The Fine Arts Building (FAB) Gallery marks its 25th anniversary with a diverse and exciting season of exhibitions. The work of professional artists and designers, as well as students completing their formal training, will be highlighted in graduating student exhibitions, important traveling shows and other exhibitions organized by the Fine Arts Building Gallery.
Western houses don't work in the North. But what kind of modern structure does? A Canada Research Chair reaches across disciplines and cultures to come up with the answer.
The art work of Art and Design professor Allen Ball will be featured along with other Canadian Forces Artists Program (CFAP) participants in an art exhibition at Canada Place (Vancouver) to commemorate Canadian Forces and remembers Soldiers Lost in War.
Lyndal Osborne's printmaking and installation come together in a significant new traveling exhibition. "Where Rivers Meet Sea" begins its tour at The Rooms in St. John's, Newfoundland until December 2. Curator Melinda Pinfold, a University of Alberta Art and Design alumnus, has written an accompanying catalogue.
Professor Sean Caulfield has had several interdisciplinary, collaborative projects that have either recently been featured in Edmonton or will be doing so in the near future. He will also be holding a solo exhibition during the month of October at the Scott Gallery in Edmonton.
Associate Professor Allen Ball will be presenting a solo exhibition, entitled, "The Wordless Book and other deserts", at Gallery @ 501 in Sherwood Park, from November 2 – December 21, 2012. The opening reception will be held at 7pm on Friday, November 2, 2012.
Two new permanent faculty members have been hired by the department, starting this fall term. Assistant Professor Natalie Loveless is an art historian with a contemporary focus, and Assistant Professor Jesse Thomas joins the painting staff.
The Department of Art and Design and the Fine Arts Building Gallery are pleased to announce that Gavin Renwick's exhibit Counterpoint will be extended to October 13, 2012.
The work the charming 48-year-old Dundee native is doing is a complicated and fascinating matter. First approached by Dene aboriginal northerners, later hired by our federal government, he's currently Canada Research Chair in design studies at the University of Alberta. The designer/artist/architect is involved in an exercise in trust and, to some degree, healing - a long-due acceptance that modern building and architecture in the western subarctic should buck imperial tradition and finally meet the needs of its indigenous culture, instead of looking like matchboxes.
Maria Whiteman's basement studio is full of animals. There are photos of pickled pigs and deer in jars, stuffed birds perched on stands. A film of a hand caressing a taxidermy bear plays on her computer. Her two dogs, rescued from the Edmonton Humane Society, flop onto blankets and steal pencils from the drawing table.
The ESKER Foundation in Calgary has opened an expansive new gallery space. The inaugural exhibition, The New Alberta Contemporaries, has been described as a "snapshot of emerging contemporary art in Alberta. It's a celebration of rising talent, a gathering point for dialogue, and exchange of ideas, and interaction of the province's art institutions."
Andrea Kastner, a graduate of the University of Alberta Department of Art and Design (MFA Painting 2012), has been selected as a finalist for the 14th annual RBC Canadian Painting Competition.
Husband and wife printmakers Sean Caulfield and Takiko Taniguchi work in their home studio.
An art exhibit that highlights the struggles and triumphs of Edmonton's inner city is on display at Enterprise Square as part of The Works Art and Design Festival.
The University of Alberta has been awarded a new Canada Research Chair, five renewals and one advancement worth a total of $7.1 million, the federal government announced on March 13. Among these is Art and Design professor Gavin Renwick, named as Tier 2 CRC researcher, a title that comes with a $500,000 award paid out over five years. It is given to emerging researchers who are acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field.
As part of the prestigious dOCUMENTA (13) exhibition taking place this year in Kassel, Germany, the Banff Centre will be hosting an art residency/workshop called The Retreat. Two members of the U of A Art and Design department have been selected to attend this event: MFA graduate student Brad Necyk (Intermedia/Drawing) and contract drawing instructor Caitlin Wells.
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This call for submissions is open to current U of A Department of Art and Design graduate students and senior undergraduate students. Quotationalism is a call for visual work to question, meditate on and rework the problem of visual quotation. It will provide a forum for response to and redefinition of the objects that will be on view in the first exhibition of the China's Imperial Modern series -- itself an exploration of the place of the copy in the painter's practice in imperial China. Both shows will run concurrently at the University of Alberta during The Works.