproductions of Aboriginal art and, in 1974, she opened the Warehouse Gallery (now known as the Wah-Sa Gallery) to exhibit the work of First Nations artists. In 1973 Odjig, along with fellow artists Jackson Beardy, Eddy Cobiness, Alex Janvier, Norval Morrisseau, Carl Ray and Joseph Sanchez, founded Professional Native Indian Artists Incorporated (popularly referred to as the ‘Indian Group of Seven’) to support one another’s artistic careers, establish sources of funding for other artists and inspire younger generations to celebrate ‘being Indian’.

Nanabajou and his daughter is a silkscreen print based on an original painting of the same title that was used to illustrate a traditional Aboriginal story in the publication Tales from the Smokehouse. According to the legend, Nanabajou was capable of transforming into any living creature. He used his supernatural abilities to fulfill his lustful desires toward his eldest daughter and seduced her by posing first as a caterpillar, then as a rabbit and, finally as a handsome young stranger. The solid colours and strong geometric shapes of this image recall Picasso’s Cubism, a style that Odjig admired. Although Nanabajou and his daughter references erotic subject matter, as signified by the emphasis on the young woman’s breasts and the embracing limbs, the general structure of the composition also resembles a Pieta, with the daughter’s tilted head and serene posture conjuring up that of the Madonna.

Check out this artwork during events in Convocation Hall in Wesley Hall!

Artwork of the Week!

2010-06-09T16:17:00.001-05:00

This summer, Gallery 1C03 presents Artwork of the Week!, a weekly selection designed to acquaint our online audience with holdings from The University of Winnipeg’s Art Collection.

Artwork of the Week!
Week 1:

H. Eric Bergman (1893-1958)
Dusk
Undated
Colour woodcut, 10/100
Gift of H. E. J. Bergman

Dusk (alternately titled After Dusk) is one of two colour woodcut prints created by Bergman in The University of Winnipeg Art Collection. Though it is undated, Dusk was likely completed in the late-1920s or early-1930s and it depicts the Lake of the Woods area, a favourite theme for this artist.

Bergman was best known for his wood engravings, which he began to create in 1926 and have been exhibited internationally. During the following three decades, Bergman printed nearly 100 different images, mainly of botanicals and landscapes. Regardless of subject, all of Bergman’s wood engravings reveal his keen sense of observation and exquisite attention to detail, planning and proportion. He was indeed a master of this medium.

Check out this artwork on display in Gallery 1C03 until the end of this week!

Come on out to our Art Rotation!

2010-05-29T10:41:00.002-05:00

GALLERY 1C03 & THE UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG ARCHIVES are pleased to present:

THE 2010 ART ROTATION

June 1 to June 11, 2010

Gallery Hours: 12:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Archives Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 4p.m.

The university community and the general public are welcome to view a wide assortment of works from The University of Winnipeg's art collection, works which are normally hidden in offices! This is a rare opportunity to view a large number of artworks created by established Manitoba and Canadian artists, as well as pieces from international artists!

Hope to see you soon!

Successful Faculty and Staff Show Opening!

2010-05-29T10:33:00.002-05:00

Thanks to all who came out to support this show at the opening reception on May 24 and congratulations to all participants! Thanks also to the board of the Faculty & Staff Club for hosting the exhibition and offering refreshments to all as well as to Club board member Marlene Milne for serving as a co-juror with 1C03 curator Jennifer Gibson. Merci!

The show will be up until June 25 so please come and take a look at the diverse works!

Faculty & Staff art exhibit opens in the Faculty & Staff Club at UofW

2010-05-20T12:55:00.002-05:00

Gallery 1C03 is pleased to organize a University of Winnipeg Faculty and Staff Art Exhibit! Graciously hosted by the University's Faculty & Staff Club, the exhibit features work created in various media by 16 of our own faculty and staff.

The opening reception will take place Tuesday, May 25, 3:30 – 5 p.m. at the Faculty & Staff Club which is located on the 4th floor of Wesley Hall.

Participating artists

Jane Barske
Jaya Beange
Lisa Gabel
Claude Garand
Bruce Hanks
Weldon Hiebert
Cathleen Hjalmarson
Loresto Jimenez
Adam McCubbin
Melissa Morton
Joel Novek
Melissa Rands
Mirjana Roksandic
Warren Schuetz
Kent Simmons
Melissa Warden

Refreshments will be provided and a cash bar will be available.

Thanks to the Faculty & Staff Club Board for their sponsorship of the opening reception and to board member Marlene Milne for serving as one of the jurors.

Exhibition will continue until June 25, 2010. Faculty & Staff Club hours are Monday - Thursday, 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. and Fridays, 9:30 a.m. - 7 p.m.

For further information, contact Art Curator Jennifer Gibson at j.gibson@uwinnipeg.ca.

Gallery 1C03 and The University of Winnipeg Students’ Association to screen The Coca Cola Case.

2010-03-12T12:17:00.003-06:00

Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA will screen The Coca Cola Case on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 7:00 in the Manitoba Boardroom (2nd floor of Manitoba Hall, Room 2M70).

Image: Scene from The Coca Cola Case by German Gutierrez and Carmen Garcia, Argus Films/National Film Board of Canada, 2009.

In partnership with The UWSA, Gallery 1C03 is pleased to join the international documentary screening network, Cinema Politica, as the first Manitoban chapter through the formation of "Cinema Politica at The University of Winnipeg”. Together we have screened six socially and politically resonant films over the course of the 2009/2010 academic season. Our final offering this year is the controversial film The Coca Cola Case (2009, Argus Films/National Film Board of Canada), which will be shown on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in the Manitoba Boardroom (2nd floor of Manitoba Hall, Room 2M70).

Students at the University of Winnipeg will have the chance to see the film Coca Cola wants to hide. The Coca Cola Case begins with U.S. lawyers Daniel Kovalik and Terry Collingsworth as well as activist Ray Rogers investigating, at the instigation of union leaders in Columbia, Guatemala and Turkey, the hundreds of trade union murders associated with bottling plants for the corporate behemoth Coke.

The Argus Films/NFB film, directed by German Gutierrez and Carmen Garcia, documents their pursuit for justice and accountability for alleged human rights and labour abuses committed by Coca Cola bottling plants, particularly in Colombia and Guatemala. The films co-directors, Gutierrez and Garcia, deny Coke's claims of defamation and breach of confidentiality. According to Gutierrez from previous interviews, everything in the film has been proven and is publicly available.

For more information about The Coca Cola Case, please visit: stopkillercoke.org or www.facebook.com/thecocacolacase. For more information about the Cinema Politica network, please visit www.cinemapolitica.org.

All films are selected by students affiliated with the UWSA’s on-campus service groups. The Coca Cola Case has been programmed by students working with the UWSA’s Foodbank program.

All screenings will be open to all audiences – everyone is welcome from across the campus, and across the city. Our screenings will always be free, but donations to offset costs are welcome.
Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA wish to extend thanks to Cinema Politica for making it possible for us to participate in this network. We are collectively grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for generously supporting this initiative.

Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA proudly present Boy I Am

2010-02-19T08:58:00.005-06:00

Gallery 1C03 and The UWSA will screen Boy I Am and A Girl Named Kai, on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in the Manitoba Boardroom (2^nd floor of Manitoba Hall, Room 2M70).

Image: Scene from Boy I Am by Sam Feder & Julie Hollkar, USA, 2006.

Gallery 1C03 and The UWSA will screen Boy I Am and A Girl Named Kai, on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in the Manitoba Boardroom (2^nd floor of Manitoba Hall, Room 2M70).

In partnership with The UWSA, we are pleased to join the international documentary screening network, Cinema Politica, as the first Manitoban chapter through the formation of "Cinema Politica at The University of Winnipeg”. Together we will screen six socially and politically resonant films over the course of the 2009/2010 academic season.

Engaging students in ways that encourage informed citizenry through creative and critical thinking is key to Gallery 1C03’s mandate and, as a facet of the University capable of connecting widely through the interdisciplinary nature of visual and media art, we hope our involvement with Cinema Politica will help us continue to grow relationships with students, faculty, and staff on campus, as well as citizens of Winnipeg at large. Watching films about issues that matter and taking time to talk about and plan actions can move us to a more equitable and sustainable world. Art and culture matter and the capacity for creative documentaries to inspire and challenge us is a testament to this fact.

Our fifth screening, directed by Sam Feder and Julie Holkar, features the documentary film Boy I Am. This screening has been programmed by students working with the University of Winnipeg's LGBT* Centre and Womyn’s Centre. Boy I Am is a groundbreaking documentary looking at the transgender experiences of three individuals transitioning from female-to-male. This film inquires about the resistance that is sometimes found within the feminist and lesbian communities around FTM transitioning, as some women in these communities consider FTM transitioning at best, “trendy,” or, at worst, as “an anti-feminist act that taps into male privilege (Cinema Politica).” Engaging a dialog between the lesbian, feminist, and transgender communities, this film also works to advance an understanding of transgender issues for all audiences.

Also to be screened on Tuesday, February 23 is the short film A Girl Named Kai, an autobiographical vignette about creator Kai Ling’s experiences. A Girl Named Kai interrogates the tensions between internal and external identities.

For more information about Boy I Am and A Girl Named Kai, please visit: http://www.cinemapolitica.org/node/679 or http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/films/a_girl_named_kai/.

For more information about the Cinema Politica network, please visit www.cinemapolitica.org.

Save the dates! Our last Cinema Politica at the University of Winnipeg screening for the 2009-10 academic season will take place at 7:00 p.m. in the Manitoba Board Room (Rm 2M70) on: Tuesday, March 23.

All films are selected by students affiliated with the UWSA’s on-campus service groups.

All screenings will be open to all audiences – everyone is welcome from across the campus, and across the city. Our screenings will always be free, but donations to offset costs are welcome.

Gallery 1C03 and the UWSA wish to extend thanks to Cinema Politica for making it possible for us to participate in this network. We are collectively grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for generously supporting this initiative.

8 more days to catch Swoon

2010-02-11T16:16:00.002-06:00

Oops, it looks as though I mistakenly listed the closing date for Swoon as February 10 in a previous post. In fact, you have until February 20 to see Swoon at Gallery 1C03! And hey, check out Sandee Moore's review of the exhibition in today's Uptown Magazine.

Swoon review in Winnipeg Free Press

2010-01-28T13:36:00.003-06:00

Check out Alison Gillmor's review of Swoon in today's Winnipeg Free Press. The exhibition continues until Feb.20 in Gallery 1C03, so there's still plenty of time to see it if you haven't already!