Cafeteria exhibit by Elvira Finnigan and Lisa Wood opens in 1 week

Gallery 1C03's next exhibit is Cafeteria, a site-specific evolving installation that transforms the Gallery into a temporary eat place, lab, and artist's studio. Winnipeg artists Elvira Finnigan and Lisa Wood collaborate for this special project which begins with a relational happening on March 2 and opens to the public on March 3. The exhibition continues through April 9. Enjoy this promotional video which gives a sense of the type of work you will see!

 

Gallery 1C03's next exhibition A Putting Down of Roots: 40 Years of CV2 opens in one week. To get a wee taste of this project, produced in partnership with Contemporary Verse 2: The Canadian Journal of Poetry and Critical Writing, have a peek at this video! More info on the show can be found here too.

 

Next exhibition opens February 26 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Our next exhibition, Peter Tittenberger: him and me, opens in just 8 days! Have a look at this preview video, produced by UWinnipeg's own Bruce Hanks, for a taste of some of what you can expect to see at Gallery 1C03 next Thursday.

MY MONUMENT featuring cam bush, Steven Leyden Cochrane, Roewan Crowe & Paul Robles

Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg proudly presents

MY MONUMENT
featuring cam bush, steven leyden cochrane, roewan crowe, and paul robles
March 6 – April 5, 2014

Reception: Thursday, March 6, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. at Gallery 1C03
Remarks by Winnipeg Arts Council Executive Director Carol Phillips and University of Winnipeg Associate Dean of Arts Fiona Green at approximately 4:30 p.m.

Ghost Launch performance with Chandra Mayor: March 15 at 2:00 p.m. in front of 478 River Avenue

The Book is Happening with Roewan Crowe: March 20, 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. at Gallery 1C03
Conversation with the artists: March 26 at 7:00 p.m. in Room 2M70 (2nd floor of Manitoba Hall) at The University of Winnipeg


MY MONUMENT is a multimedia exhibition featuring artistic exchanges among artists cam bush, Steven Leyden Cochrane, Roewan Crowe, and Paul Robles using Crowe’s new book Quivering Land as a point of connection to explore monuments and vanished feminist/queer/alternative cultural sites. The double-sited exhibit will be shown in Gallery 1C03 (1st floor, Centennial Hall) and in the Hamilton Galleria (4th floor mezzanine, Centennial Hall in the Library), both at The University of Winnipeg.

Quivering Land is a queerish Western long poem that engages with politics to reckon with the legacies of violence and colonization in the West. Robles creates intricately cut origami paper images in response to this narrative, while Crowe produces text-based works that have been altered irrevocably by the brutality of the gun. Together the artists fashion a collaborative sculpture which further elucidates shared experiences of loss and the desire to create space for reflection and memory.

MY MONUMENT includes the participatory website Ghost Launch which maps vanished feminist/queer/alternative bookstores and solicits stories, images, and experiences of these bookstores through a public call for submissions. Evidence of this interactive and intergenerational shared space will take the form of multimedia installations by Steven Leyden Cochrane in Gallery 1C03 and by cam bush in the Hamilton Galleria. All four MY MONUMENT artists will join with Chandra Mayor in front of the former site of Bold Print – The Women’s Bookstore on 478 River Avenue on March 15 in an event titled Ghost Launch to reanimate that location with public readings and the launch of a chapbook. Similarly, for The Book is Happening, Crowe will deliver a durational public reading of Quivering Land in the queer space of Gallery 1C03 on March 20.


Artist biographies:

cam bush is a (re)emerging, Winnipeg-based intermedia artist who holds a BFA (Hons.) from the University of Manitoba. His work frequently investigates locality, human relationships, and language and communication, and has been exhibited in galleries, festivals and alternative exhibition spaces across Canada.

Steven Leyden Cochrane is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, and educator. He holds a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in studio art from the University of Windsor. Originally from Tampa, Florida, he is currently based in Winnipeg.

Roewan Crowe is a trans-disciplinary artist, theorist, and teacher living in Winnipeg who explores the rich terrain of video, photography, installation, performance, digital and new media technologies, theory, text, and activism. She investigates the transformational possibilities that open up through artistic and pedagogical practices. She has a particular passion for queer/trans/feminist art, creating community, and facilitating initiatives in cultural democracy.

Born in the Philippines, Paul Robles is a Canadian artist based in Winnipeg. Recognized for his intricate origami cut paper works, Robles combines the delicacy associated with fine and traditional handwork with the portrayal of subjects such as violence, loneliness and intimacy. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (Gold Medal) from University of Manitoba School of Art and Bachelor of Arts degree (Sociology) from The University of Winnipeg.

Chandra Mayor is the current Carol Shields Writer-in-Residence at The University of Winnipeg. The author of three books of poetry and fiction, she has received numerous awards for her writing, including a Lambda Literary Award. She has performed her work in venues and festivals across the country.


MY MONUMENT has been made possible thanks to funding from the Winnipeg Arts Council and with support from the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies and The University of Winnipeg.

Patrick Mahon: WATER MEMORY TABLE

Patrick Mahon, Water Memory Table Study, 2013, ink on balsawood, 15" x 22".

 Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg proudly presents its next exhibition:

Patrick Mahon

WATER MEMORY TABLE
January 16 – February 15, 2014

Opening reception: Thursday, January 16, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. at Gallery 1C03

Artist talk: Friday, January 17 at 12:30 p.m. in Room 2M70 (2^nd floor of Manitoba Hall) at The University of Winnipeg

Artist workshop “Weather Structures: Printed Sculptures, Environmental Traces”: Saturday, January 11 & Sunday, January 12, 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. at Martha Street Studio

In this solo exhibition, former Winnipegger Patrick Mahon creates printed sculptural installations that reference the human connection to shifting environmental conditions through an investigation of built structures. Forms based on images of water towers and on pictures of built supports used in invasive practices such as coal mining interplay in abstract arrangements where structures and flows comingle. A series entitled Water & Tower Allegory involves printed sculptures that extend Mahon’s longstanding commitment to intersections between art and design, decoration and expression, and the singular with the multiple. In a work made especially for Gallery 1C03, Water Memory Table, historical maps and written records that refer to the flooding of the Red River combine to produce a permeable structure that evokes a layered history of people and water in the Southern Manitoba region.

Patrick Mahon is an artist, writer, and teacher/academic; he was Chair of Visual Arts at the University of Western Ontario from 2000 - 2010. He has a BFA from the University of Manitoba School of Art and a MFA from the University of British Columbia. His work as a visual artist includes print-based projects that engage with historical and contemporary aspects of printmaking. It also involves responding to gallery and museum collections as well as establishing community-based art initiatives, including several regarding the environment. Mahon’s artwork has been exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally. In Canada he has shown at Museum London, The Hamilton Art Gallery, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and Kamloops Art Gallery, to name a few. Internationally his work has been presented at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing, China in 2005 and in Barthète (Toulouse), France in 2011. Mahon’s collaborative SSHRC project on the theme of water, Immersion Emergencies and Possible Worlds, began in 2010 and included a residency at the Banff Centre in 2013. As an individual artist he was in residence at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium and at La Maison Patrimoniale Barthète in France, both in 2011. He lives in London, Ontario.

Gallery 1C03 hours: Monday – Friday: 12:00 – 4:00 p.m., Saturday: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Closed Sundays..

Admission is always free and everyone is welcome. Wheelchair accessible.

Ian August exhibit opening & Frank Shebageget publication launch today!

Ian August, Factory (detail), 2013, mixed media, 29" x 20" x 20".

Cover of Frank Shebageget, Gallery 1C03's newest exhibition catalogue.

Don't forget: Ian August's exhibition RE: BUILD THEM opens today at Gallery 1C03 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. There will be a cash bar and plenty of delicious nibbles from Diversity Foods. We are also excited to be launching the Gallery's most recent publication Frank Shebageget which is based on his solo exhibition on campus earlier this year. The catalogue is fully illustrated and features an essay by Jenny Western. It will be available for purchase for a mere $10.00. The beautiful cover shown above gives a taste of the book.

Ian August RE: BUILD THEM

Ian August

RE: BUILD THEM
November 7 – December 7, 2013

Opening reception: Thursday, November 7, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. at Gallery 1C03

Includes launch of Gallery 1C03 publication Frank Shebageget

Artist talk: Wednesday, November 13 at 12:30 p.m. in Room 2M70 (2^nd floor of Manitoba Hall) at The University of Winnipeg

Bauhaus film screening & discussion with the artist & Dr. Oliver Botar: Monday, November 18 at 4:00 p.m. in Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall (3^rd floor of Centennial Hall) at The University of Winnipeg

RE: BUILD THEM is a solo exhibition of new paintings, sculptural maquettes and video by Winnipeg artist Ian August that reflects upon the effects of the Bauhaus movement through a (re)imagining of its (would be) spaces and structures.

Conceptually, August is interested in how modernist theory and its real life manifestations as built structures arose at the Bauhaus School. August notes that many Bauhaus architecture and design students were taught by abstract painters and he is keen to align that fact with his own practice:  “An abstraction happens at every stage [of my process] and I am eager to take concrete [modernist] structures that were rooted in Abstract painting theory and translate them back into painting.” Importantly, through his recreation of spaces from the past, August exposes the imperfections or incongruities of his subjects, thereby subverting the modernist agenda as well as the impulse to idealization.

Ian August has presented his art in exhibitions across Canada for the last decade, including local group shows Supernovas (Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2006), 26/Two-Sicks/Too-Six… (Gallery 1.1.1., 2006) and All of a Sudden… (PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts, 2013). He has been awarded grants for his work from the Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. August received his Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) Degree from the University of Manitoba School of Art in 2004. In 2011 he completed his Master of Fine Arts Degree at York University in Toronto where he mounted the solo thesis exhibition Quarter Past Eleven. The following year August spent several months in Berlin and the rest of Germany researching the Bauhaus school and the dissemination of its ideas to North America. This project resulted in a series of paintings and drawings shown at Golden City Fine Art in Winnipeg (2012) and in the current exhibit RE: BUILD THEM.

The film “Bauhaus: The Face of the Twentieth Century” (ArtHaus MUSIK, 1994) will be screened in Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall on November 18 at 4:00 p.m. followed by discussion with the artist and art historian Dr. Oliver Botar.

Gallery 1C03 hours: Monday – Friday: 12:00 – 4:00 p.m., Saturday: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Closed Sundays and Remembrance Day..

Admission is always free and everyone is welcome. Wheelchair accessible.

Ian August - Factory 

Artsfest buzz!

Gallery 1C03 is excited to be a part of Artsfest 2013 - UWinnipeg Cultural Treasures! 


Check out all of the exciting programming that's happening on campus at this link. 

Right now there's a live art display on Spence Street as part of UWSA's Freestyle Festival. 

Then at 12:30 p.m. in Eckhardt-Gramatte Hall there is a debate between Sir Kenneth Robinson and UWinnipeg Dean of Arts Dr. Glenn Moulaison about creativity and the school system. 

At 2:00 p.m. you can drop by the University of Winnipeg Archives on the 5th floor of the campus library to attend the opening reception of fabulous exhibits organized by the Archives, United Church Archives and Anthropology Museum. 

Or you can attend a panel discussion on campus architecture in the Richardson College for the Environment starting at 2:30 p.m. 

And that's only today!

Gallery 1C03 presents the exhibition "Boys Club"

Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg proudly presents

Boys Club
September 27 – October 26, 2013

Public reception: Thursday, October 3, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. at Gallery 1C03
Featuring remarks by University of Winnipeg President & Vice-Chancellor Dr. Lloyd Axworthy at approximately 4:30 p.m.

Panel Discussion: Friday, October 25 at 12:30 p.m. in Room 2M70 (2nd floor of Manitoba Hall) at The University of Winnipeg

Linus Woods, Ho Lakota (Peace and War), 2005, acrylic and oil on canvas, 61" x 48".

Collection of The University of Winnipeg. Gift of Anonymous Alumnus Donor.

Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg is pleased to invite you to the opening of Boys Club, a group exhibition of artworks from the University’s collection that explores representations of masculinity. Boys Club features paintings, drawings, prints and photographs by Canadian artists David Barbour, H. Eric Bergman, Kelly Clark, Ivan Eyre, E. J. (Ted) Howorth, Yousuf Karsh, Gerry Kopelow, Bill Lobchuk, Tom Lovatt, Murray McKenzie, Tony Tascona, Patrick Treacy, Linus Woods and others. Boys Club is organized as part of Artsfest 2013 – UWinnipeg Cultural Treasures, a campus wide celebration of arts and culture that runs September 27 – October 4, 2013.

With their images ranging from the 1930s to the most recent decade, several of the artists in Boys Club offer a means to consider diverse interpretations of the male figure.  Captivating portraits that show subjects singly and in groups, metaphorical personages, and collaged compositions that deal with the construction of identity via fragments of memory, history and popular culture will be on display.

The exhibition also considers the significant impact that male-centred collectives of the 1960s and 1970s have had on the local art scene and includes examples of the mid-20th century modernist aesthetic that was embraced by several prominent Manitoba male artists.

A panel discussion related to the exhibition moderated by Boys Club curator Jennifer Gibson and featuring speakers Dr. Bruno Cornellier, Bill Kirby and Kegan McFadden will take place on Friday, October 25 at 12:30 p.m. in room 2M70 (2nd floor of Manitoba Hall) at The University of Winnipeg.

Gallery 1C03 hours during Artsfest & Culture Days: September 27: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., September 28 & 29: 12:00 – 4:00 p.m., September 30 – October 4: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Regular Gallery 1C03 hours: Monday – Friday: 12:00 – 4:00 p.m., Saturday: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Closed Sundays and Thanksgiving Day.

Admission is always free and everyone is welcome. Wheelchair accessible.

For more information contact:
Jennifer Gibson, Director/Curator, Gallery 1C03

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Artsfest 2013!

We here at Gallery 1C03 hope you had a lovely summer. We are back on-line and excited to promote a campus-wide event that launches in 4 weeks: Artsfest 2013 - UWinnipeg Cultural Treasures!

What is Artsfest you might ask? It's a celebration of The University of Winnipeg’s fascinating art, anthropology and archives collections! Artsfest opens with a gala event on the evening of September 27 co-hosted by Len Cariou and Wanda Koop. The festival features multiple exhibitions, including Gallery 1C03’s presentation of the exhibition Boys Club. Exhibitions will be complemented by musical and theatrical performances from The Downtown Jazz Band, Virtuosi Concerts and Theatre Projects Manitoba as well as the University of Winnipeg Student Association’s Freestyle Hip-Hop Festival.

Click here for more information about Artsfest events and festival hours!

Another great Herstory piece - 6 more days to see it!

Alison Newton (1890-1967), Market Stalls, c.1940-1949, watercolour, 25.4 x 30.5 cm. Photo: Larry Glawson.

 
Born in Scotland, Alison Newton attended art school in Edinburgh. She arrived in Winnipeg with her parents in 1910 and was hired as an advertising and catalogue illustrator for the T. Eaton Company. When the production of the Eaton’s catalogue was taken over by Brigdens in 1914, she worked for them as a detail artist until she married two years later. After that time, Newton took courses at the Winnipeg School of Art and was able to focus on her artistic career. Newton was an accomplished watercolourist who studied privately under Walter J. Phillips. Her images of Winnipeg, Gonor and Lake of the Woods, created in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, have been exhibited locally and across Canada. Newton is best-known for charming scenes that portray immigrants from various cultures engaging in tasks of daily life: working in fields, grading vegetables, washing clothes and, as in this scene, attending market stalls. Newton moved to Toronto in 1952, where she lived until her death. [Source: (Re)Visiting the Collection: Selections of Manitoba Art from The University of Winnipeg (Winnipeg: Gallery 1C03, 1998): 23.]

 You only have 6 more days to view this work and others in the exhibition Herstory: Art by Women in The University of Winnipeg Collection at Gallery 1C03.