Proofread: Yvonne Mullock
Proofread, 2023, Film Still
2023–24 Gallery Information
FAB Gallery, 1-1 Fine Arts Building
University of Alberta
(780) 492-2081
gallery@ualberta.ca
Gallery Hours
Tuesday to Friday from 11:00am–5:00pm
Saturday from 12:00pm–3:00pm
Admission is free.
Second floor gallery can only be accessed by stairs at this time. We apologize for this significant barrier to access.
Proofread: Yvonne Mullock
January 16 - February 10, 2024
FAB Gallery, Main Floor
Reception
University of Alberta faculty, staff, students and invited guests
Friday, January 19, 2024 | 7-9 pm | FAB Gallery
About the Show
Proofread, a borrowed term used to describe the process of checking for errors in text prior to printing, is an interactive work comprising print and video, incubated during a nine month visiting artist position in the printmaking department at the University of Alberta.
Citing the traditions and social history of the letterpress, the gallery will transform into an expanded sculptural space whereby audiences can participate in an enlarged word game using a uniquely printed typeface made from clothing donated to the artist from students and friends.
Experienced alongside a video work that reveals the performative print-production through an innovative process, audiences will be invited to arrange the printed one-of-a-kind-font to spell out words and statements using custom made displays on gallery walls. Like a type of ongoing fridge poetry, words will be edited, added to and rearranged, to create an immersive and experiential word play. In a constant state of flux, this evolving printed community message board will be a silent broadcaster of statements and ideas that connect communities and prompt debate around print traditions.
About the Artist
Yvonne Mullock is an artist currently based in Moh’kinsstis/Calgary, Alberta, Treaty 7 Territory and the Métis Nation Region III. Over two decades she has participated in artist-in-residence programmes within Scotland, England, Canada, and the United States and shown in group and solo exhibitions in Oregon, Calgary, Toronto, Fogo Island, Kentucky and Glasgow. Mullock has been awarded grants from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Canada Council for the Arts, Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers and in 2017 was the recipient of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts ‘International Studio Curatorial Program’ residency in New York, USA. Mullock’s work is featured in both private and the public collections of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada. Selected projects include: Harmonia at the Esplanade, Medicine Hat, Alberta; Gift-Love, Manning Hall Commission at Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; ExtraOrdinary Objects at the Glenbow Museum; Dark Horse at Stride Gallery, Calgary; HIT & MISS at Esker Foundation Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary; HOME ECONOMICS Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto and from 2011-15 was Lead Artist for a community based quilt project, Fogo Island Arts, Newfoundland, Canada. Mullock is represented by Norberg Hall Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
Art & Design News
Past Exhibitions (2023-24)
- CodesWitcher: Lisa Mayes, MFA Intermedia
- Built to Last: Architecture, Memory, and the Imaginary Atrium. Works by Alicja Habisiak-Matczak & Alex R.M. Thompson
- want and fear: Emily Legleitner, MFA in Printmaking
- Implicit Grid: Riddhi Patel, MFA Painting
- The Home: Mohammad Abbasi, MFA Painting
- Comic Sense: a Ludic Exploration of 3 Contemporary Comics
Past Exhibitions (2022-23)
- Lasting Legacy: Honoring the History of Visual Arts at Extension
- Emerging Practices: Celebrating Visual Art Certificate Students
- The Institution of Knowledge
- I don't know how, but I'm taller: 2023 Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduation Show
- in flux: 2023 Bachelor of Design Graduation Show
- Know Thyself as a Virtual Reality
- The Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada (2020 or 2021)
- Jill Miller: FUTURE PERFECT
- Yilu Xing, MFA Printmaking: 吃得开 eat the open
- Transitional Impressions: Visualizing Environmental Change
- alissa rossi, MFA Printmaking: The View From Where
- Chelsey Campbell, MFA Printmaking: all of us, also