The
Department
of
Fine
Arts
and
UWAG
(University
of
Waterloo
Art
Gallery) present
the
third thesis
exhibitions
by
Master
of
Fine
Arts
(MFA)
candidates
from
the
graduate
program
in
Fine
Arts
at
the
University
of
Waterloo.
MFA
Thesis
gives
the
campus
and
community-at-large
an
opportunity
to
see
the
end
result
of
two
years
of
intensive
research
and
studio
production
by
emerging
visual
artists.
While
MFA
thesis
exhibitions
will
be
installed
on
site,
the
gallery
remains
closed
in
response
to
the
ongoing
pandemic
and
current
lockdown.
Both
exhibitions
“open"
on
the
UWAG
website
July
8
with
updated
exhibition
documentation
to
be
posted
on
July
13.
Carrie
Perreault
Pacing
the
House
Pacing
the
House is
an
exhibition
of
sculptures
and
drawings
that
use
material
inquiry
to
reframe
childhood
trauma
into
a
state
of
investigation.
By
surveying
the
work
through
a
feminist
approach
to
autotheory,
Perreault
temporarily
suspends
the
doubt
she
has
thrown
into
the
stories
she
has
told
herself
and
instead
articulates
them
by
creating
objects
and
installations
that
reflect
these
conceptual
intensions.
Her
practice
involves
a
mode
of
creation—embodied
disassociation
at
time—that
sits
between
emotional
immediacy
and
a
process
of
gathering
what
has
been
lost.
Using
repetition
and
the
multiple
as
a
meditative
mechanism
provides
grounding.
The
groupings
of
objects
that
make
up
the
individual
artworks
fend
off
ideas
of
scarcity
and
provide
manageable
space
for
frightening
experiences.
Carrie
Perreault’s
recent
exhibitions
and
projects
include period
of
adjustment,
Niagara
Artists
Centre,
St.
Catharines;
and Show.19,
Cambridge
Art
Galleries,
curated
by
Iga
Janik.
In
2019,
she
published 'period
of
adjustment', a
poster/pamphlet
with
essays
by
Sky
Gooden
and
Lucy
R.
Lippard,
and ‘The
Artist
Cookbook
Vol.
1’, featuring
52
artist’s
favourite
recipes,
with Vol.
2 set
for
release
in
Fall
2021.
Perreault
has
received
grants
from
the
Ontario
Arts
Council,
Toronto
Arts
Council,
Canada
Council
for
the
Arts,
and
the
Social
Sciences
and
Humanities
Research
Council
(SSHRC).
She
also
serves
as
a
member
of
the
Executive
Committee
on
the
York
South-Western
Tenant
Union.
Carie
Perreault
lives
and
works
in
Toronto/Tkaronto.
Maria Simmons
Rat,
Plastic,
Wood
Rat,
Plastic,
Wood is
an
exhibition
of
hybrid
sculptures
centring
the
physical
manifestation
of
interspecies
intra-action
and
natural
forms
of
contamination-as-collaboration.
A
central
structure
of
wood
and
plastic
becomes
the
locus
of
boundaryless
activity
where
soil,
yeast,
fermentation,
hardtack,
garbage
all
share
space
and
interact.
While
making
your
way,
you
may
collide
with
fruit
flies
and
the
aromatics
of
fermenting
pine,
noodles,
dirt,
and
rotting
banana.
You
may
hear
the
low
rumble
of
a
dehumidifier,
the
wet
sizzle
of
dry
soil
sucking
up
water.
Nothing
is
inert,
everything
is
potentialized.
Maria
Simmons
investigates
potentialized
environments
through
the
creation
of
multidisciplinary
sculpture
and
installation.
She
has
recently
exhibited
at
The
Plumb,
Ed
Video
Media
Art
Centre,
Art
Gallery
of
Hamilton,
and
Hamilton
Artists
Inc.
She
has
received
grants
from
the
Ontario
Arts
Council
and
a
nomination
for
the
Hamilton
Arts
Award.
Maria
Simmons
is
from
Hamilton.
Emovere
Series
(details),
Carrie
Perreault,
2020-21.
Image
courtesy
of
the
artist.
Rat,
Plastic,
Wood
(detail),
Maria
Simmons,
2021.
Image
courtesy
of
the
artist.
Carrie
Perreault
Rat,
Plastic,
Wood