OCAD University

Friday February 24, 7:30 Doors/ 8 pm Screening

@ OCADU, 100 McCaul Street, Room 190

Co-presentation with OCAD University

Part of Winter 2017

Pleasure Dome presents: Wrik Mead, Local Hero

With a moving-image practice spanning 30 years, and a stalwart, ongoing dedication to the molding of young artist minds at OCAD University, Toronto-based media artist Wrik Mead is truly a local hero. His distinct short-form works combine an animator’s patience with the reflexivity of the DIY psychodrama, producing brilliant first-person narratives of desire, difference and accommodation. Mead’s intelligent, sensitive parables are an intoxicating, visceral mix of painstaking pixilation, fairy-tale allegory and queer-identity. This special retrospective will be held at OCAD University—Mead’s alma mater and place of work for over 20 years.

Faculty of Art Associate Professor Diane Pugen has curated a retrospective of work by former OCAD faculty Nobuo Kubota.

FCP Events proudly presents the first-ever retrospective exhibition showcasing works OCAD alumna Barbara Klunder.

Whether designing her own fonts or handmade sweaters and carpets, illustrating children’s books or Jazz Festival posters, creating an embroidered book for the Dalai Lama or a Rolling Stones T-shirt, Barbara Klunder has explored and mastered many artistic categories with ease.

Presented in association with David Kaye Gallery.

The FCP Gallery is located on the street level in the retail area of the First Canadian Place Complex.
FCP Gallery viewing hours are 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Through powerful images that implicate the body, performances that address history and memory, and gestures that evoke a sense of place, OCAD alumna Rebecca Belmore is known for creating multi-disciplinary works that reveal a long-standing commitment to the politics of identity and representation.

Rebecca Belmore comprises a selection of work that spans the course of her significant career, drawing out connections between early performances and later sculptures, photographs and videos through recurring metaphors that are as provocative as they are poignant. In Belmore’s work, the classical reclining figure, for example, is bound in cloth, suspended or scarred, disrupting an otherwise passive gaze and asking viewers to reflect on their relationship to the practice of looking.

Born in Upsala, Ontario and currently living in Vancouver, Belmore has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, including two solo touring exhibitions, The Named and the Unnamed, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2002 and 33 Pieces, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga, 2001. She was Canada's official representative at the Venice Biennale in 2005 and has participated in the Sydney Biennial and the Havana Biennial.

Rebecca Belmore is organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Daina Augaitis, chief curator/associate director and Kathleen Ritter, assistant curator.

This exhibition offers unique insight into the loops and knots, searching lines, and spatial planes that comprise the work of former OCAD President, Ron Shuebrook. Anchored by several recent, large-scale oil paintings, the exhibition traces back his concerns and achievements, sampling five decades of creative insights. From ink drawings made as a student, through charcoal works that are marked as much by erasure as by charcoal, to luminous exploratory watercolours, the exhibition traces his commitment to a rigorous abstract language.

Shuebrook’s work builds upon the insights of abstract modernist painters to develop material structures that reflect our current times. He has long aspired to integrate formal, pictorial, and material structures into evocative objects of contemplation that attest to human continuity and contemporary experience.

Biography
Shuebrook exhibits his work nationally and internationally. More than 50 public galleries, museums, and corporations have acquired his paintings, drawings, prints, and wall constructions. He holds a B.Sc. in art education (1965) and a M.Ed. in art education (1969) from Kutztown University, PA., as well as an MFA from Kent State University, Ohio (1972). His work as an artist, professor, and academic administrator have had great influence on Canadian visual culture.

The OCAD Student Union is proud to invite you to their annual Year End Student Retrospective. This curated selection of work showcases a diverse array of contemporary issues, as well as lighthearted elements of wit and whimsy, and all things in between.

Featuring nearly 100 artists and designers from all years and departments, this exhibition aims to provide a glimpse into some of the amazing work being done at OCAD. The Student Union wishes to use this opportunity to extend their congratulations and recognition to the entire student body.

Live: Will Alsop in Conversation

Join us for this public lecture celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Sharp Centre for Design!

It's been called "audacious and delightfully strange." 10 years later, the iconic Sharp Centre for Design continues to make a bold statement.

Famed British architect Will Alsop addresses his experience of designing and building the Sharp Centre for Design at OCAD U, and how this has informed his work over the last ten years. Moderated by Christopher Hume, Toronto Star architecture critic.

Seating is limited. Please register today to reserve your spot! 

www.ocadu.ca/alsoprsvp

Check-in opens at 6:00 p.m.
Please arrive by 6:45 p.m. or your seat will be released.

An annual end of year exhibition sponsored by the Student Union

The Retrospective has been successfully mounted at OCAD University for the past 6 years. The show is entirely produced, curated, juried, and installed by students, featuring works from all years and disciplines. The Retrospective is an exciting opportunity to showcase and juxtapose art and design practice at OCAD U.

(Limit 4 pieces per person created within the past year)

Submission Form

Important Dates

Submissions Accepted: Thursday, March 13 to Monday, March 31

Jury Period: Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Confirmation Email: Wednesday, April 2

Collection of Work: Accepted work will be handed in on Monday, April 7 in Room 287 from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. Hanging will take place Tuesday April 8 in the Great Hall. All students with entries are encouraged to help hang and prepare the exhibit.

Show Dates: Wednesday, April 9 to Thursday, April 18, 2014

Opening Reception: Wednesday April 9

Remove Work: Work must be removed on the final day of the show, Thursday April 18. Any work not picked up will be brought to the Student Union Office. Any work not removed from the office within the following week will be disposed of.

Richard Fung is Associate Professor in OCAD U's Faculty of Art

The Dr. David Chu Program in Asia Pacific Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, and its co-sponsors are thrilled to present a retrospective on the work of Richard Fung, the renowned Toronto-based video artist, writer, cultural theorist, activist, and educator.

Fung’s videos have been screened and archived throughout the world and he has been widely recognized with awards such as the Bell Canada Award for Lifetime Achievement in Video and the Toronto Arts Award for Media Art. In addition to his artistic work and writing, Fung teaches at OCAD University.

Beginning in 1985 with Orientations – his pioneering video on queer sexuality and its intersections with race and class – Fung’s creative and often highly experimental works have questioned normative understandings of history and memory, temporality, sexuality, identity, colonialism, empires, racism, classism, labour, authenticity, diasporic communities, the body, illness, trauma, food, writing, and so much more. Tracing diasporic movements and communities as well as the complex and constantly changing identities of Asians and others in places across the globe – most especially North America and the Caribbean – Fung’s works inspire us to “reorient” ourselves toward both the future and the past.

ReOrientations: A Retrospective on the Works of Richard Fung
At Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Avenue

Please register for individual program events at the links below:

Friday, October 25:

4 to 6:30 p.m.:
- Screenings: Orientations (1985, 56 Min.) and School Fag (1998, 17 Min.)
- In Conversation with Richard Fung; Chair: Nayan B. Shah (Professor and Chair of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California)
Register

7:30 to 8:50 p.m.:- Screenings: My Mother’s Place (1990, 49 Min.), Sea in the Blood (2000, 49 Min.), and Islands (2002, 9 Min.)
Register
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Saturday, October 26:

2:15 to 5:30 p.m.:
- Screenings: Dirty Laundry (1996, 30 Min.) and Rex vs. Singh (2008, 30 Min.)
- Roundtable: Chair: Rinaldo Walcott (Associate Professor, Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education, OISE, University of Toronto). Panelists: Kass Banning (Lecturer, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto), Roland Sintos Coloma (Associate Professor of Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, OISE, University of Toronto), Ramabai Espinet (Sessional Lecturer of Caribbean Studies, University of Toronto; Writer and Critic), Lisa Lowe (Professor of English and American Studies, Tufts University), Monika Kin Gagnon (Professor and Interim Chair of Communications Studies, Concordia University).
Register

7 to 9 p.m. at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema:
- Screening: Dal Puri Diaspora (2012, 80 Min.)
- Q&A with Richard Fung
Purchase tickets

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ReOrientations Projections at OCAD University
October 24 to 29:
Jehad in Motion, 2007
Landscapes, 2008
Screening at 49 McCaul Street, Toronto

munkschool.utoronto.ca/ai/feature/reorientations-a-retrospective-on-the-works-of-richard-fung/