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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Gallery Opening Today - HERSTORY

We are looking forward to today's opening of  HERSTORY: Art by Women in The University of Winnipeg Collection today from 4:00 - 6:00 pm at Gallery 1C03. 

We are also launching publications by Chris Reid and Dominique Rey.

Herstory is curated by graduate student Laura White as part of The University of Winnipeg's Master of Cultural Studies, Curatorial Practices program.

There will be a remarks by Pat Bovey and MLA Sharon Blady at 4:30. Cash bar and free nosh will be available. All are welcome!

Gallery 1C03 presents Herstory: Art by Women in the University of Winnipeg Collection

Gallery 1C03 at the University of Winnipeg proudly presents 

Herstory: Art by the Women in The University of Winnipeg Collection
March 7-April 6, 2013

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 7, 4:00-6:00 pm
Includes launch of Dominique Rey and Chris Reid publications. 

Panel Discussion with Herstory Curator & Artists: March 27 at 12:30 pm

In conjunction with International Women's Month celebrations, Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg is pleased to present Herstory, a group exhibition featuring work by twenty-one Manitoba women artists represented in the University's collection.

Herstory is the first time in the collection's history that art created solely by significant female artists is being shown in the gallery. The exhibition and its related forthcoming publication trace the contributions these women -- all who, at one point or another, have called Manitoba home -- have made on the local, national and international art scenes. Herstory highlights the themes and subjects these artists have examined in their work, from portraiture and the body to landscapes and narratives, and considers how "the feminine" and feminist notions (if any) have been approached and interpreted. 

The exhibition is comprised of twenty-five two-dimensional pieces produced in various media such as painting, photography, drawing, prints and mixed media  works during the past seven decades. Artists include Eleanor Bond, Sheila Butler, Caroline Dukes, Aganetha Dyck, G.N Louise Jonasson, Wanda Koop, Rosemary Kowalsky, Alison Newton, Daphne Odjig, Dominique Rey, Sheila Spence, Eva Stubbs and Diana Thorneycroft, among others. 

To complement the exhibition's opening reception on March 7, Gallery 1C03 is pleased to launch two of its latest publications which highlight the work of Manitoba women artists Dominique Rey and Chris Reid. 

A panel discussion related to the exhibition with Herstory curator Laura White and artists Dominique Rey, Eva Stubbs and Diana Thorneycroft will take place at Gallery 1C03 on March 27 at 12:30 pm.

Gallery 1C03 gratefully acknowledges financial assistance for Herstory  from The University of Winnipeg and the Manitoba Government, Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism.

Gallery 1C03 hours: Monday - Friday 12:00-4:00 pm; Saturday 1:00-4:00 pm. Closed Good Friday. Admission is always free and everyone is welcome. Wheelchair accessible. 

Frank Shebageget opens tomorrow

The installation of Frank Shebageget's show is coming along (see above from day 1 of the installation). Frank will deliver his artist talk tomorrow, January 17, at 1:00 p.m. in room 2C13 (2nd floor of Centennial Hall). Immediately following his talk Gallery 1C03 will host the opening reception for his self-titled solo exhibition.  For more information about the show and the artist, please see our previous posts here and here.  Hope you can join us!

Frank Shebageget exhibition

Happy new year everyone! With the start of 2013, Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg is excited to open our next exhibition:

Frank Shebageget
January 17 – February 16, 2013

Artist talk: Thursday, January 17 at 1:00 p.m. in Room 2C13 (2nd floor of Centennial Hall), University of Winnipeg
Opening reception at Gallery 1C03: Thursday, January 17, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
 
Gallery 1C03 is proud to present Frank Shebageget, a self-titled solo exhibition of two new sculptural installations by this respected Ottawa-based Anishinabe artist.

Shebageget uses modernist forms and repetition to critically investigate symbols of cross-cultural contact that have personal historical resonance. This show includes a new iteration of his acclaimed large-scale work Cell, originally produced in 2010 for a solo exhibition at Carleton University Art Gallery, as well as a series of smaller works titled Castor’s Castoreum.

Constructed from gillnets arranged into a cube formation and suspended in the gallery to create an effervescent structure, Cell references the importance of fishing to Aboriginal communities such as the one in which Shebageget grew up. Castor’s Castoreum, presented in one of the University of Winnipeg Anthropology Museum window vitrines, is a series of cast glass perfume bottles rendered in the shape of beaver castors. Alluding to the effects of European ideas of beauty on First Nations people, these pieces were inspired by the artist’s childhood memories where hunting and trapping were integral parts of family life.

Born and raised in the small community of Upsala in Northwestern Ontario, Frank Shebageget (Ojibway) now lives and works in Ottawa. Shebageget graduated with his A.O.C.A. from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1996, and received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Victoria in 2000. He has had solo shows at Carleton University Art Gallery, Surrey Art Gallery, TRIBE and Gallery 101, among others. Shebageget’s art has been presented recently in group exhibitions at the Museum of Art and Design in New York, the Institute of American Indian Arts in Sante Fe, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Museum London, the University of Lethbridge and at Urban Shaman Gallery. His work can be found in the collections of the Ottawa Art Gallery, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Dorothy Hoover Library of the Ontario College of Art and Design, the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, as well as several private collections. Shebageget has been the recipient of numerous awards for his art from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation.

Gallery 1C03 will produce a publication related to this exhibition featuring a critical essay by contemporary art curator and writer Jenny Western.

Gallery 1C03 gratefully acknowledges financial assistance for this project from The University of Winnipeg, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts. We are also grateful for the partnership of The University of Winnipeg Anthropology Museum.

Gallery 1C03 is located on the first floor of Centennial Hall at The University of Winnipeg and is open Monday – Friday from 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. The University's Anthropology Museum is on the fourth floor of Centennial Hall and is open during regular University hours. Both venues offer free admission.


Image: Frank Shebageget, Cell (detail), 2010, aluminum, nylon fishing net, steel fishing hooks, string, airline cable. Photo: David Barbour.

Frank Shebageget coming soon & holiday greetings

Here at Gallery 1C03 we are eagerly anticipating our first exhibition of 2013: a solo show of two sculptural installations by Ottawa-based Anishinabe artist Frank Shebageget! Frank will be presenting a new iteration of Cell in the gallery (an installation view of the original work when it was shown at Carleton University Art Gallery can be seen above) as well as smaller works titled Castor's Castoreum which will be shown in one of the University of Winnipeg's Anthropology Museum window vitrines.

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 17 from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. at Gallery 1C03.
Public Artist's Talk: Thursday, January 17 at 1:00 p.m. in Room 2C13 (2nd floor of Centennial Hall) at The University of Winnipeg.

If you'd like to know a little more about the artist, you can visit his website. You can also check out this great interview on Vimeo. More details on the exhibition will follow in the new year.

In the meantime, we wish you a lovely holiday season!

Jane Tingley: Plant (iPod) Installation

Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg proudly presents

 

JANE TINGLEY

Plant (iPod) Installation
October 18 – November 17, 2012

Opening reception at Gallery 1C03: Thursday, October 18, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Artist talk: Friday, October 19 at 12:30 p.m. in Room 2M70 (2^nd floor of Manitoba Hall), University of Winnipeg

Gallery 1C03 at The University of Winnipeg is proud to present Plant (iPod) Installation, an interactive sculptural sound piece created by artist Jane Tingley. We are especially pleased to host this exhibition in conjunction with send+receive: a festival of sound v.14.

Plant (iPod) Installation explores the poetics involved in subverting the traditional hierarchy which positions plant life below human life and evokes the possibility of developing technologies that are nature-centric rather than human-centric. Tingley’s work also considers the active relationship between objects in the space of the gallery and the body of the viewer. As visitors engage with the tree-like plant sculptures of Plant (iPod) Installation, they will activate the sound system embedded in the objects which will trigger breathing sounds and narratives that are “played to the plants”. A combination of noise files convolved with sound files of breathing results in a techno-natural aural experience, while the narratives are drawn from diverse cultures and highlight the importance of the oral tradition with stories about learning from the environment. Through Plant (iPod) Installation, Tingley successfully brings elements of technology and nature together for a thought-provoking dialogue.

Jane Tingley is a Winnipeg-born artist living and working in Montréal. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) degree from the University of Manitoba School of Art in 1999 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Concordia University in 2006. Tingley uses new media, sculpture, and installation to explore ideas involving identity and contemporary experience. She is a founding member of the Modern Nomads, and has been exhibiting her works and participating in artist residencies across Canada and internationally. Her most recent activity includes residencies at the Museum Quartier in Vienna and at CAMAC in Marnay-sur-Seine in France; Roboexotica and Elektra festivals in Vienna and Montreal; and exhibitions at the Kunstlerhause in Vienna and the National Art Museum of China in Beijing. She has received support for her work from a number of funding agencies, including the Manitoba Arts Council, le Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. In addition to exhibiting Plant (iPod) Installation at Gallery 1C03, Tingley’s work will be included in TECHNOSENSUAL “where fashion meets technology” at the Museums Quartier in Vienna.

Gallery 1C03 gratefully acknowledgea financial assistance from The University of Winnipeg for this project.

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

Image: Jane Tingley, Plant (iPod) Installation (detail), 2011, mixed media, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.