Yasemin Oncu: de•monstra•tion

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 - 5:00pm to Sunday, April 10, 2016 - 9:00pm

Yasemin Oncu: de•monstra•tion
April 6-10, 1-5 PM daily
Opening Reception: April 6, 6-9 pm

The entry monster in The New Webster Dictionary reads as follows: ‘A plant or animal of abnormal structure or greatly different from the usual type; an animal exhibiting malformation in important parts; a person looked upon with horror on account of extraordinary crimes, deformity, or power to do harm; an imaginary creature, such as the sphinx, mermaid, etc.’ ‘Monster’ entered English in late medieval times from the old French term monstre, which in its turn originated from the Latin root monstrum. The Latin word is derived from the root of 'monere', which means ‘to warn.’ Related to this primary meaning, monere is thought to be also referring to ‘that which teaches’ or ‘that which instructs.’ The latter connotation forms the basis of the current English word 'demonstrate', which is used interchangeably with "to point out, indicate, show or prove."

Venue & Address: 
Gallery 50, 50 Gladstone Avenue
Website: 
http://www.yaseminoncu.com/
Email: 
yo14on@student.ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000
exhibition postcard - de•monstra•tion
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Ashley Snook: Intraspeciation

Friday, April 15, 2016 - 2:30pm to Monday, April 18, 2016 - 8:30pm

Ashley Snook: Intraspeciation 
Gallery Hours: April 15 – 18, 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM 
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 16, 1:30 – 4:30 PM
Thesis Defense: Monday, April 18, 10:30 AM

Intraspeciation is an exhibition consisting of a body of artwork in support of my written Master’s thesis, titled Intraspeciation Within the Ontological Biosphere.

The works displayed in this exhibition investigate the intuitive connection between human and animal. Ideas of human animality are explored through the innate affinity for other living organisms seen in the concept of biophilia. By examining the relationships between human and nonhuman animals and vegetal/botanical life, my work considers a removal of barriers from preexisting dichotomies between species through notions of interconnectivity. This trajectory of biological exploration aims to establish intimacy and animalism between the human, animal and surrounding biosphere by the use of organic and synthetic material through sculpture, installation and drawing.

Venue & Address: 
Allan Gardens Conservatory, 19 Horticultural Ave, Toronto
Website: 
http://ashleysnook.ca/
Email: 
as14qh@student.ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000
Ashley Snook: Intraspeciation
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Robert Cram: To Ash: A Critical Landscape

Robert Cram: To Ash: A Critical Landscape
Friday, April 22, 2016 - 2:00pm to Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 9:00pm

To Ash: A Critical Landscape
Exhibition hours: Friday April 22nd 10am - 5pm, Saturday April 23rd 7pm - 12pm, Sunday April 24th 10am - 5pm.
Opening Reception: Saturday April 23rd 7pm - 12am 

Robert Cram's IAMD MFA thesis exhibition explores the development of the critical landscape through art, design and literary practice. The show will feature the site-based work Ash. Theoretical and sculptural works overseen by Eldon Garnet and Paulette Phillips.

Venue & Address: 
OCAD U Student Gallery, 52 McCaul Street
Website: 
http://www.rmcram.com/
Email: 
rc13oi@student.ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000
Robert Cram: To Ash: A Critical Landscape
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Jennifer Wigmore: REFLEX

Saturday, April 9, 2016 - 4:00pm to Saturday, April 16, 2016 - 10:00pm

Jennifer Wigmore: REFLEX
April 9-16
12-6 PM daily (except for April 11 when the gallery will be closed from 2-5 PM)
Opening reception: Saturday, April 9th, 4 - 8pm

If you're going to teach spontaneity, you'll have to become spontaneous yourself. 

-  Keith Johnstone, Impro for Storytellers, 55.

Materials become scene partners in a maximalist process rooted in painting that enables reflexive exploration. Mis-tint house paint is a symbol of our detachment from materiality and of our avaricious consumption habits. Their hides are the skin of consumerism’s tailings. By collaging, sculpting, weaving and draping them, I allow these skins to embody materiality and explore the dimensions we ascribe to painting.

Venue & Address: 
OCAD U Student Gallery, 52 McCaul Street
Website: 
http://jenniferwigmore.com/index.html
Email: 
jw12nl@student.ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000
Jennifer Wigmore: REFLEX
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Tsema Tamara Skubovius: LAND|MINE

Sunday, April 3, 2016 - 4:00pm to Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 10:00pm

LAND|MINE
Tsēma Tamara Skubovius

LAND|MINE actively deconstructs and (re)construct linkages to the LAND through artistic interventions in the gallery that connects city spaces to the constructed wild; materials to mine sites; and, bodies to the LAND.

Opening Performance: April 3, 3:00 PM
Thesis defence: April 4, 2-5 PM
Closing event: April 7, 6-9 PM (please note this is a private event, you must contact ts14oc@student.ocadu.ca for an invite)

 

Venue & Address: 
OCAD U Student Gallery, 52 McCaul Street
Website: 
http://www.esln.ca/
Email: 
ts14oc@student.ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000
Tsema Tamara Skubovius: LAND|MINE
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Destination: Tomorrow

Saturday, April 16, 2016 - 4:00pm to Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 9:00pm

Join us for the fourth annual Digital Futures’ Masters’ program thesis exhibition, Destination : Tomorrow, showcasing 22 graduate students’ thesis work. This year’s exhibition is rich with digital storytelling, innovative geo-locative interactions and mind-expanding travels in Augmented Reality (AR). Come see how innovation and technology in the 21st century brings us together and changes the way we interact with the world around us.

Public Gallery Hours:
April 16 & 17: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
April 18 & 19: 12 p.m. to 7 p.m.
April 20: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.

More about the Digital Futures' Graduate Program: http://www.ocadu.ca/academics/graduate-studies/digital-futures.htm

 

 

Venue & Address: 
Open Gallery @ 49 McCaul, Toronto
Email: 
elizabethevacoleman@gmail.com
Phone: 
416-977-6000
Cost: 
Free
Poster for DF Graduate Student Group Thesis Exhibition

Ryan Pechnick: Investigations of Phenomena and Materiality

Tuesday, March 29, 2016 - 1:00pm to Friday, April 1, 2016 - 1:00am

The works of art you will find in this space are both interactive and time-based. For each of these, I have posted instructions for how you can start to interact and manipulate the objects and materials in the space. Upon the walls you will also find quotes to reflect upon while you are in between experiencing the different artworks.

I believe that there is something learned through the experience of physical interaction that can only be learned by performing that action with our bodies. In this interdisciplinary master’s thesis work, I am not interested in using material representationally in order to build meaning. Instead, these works focus on how our lived experience can form a greater understanding of our material world that cannot be communicated through verbal means.

Ryan Pechnick (b. 1989 Chicago) is an internationally exhibiting artist who is currently working on his MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design at OCAD University in Toronto. In his interdisciplinary practice, Ryan investigates phenomena found in everyday objects, materials, and spaces using photography, digital video, and sculptural installations.

Exhibition Closing March 31, 5-9 PM.

 

 

Venue & Address: 
OCAD U Student Gallery, 52 McCaul Street, Toronto
Email: 
rp14jm@student.ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000
Investigations of Phenomena and Materiality
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2016 Sculpture/Installation Thesis Exhibitions' Series: Critical Play

Critical Play poster text  on black background
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - 4:00am to Sunday, April 10, 2016 - 4:00am

 

ALL AT ONCE, 2016 Sculpture/Installation Thesis Exhibitions' Series presents: Critical Play by Brad D’Oliveira, Graeme Friend, Danielle Mitchell, Camille Rauton, and Ella Yu

Opening: Thursday, March 31, 7 – 10 pm

OCAD University's Sculpture/Installation Program is presenting a series of seventeen exhibitions featuring the multi-media artworks of its 4th-year Thesis students in professional galleries in Toronto. This series is made possible by the generous support of the Nora Vaughan Bequest to the Sculpture/Installation program and of the Faculty of Art Innovation Fund.

As part of All At Once, OCAD University's Sculpture and Installation Thesis Exhibitions, Critical Play explores a provocative look at how artists can challenge conservative ideas of social and political constructs, in which to engage in ways that break the mold and open up what play can be. 

Venue & Address: 
GALLERY 1313 1313 Queen Street West Wed to Sun, 1pm to 6 pm G1313.org
Website: 
http://webspace.ocad.ca/allatonce/
All at once poster, text on grey background

2016 Sculpture/Installation Thesis Exhibitions' Series: Complicit Settler

Image of toy wild animals
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - 4:00am to Wednesday, April 6, 2016 - 4:00am

ALL AT ONCE, 2016 Sculpture/Installation Thesis Exhibitions' Series presents: Complicit Settler by Karen Pilosof

Opening: Thursday March 31, 7 – 9 pm

OCAD University's Sculpture/Installation Program is presenting a series of seventeen exhibitions featuring the multi-media artworks of its 4th-year Thesis students in professional galleries in Toronto. This series is made possible by the generous support of the Nora Vaughan Bequest to the Sculpture/Installation program and of the Faculty of Art Innovation Fund.

What does it mean to be Canadian? What memories serve in building a narrative as a Canadian? What new knowledges are changing that perception? How can we express views without harming others, but succeed in opening doors to new conversations? How can we leave the past and enter a future where colonialism is only part of our collective history, not our present and not our future? Where do we begin?

 

Venue & Address: 
CREEDS COFFEE BAR 390 Dupont Street Mon- Fri, 7:30 am - 7 pm Saturday, 8 am – 6 pm creedscoffeebar.com
Website: 
http://webspace.ocad.ca/allatonce/
All at Once Poster text of grey background

Esmaa Mohamoud: #000000 VIOLENCE

Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - 4:00pm to Tuesday, April 5, 2016 - 10:00pm

#000000 VIOLENCE is an exhibition that investigates the Black male body in contemporary culture and the (in)tangibility of Blackness through the exploration of athletics—specifically, the sport of basketball. Utilizing the visual vernacular of basketball to delineate structural violence, the works explore contemporary notions of Black masculinity enunciated and examined through the frame of reference of a Black woman.

Venue & Address: 
YYZ Artists' Outlet, Suite 140, 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto
Email: 
em14mk@student.ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000
exhibition postcard - #000000 VIOLENCE
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