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How can I be OK with the e/and of the world?
Jessica Irene Joyce
July 18 – August 1, 2024
Reception: Thursday, July 18 from 5-7PM
artLAB Gallery
EVENT:
Join Jessica Irene Joyce and Ashar Mobeen for an exhibition tour and discussion.
Tuesday, July 30 from 12-1PM
How can I be OK with the e/and of the world? creatively repurposes painting’s formal and material conventions to its own ecological aims. Landscape and portraiture flow around and through each other, urging viewers to look at the world instead of away from it. Scenes from Mount Pleasant Cemetery and Sherwood Fox Arboretum depict transformative cycles of life and death throughout the changing seasons.
In 2019, I began reading Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014) and quit after three chapters, not knowing what to do with the terror and despair it inspired. Inviting these emotions into my painting practice allows me to process anxiety arising from reading about (and living through) climate change. Through this project, I continue to learn and enact the responsibilities urgently demanded by the Climate Emergency, while exploring my relationship to the land colonially known as London, Ontario.
artLAB Gallery
JL Visual Arts Centre
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
© 2024; Department of Visual Arts; Western University
Each summer at the Mattress Factory, artists and educators from a variety of disciplines come together with local youth to engage in hands-on projects that inspire and initiate conversations about the community. Children learn about the history of the museum and of the neighborhood and explore artistic and practical ways to improve the places that we live.The summer of 2012 featured three different sessions of Community ArtLab, with themes like Utopia, Super Hero Snack Time, and The Power of Play.
Each summer at the Mattress Factory, artists and educators from a variety of disciplines come together with local youth to engage in hands-on projects that inspire and initiate conversations about the community. Children learn about the history of the museum and of the neighborhood and explore artistic and practical ways to improve the places that we live.The summer of 2012 featured three different sessions of Community ArtLab, with themes like Utopia, Super Hero Snack Time, and The Power of Play.
Each summer at the Mattress Factory, artists and educators from a variety of disciplines come together with local youth to engage in hands-on projects that inspire and initiate conversations about the community. Children learn about the history of the museum and of the neighborhood and explore artistic and practical ways to improve the places that we live.The summer of 2012 featured three different sessions of Community ArtLab, with themes like Utopia, Super Hero Snack Time, and The Power of Play.
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How can I be OK with the e/and of the world?
Jessica Irene Joyce
July 18 – August 1, 2024
Reception: Thursday, July 18 from 5-7PM
artLAB Gallery
EVENT:
Join Jessica Irene Joyce and Ashar Mobeen for an exhibition tour and discussion.
Tuesday, July 30 from 12-1PM
How can I be OK with the e/and of the world? creatively repurposes painting’s formal and material conventions to its own ecological aims. Landscape and portraiture flow around and through each other, urging viewers to look at the world instead of away from it. Scenes from Mount Pleasant Cemetery and Sherwood Fox Arboretum depict transformative cycles of life and death throughout the changing seasons.
In 2019, I began reading Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014) and quit after three chapters, not knowing what to do with the terror and despair it inspired. Inviting these emotions into my painting practice allows me to process anxiety arising from reading about (and living through) climate change. Through this project, I continue to learn and enact the responsibilities urgently demanded by the Climate Emergency, while exploring my relationship to the land colonially known as London, Ontario.
artLAB Gallery
JL Visual Arts Centre
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
© 2024; Department of Visual Arts; Western University
over and over and over and
Curated by Katie Lawson
Tia Bates , Masha Kouznetsova, Danielle Petti
Exhibition: October 10 – 31, 2024
Reception: Thursday, October 10, 4-6PM
artLAB Gallery
To work with residue, refuse, salvage, and waste necessitates moving through the world with openness and curiosity, slowly gathering materials over time and through various means. This is not mere 'resourcefulness' but a major principle in terms of how Tia Bates, Danielle Petti, and Masha Kouznetsova work and understand value in sourcing the material and immaterial aspects of their artwork. In the exhibition over and over and over and each artist has cultivated their own approach to the transformation of found materials, a further translation of their embodied experiences. The distortion or alteration of materials occurs through pulping, setting, melting, illuminating, recording, and transmitting with paper, water, cement, beeswax, light, soundwaves, acetate and metals. A concept, a rock, an image or a sound is revisited time and time again, revealing itself bit by bit. Matter is never fixed, but ever changing through multiple iterations of a singular installation, and time is embraced as medium. Over and over and over and over and over and…
artLAB Gallery
JL Visual Arts Centre
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
© 2024; Department of Visual Arts; Western University
over and over and over and
Curated by Katie Lawson
Tia Bates , Masha Kouznetsova, Danielle Petti
Exhibition: October 10 – 31, 2024
Reception: Thursday, October 10, 4-6PM
artLAB Gallery
To work with residue, refuse, salvage, and waste necessitates moving through the world with openness and curiosity, slowly gathering materials over time and through various means. This is not mere 'resourcefulness' but a major principle in terms of how Tia Bates, Danielle Petti, and Masha Kouznetsova work and understand value in sourcing the material and immaterial aspects of their artwork. In the exhibition over and over and over and each artist has cultivated their own approach to the transformation of found materials, a further translation of their embodied experiences. The distortion or alteration of materials occurs through pulping, setting, melting, illuminating, recording, and transmitting with paper, water, cement, beeswax, light, soundwaves, acetate and metals. A concept, a rock, an image or a sound is revisited time and time again, revealing itself bit by bit. Matter is never fixed, but ever changing through multiple iterations of a singular installation, and time is embraced as medium. Over and over and over and over and over and…
artLAB Gallery
JL Visual Arts Centre
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
© 2024; Department of Visual Arts; Western University
Each summer at the Mattress Factory, artists and educators from a variety of disciplines come together with local youth to engage in hands-on projects that inspire and initiate conversations about the community. Children learn about the history of the museum and of the neighborhood and explore artistic and practical ways to improve the places that we live.The summer of 2012 featured three different sessions of Community ArtLab, with themes like Utopia, Super Hero Snack Time, and The Power of Play.
Each summer at the Mattress Factory, artists and educators from a variety of disciplines come together with local youth to engage in hands-on projects that inspire and initiate conversations about the community. Children learn about the history of the museum and of the neighborhood and explore artistic and practical ways to improve the places that we live.The summer of 2012 featured three different sessions of Community ArtLab, with themes like Utopia, Super Hero Snack Time, and The Power of Play.
Each summer at the Mattress Factory, artists and educators from a variety of disciplines come together with local youth to engage in hands-on projects that inspire and initiate conversations about the community. Children learn about the history of the museum and of the neighborhood and explore artistic and practical ways to improve the places that we live.The summer of 2012 featured three different sessions of Community ArtLab, with themes like Utopia, Super Hero Snack Time, and The Power of Play.
Exhibition: May 30 – June 20, 2024
Reception: Thursday, May 30 from 5-7PM
artLAB Gallery
This exhibit is a culmination of Leith Mahkewa’s time as the Indigenous Artist in Resident at Western University. Although the focal art piece of her residency was the production of a cradleboard adorned with beadwork, she also produced many beaded items, which are pictured in the exhibit.
While in residence Leith explored a variety of new art mediums: woodworking, linocut printing, leather handbag making, silversmithing and haute couture embroidery which add to her artistic repertoire and increase her creative skills.
Beadwork is Leith’s primary art medium of choice. Through this residency she followed a vision to create a new and innovative artwork while still conserving the original intent of the cradleboard. This was her first attempt at making a cradleboard and then adorning it with beadwork. The design and creation of the board itself is not a new concept, cradleboards have been used for centuries but Leith had never made one. The completion of this board and accompanying beadwork took approximately 7 months, a relatively short time compared to the 12 years she held this idea and waited for an opportunity to make her idea come to life. The inspiration for this project came from Leith’s personal experience using a cradleboard for her children and her desire to create one herself using beadwork as the main focal point. She promotes the use of the cradleboard and its value to the mother, baby and family.
One of the goals Leith had during her residency goes beyond the boundaries of UWO’s campus and Western’s Wampum Lodge to her community, Oneida Nation of the Thames. Leith’s intentions while at Western was to help increase the visibility and use of cradleboards by those within her community. The avenue that she chose was to encourage a group of women to explore their beadwork journey and to encourage them to bring the cradleboard home for themselves to use or for their families to see its utility and beauty.
The group gathered on campus and in Oneida, where they learned beading techniques, shared food, and comradery. All were gifted a cradleboard to bring home to their families. It’s important to note that beading for Leith is primarily done alone. However, the time spent creating and sharing with these four ladies motivated her to complete her own works and helped to foster the possibility of sharing future beadwork teachings. The beaded wraps for each cradleboard created by Faye Summers, Shelley Elijah, Twyla Antone and Samantha Doxtator are integral to this exhibit and a once in a lifetime experience which sustains the utility of cultural items.
Leith would like to acknowledge all those who mentored, encouraged and at times listened to her creative ramblings. The journey to this point was not done alone, there have been many people who helped to make this process enjoyable and a success. She recognizes the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Western Ontario for the providing the space for the promotion and growth of the Indigenous Artist in Residence program without which she would not have had the resources to work independently and create art as she sees it.
© 2024; Department of Visual Arts; Western University
Interview commentary with Jan Hankins and Jason Miller here: youtu.be/v9HtPz9uTUU Jan Hankins: 11 SEPTEMBERS.
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Eleven years ago Jan Hankins installed âOut of the Janitorâs Closetâ in ArtLab. He continues his commentary on American politics with this installation of painting and sculptureâa timely topic in an election year.
Interview commentary with Jan Hankins and Jason Miller here: youtu.be/v9HtPz9uTUU Jan Hankins: 11 SEPTEMBERS.
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Eleven years ago Jan Hankins installed âOut of the Janitorâs Closetâ in ArtLab. He continues his commentary on American politics with this installation of painting and sculptureâa timely topic in an election year.
WESTERN PERFORMS!
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19 / 12:30-1:30PM
Join us in the artLAB Gallery on Wednesday, October 19 at 12:30PM for Western Performs! featuring University Singers and Les Choristes with Drs. Mark Ramsay and Tracy Wong.
Silence – Nancy Telfer
Dawn – Emily Parker
Rise up, My Love, My Fair One – Healey Willan
Antara – Tracy Wong
Mata Del Anima Sola – Antonio Estevez
Meditation (Whatever Happens) – Joshua Shank
This event is presented in partnership with the Don Wright Faculty of Music and SASAH.
Artlab Gallery
JL Visual Arts Centre
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
© 2022; Department of Visual Arts; Western University
Each summer at the Mattress Factory, artists and educators from a variety of disciplines come together with local youth to engage in hands-on projects that inspire and initiate conversations about the community. Children learn about the history of the museum and of the neighborhood and explore artistic and practical ways to improve the places that we live.The summer of 2012 featured three different sessions of Community ArtLab, with themes like Utopia, Super Hero Snack Time, and The Power of Play.
Each summer at the Mattress Factory, artists and educators from a variety of disciplines come together with local youth to engage in hands-on projects that inspire and initiate conversations about the community. Children learn about the history of the museum and of the neighborhood and explore artistic and practical ways to improve the places that we live.The summer of 2012 featured three different sessions of Community ArtLab, with themes like Utopia, Super Hero Snack Time, and The Power of Play.
over and over and over and
Curated by Katie Lawson
Tia Bates , Masha Kouznetsova, Danielle Petti
Exhibition: October 10 – 31, 2024
Reception: Thursday, October 10, 4-6PM
artLAB Gallery
To work with residue, refuse, salvage, and waste necessitates moving through the world with openness and curiosity, slowly gathering materials over time and through various means. This is not mere 'resourcefulness' but a major principle in terms of how Tia Bates, Danielle Petti, and Masha Kouznetsova work and understand value in sourcing the material and immaterial aspects of their artwork. In the exhibition over and over and over and each artist has cultivated their own approach to the transformation of found materials, a further translation of their embodied experiences. The distortion or alteration of materials occurs through pulping, setting, melting, illuminating, recording, and transmitting with paper, water, cement, beeswax, light, soundwaves, acetate and metals. A concept, a rock, an image or a sound is revisited time and time again, revealing itself bit by bit. Matter is never fixed, but ever changing through multiple iterations of a singular installation, and time is embraced as medium. Over and over and over and over and over and…
artLAB Gallery
JL Visual Arts Centre
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
© 2024; Department of Visual Arts; Western University
AJE 22!
Exhibition: February 1 - 15, 2024
Reception: Thursday, February 1 from 6-8PM
People’s Choice voting: 6-7PM
AJE Award Announcements: 7PM
Celebrating twenty-two years the "Annual Juried Exhibition" continues to be one of the Department of Visual Arts most highly anticipated undergraduate exhibitions. This diverse show supports the production of new work made in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, print, video, and photography. Exhibited works were selected by a professional jury who consider creativity, concept, materiality and technique. This year’s show is indicative of the resilience and dedication our students continue to demonstrate.
artLAB Gallery
JL Visual Arts Centre
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
© 2024; Department of Visual Arts; Western University