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!

Cinema Politica screening tonight - "Reel Injun"

Together as part of the international documentary screening network Cinema Politica, Gallery 1C03 and The University of Winnipeg Students’Association (UWSA) present the film Reel Injun (Canada, 2009). Directed by Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond, Reel Injun has won three Gemini Awards and a Peabody Award. It has been selected for screening by The University of Winnipeg Aboriginal Students' Council.

Synopsis:

Hollywood has made over 4000 films about Native people; over 100 years of movies defining how Indians art seen by the world.

Reel Injun takes an entertaining and insightful look at the Hollywood Indian, exploring the portrayal of North American Natives through the history of cinema.

Travelling through the heartland of America, Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond looks at how the myth of “the Injun” has influenced the world’s understanding — and misunderstanding — of Natives.

With candid interviews with directors, writers, actors and activists, including Clint Eastwood, Jim Jarmusch, Robbie Robertson, Sacheen Littlefeather, John Trudell and Russell Means, clips from hundreds of classic and recent films, including Stagecoach, Little Big Man, The Outlaw Josey Wales, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Atanarjuat the Fast Runner, Reel Injun traces the evolution of cinema’s depiction of Native people from the silent film era to today.

Please stay for a discussion after the film.

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. Click here for campus and parking maps.

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.

Art Education Outreach at Gallery 1C03

Thanks to all of the students and teachers from Sister MacNamara School for coming to visit us at Gallery 1C03 this week! The students were led through an art education program for our current exhibition -- Jane Tingley's Plant (iPod) Installation -- by Gallery 1C03 volunteer art educators Ahlam Al-Khateeb, Sylvia Dueck, Victoria Nikkel and Sheila Soulsby. Gallery 1C03 is proud of our community art outreach program; if you would like to book a visit with us for one of our upcoming exhibitions, please contact Gallery Director/Curator Jennifer Gibson at j.gibson@uwinnipeg.ca.

Gallery 1C03 & UWSA to screen "To the Tar Sands"

Together as part of the international documentary screening network Cinema Politica, Gallery 1C03 and the University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA) present the film To the Tar Sands in Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall on Thursday, November 8 at 6:30 p.m.

Directed by Emmy award winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Jodie Martinson, To the Tar Sands (Canada, 2008) was selected for screening by the UWSA Bike Lab.

The film follows a group of nineteen young environmentalists as they cycle over 1,300 kilometres northbound across Alberta to witness the impacts of Alberta’s tar sands boom firsthand. They talk to farmers, moms and dads, an urban planner, oil industry workers, the chief of a First Nations community and others along the way asking “How has the tar sands boom affected you?” As the kilometres click away, they excavate into their own complicity with Alberta’s rush to develop the tar sands.

Produced on a shoestring budget off of the back of a bicycle, To the Tar Sands screened to a sold-out crowd at the Calgary International Film Festival and was officially selected for the DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver.

Please stay for a panel discussion after the film on “Activism, Cycling and Empowerment”, facilitated by Liz Williams of The University of Winnipeg Campus Sustainability Office. Panelists include David Dorning (Coordinator, UWSA Bike Lab), Andrée Forest (Volunteer, UWSA Bike Lab and Ice Rider), Alana Lajoie-O’Malley (Manager, Campus Sustainability Office), and Anika Terton (Public Education and Outreach Coordinator, Climate Change Connection).

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. Click here for campus and parking maps.

Gallery 1C03and 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 To the Tar Sands.

Plant (iPod) review & interview with Jane Tingley

Kaeleigh Ayre has written a great review of Jane Tingley's Plant (iPod) Installation for The Uniter. You can read it here. Thanks Kaeleigh!

And two weeks ago, Jane was interviewed on CKUW 95.9 FM's "Eat Your Arts & Vegetables" program. You can download and listen to the interview by clicking on one of the October 18, 2012 program archive files at CKUW's site here. Heartfelt appreciation to EYA&V hosts Aleem Khan and Derek Brueckner for welcoming Jane to their show!