The exhibition The Closer Together Things Are, currently in the University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG), is co-curated by Shannon Anderson and Jay Wilson and featuring the work of artists Kathleen Hearn, Laura Letinsky, Ève K.
Gallery One
Michel de Broin
Blowback
Gallery Two
Soheila Esfahani
The Immigrants
The exhibition continues at UWAG from November 9 to December 16, 2017.
Soheila Esfahani is a Waterloo Fine Arts Alumna (BA 2003).
Paddy Johnson is the founding Editor of Art F City and maintains a column on digital art for Artnet.
Sovereign Acts
Rebecca Belmore, Lori Blondeau, Dayna Danger, James Luna, Shelley Niro, Adrian Stimson, Jeff Thomas
Curated by Wanda Nanibush
Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-kwe curator, image and word warrior, and community organizer. Currently she is the inaugural curator of Canadian & Indigenous Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Lisa Lipton is a Maritime-born multidisciplinary visual artist and musician who received her MFA from the University of Windsor and BFA from NSCAD University. She has attended multiple residencies and exhibited nationally and internationally in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Windsor, Winnipeg, New York, Detroit, Texas, Berlin, Amsterdam, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Sobey Art Award.
THE IMPOSSIBLE BLUE ROSE is an ambitious multidisciplinary video installation by Lisa Lipton. It follows the artist’s travels from the fictional town of Greysville across North America, to Los Angeles, Vancouver and beyond.
Tony McAulay was born and raised in England. He studied art at college in the late sixties and early seventies and his influences then were Minimalism and Constructivism. In the late seventies and early eighties he developed interests in video and audio.
Sumaira Tazeen, the 2018-19 Kitchener artist in residence, will give a talk on her work.