CROSS SECTION: Florence 2015-16 program exhibition

Friday, April 8, 2016 - 4:00am to Sunday, April 10, 2016 - 4:00am

CROSS SECTION

Opening: Friday April 8, 6-9pm

Exhibition Dates: April 8 - 10, 2016 (12-5pm or by apponitment) 

OCAD University's Off-Campus Florence Program is proud to present CROSS SECTION, a group exhibition highlighting recent work by 24 students working from a wide array of mediums—drawings, prints, collages, paintings, sculpture, installation, photography, sound, video, digital imagery and jewelry. Varying in creative approach, theoretical structure and technical processes, the body of work from these students come together at a cross section as they intersect, coincide, synchronize and exist side-by-side. This European campus offers a facilitated, directed study approach where students develop a body of work in a communal studio setting and study art history amidst a backdrop of the Italian Renaissance. This academic year, the studio component has been coordinated by faculty members Professor Michele White in the Fall semester and Assistant Professor / CLTA Linda Martinello in the Winter semester. 

Students: Jasmine Cardenas Obando | Keith Cooke | Denielle Darrach | Abbey Gagnon | Saba Giani | Megan Hazen | Zahra Lakdawala | Shuan Lee | Rushi Li | Sergej Mileski | Jess Morris-Wazney | Lauren Pyc | Wei Qi | Kate Rogers | Mehrnaz Rohbakhsh | Lisa Rusland | Connie Santos | Emily Schimp | Peter Tran | Angela Tupper | Rocio Soncini | Chloe Wang | Qiuchun Wei | Jess Welch

Instagram: ocadu_florencecampus

 

Venue & Address: 
OCAD U Florence Campus, Via Bonifacio Lupi, 14 (2 Piano), 50129 Firenze
Email: 
lmartinello@faculty.ocadu.ca
CROSS SECTION: Florence 2015-16 program exhibition poster, images of students and artwork along with text of exhibition details

OCAD University's Florence Program Visiting Artist + Speaker Series welcomes Lauren Hall

Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - 4:00am

OCAD University's Florence Program Visiting Artist + Speaker Series welcomes Lauren Hall

OCAD University's Florence Program is hosting a Visiting Artist + Speaker Series which brings six international artists, critics and gallerists to our international campus to engage in artist talks, critiques and individual studio visits. This unique opportunity offers students insight into how a successful international practice is developed as well receiving critical feedback on their independent studio work. 

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University Florence Campus
Email: 
lmartinello@faculty.ocadu.ca
Florence Visiting Artist Series Part II poster, text on background

Live video conference with the 2015-16 Florence Off-Campus Studies group

image of Florence
Monday, March 28, 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Please join us as we connect with our Florence Off-Campus Studies group for 2015-2016 via live video conference to discover the wonderful work that is being created in our Florence Studio this year.  Coffee and treats will be available!

 

Venue & Address: 
100 McCaul St., Room 287
Email: 
vso@ocadu.ca

OCAD University's Florence Program Visiting Artist + Speaker Series welcomes Samantha Stout

Landscape image in Traditional Japanese style
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 - 4:00am

OCAD University's Florence Program is hosting a Visiting Artist + Speaker Series which brings six international artists, critics and gallerists to our international campus to engage in artist talks, critiques and individual studio visits. This unique opportunity offers students insight into how a successful international practice is developed as well receiving critical feedback on their independent studio work. 

Samantha Stout

Samantha Stout is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in scientific investigation of works of art and cultural heritage. She graduated in 2015 from the University of California, San Diego with a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, completing her doctoral thesis with Prof. Maurizio Seracini.  In 2013, she was an invited participant in the CLIR/Clark Colloquium on Preservation and Its Intellectual Framework, which brought leading scholars together to focus on scientific and philosophical discourses surrounding the preservation of Art. Samantha has been working on field projects in Florence since 2011, and is particularly interested in the development of methodological practice for the comprehensive study and preventative conservation of works of art.www.linkedin.com/in/samstout1

The Series is organized by Linda Martinello, Assistant Professor / CLTA, Faculty of Art, OCAD University

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University Florence Campus
Website: 
http://www.linkedin.com/in/samstout1
Email: 
lmartinello@faculty.ocadu.ca
Florence Visiting Artist series poster, text on BG

OCAD University's Florence Program Visiting Artist + Speaker Series welcomes FABRIZIO AFFRONTI

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - 4:00am

OCAD University's Florence Program Visiting Artist + Speaker Series II brings eight international artists, academics and gallerists from Berlin, Florence, Glasgow, London and Milan to OCAD University’s Florence campus studio to engage in artist talks, lectures, workshops, individual studio visits and critiques over the winter semester. This unique opportunity offers students insight into how a successful international practice is developed as well receiving constructive feedback on their process and in-progress and final outcome independent studio work. 

Fabrizio Affronti is the gallery director and owner, of Brand New Gallery in Milan, Italy. The Gallery is a space devoted to Contemporary Art, suspended halfway between a gallery and a center for cultural promotion, a platform where artists, curators, and collectors can meet and exchange ideas. Brand New Gallery is the brainchild of two art historians, Chiara Badinella and Fabrizio Affronti, whose aim is to promote the work of foreign artists known internationally, but as yet unseen in Italy. Availing themselves of the collaboration of important American and European Contemporary Art galleries, Brand New Gallery commissions individual artists to do site-specific projects. The gallery features five to six exhibitions per year, in addition to lectures and seminars on Contemporary Art. www.brandnew-gallery.com

Organized by Linda Martinello, Assistant Professor / CLTA, Faculty of Art, OCAD University

 

 

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University Florence Campus
Website: 
http://www.brandnew-gallery.com
Email: 
lmartinello@faculty.ocadu.ca
Florence Visiting Artist Series Part II poster, text with details of speakers
grey artworks on white gallery wall

SIMON POPE: Visiting Artist coming to the Florence Studio

An arrangement of chairs around a table
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - 5:00am

MARCH 2  SIMON POPE

Simon Pope’s (b. 1966, Exeter, UK) recent art practice is preoccupied with participatory art's engagement with new materialism and concepts of the more-than-human, asking “who else takes part?” This question formed the basis of his practice-led doctoral study at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford (2012-15). Formerly a member of the Net.Art group I/O/D, he represented Wales at the Venice Biennale in 2003. Pope was a NESTA Fellowship awardee (2002-05), a Reader (tenured-Professor) in Fine Art (2005-10) and is currently an Associate Research Fellow of both Birkbeck and Queen Mary, University of London (2014-) and visiting faculty member and supervisor for Transart Institute's MFA in New York City and Berlin. He currently lives near Castiglione di Garfagnana, researching a new project with his partner, (and OCADU alumna) Sarah Cullen. www.tinyurl.com/simonpope

Venue & Address: 
OCADU Florence Studio
Email: 
lmartinello@faculty.ocadu.ca

OCAD University's Florence Program Visiting Artist + Speaker Series welcomes RM VAUGHAN

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 - 4:00am to Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 4:00am

OCAD University's Florence Program is hosting a Visiting Artist + Speaker Series which brings six international artists, critics and gallerists to our international campus to engage in artist talks, critiques and individual studio visits. This unique opportunity offers students insight into how a successful international practice is developed as well receiving critical feedback on their independent studio work. 

APRIL 6 + 7  RM VAUGHAN

RM Vaughan is a Canadian writer and video artist based in Berlin. He is the author of many books and contributes articles on culture to a wide variety of publications. Vaughan’s short videos play in festivals and galleries across Canada and around the world. http://momus.ca/author/rmvaughan/, www.rmvaughan.ca

Organized by Linda Martinello, Assistant Professor / CLTA, Faculty of Art, OCAD University

 

 

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University Florence Campus
poster for the 2016 Florence speakers series

OCAD University's Florence Program Visiting Artist + Speaker Series welcomes STANZIE TOOTH

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 - 4:00am to Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 4:00am

OCAD University's Florence Program is hosting a Visiting Artist + Speaker Series which brings six international artists, critics and gallerists to our international campus to engage in artist talks, critiques and individual studio visits. This unique opportunity offers students insight into how a successful international practice is developed as well receiving critical feedback on their independent studio work. 

APRIL 6 + 7  STANZIE TOOTH

Stanzie Tooth is an MFA candidate at the University of Ottawa 2015. In 2007 she received her BFA from the Ontario College of Art & Design with an award for excellence in painting. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Canada including “60 Painters” at Humber College, an ambitious overview of contemporary Canadian painting. Stanzie is represented by General Hardware Contemporary, Toronto. www.stanzietooth.com

Organized by Linda Martinello, Assistant Professor / CLTA, Faculty of Art, OCAD University

 

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University Florence Campus
Poster for the 2016 Florence speakers series

OCAD University's Florence Program Visiting Artist + Speaker Series welcomes FABRIZIO AFFRONTI

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - 4:00am

OCAD University's Florence Program is hosting a Visiting Artist + Speaker Series which brings six international artists, critics and gallerists to our international campus to engage in artist talks, critiques and individual studio visits. This unique opportunity offers students insight into how a successful international practice is developed as well receiving critical feedback on their independent studio work. 

MARCH 16  FABRIZIO AFFRONTI 

Fabrizio Affronti is the gallery director and owner, of Brand New Gallery in Milan, Italy. The Gallery is a space devoted to Contemporary Art, suspended halfway between a gallery and a center for cultural promotion, a platform where artists, curators, and collectors can meet and exchange ideas. Brand New Gallery is the brainchild of two art historians, Chiara Badinella and Fabrizio Affronti, whose aim is to promote the work of foreign artists known internationally, but as yet unseen in Italy. Availing themselves of the collaboration of important American and European Contemporary Art galleries, Brand New Gallery commissions individual artists to do site-specific projects. The gallery features five to six exhibitions per year, in addition to lectures and seminars on Contemporary Art. www.brandnew-gallery.com

Organized by Linda Martinello, Assistant Professor / CLTA, Faculty of Art, OCAD University

 

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University Florence Campus
Poster for the 2016 Florence speakers series

OCAD University's Florence Program Visiting Artist + Speaker Series welcomes SHANNON BOOL

Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - 8:30pm

OCAD University's Florence Program is hosting a Visiting Artist + Speaker Series which brings six international artists, critics and gallerists to our international campus to engage in artist talks, critiques and individual studio visits. This unique opportunity offers students insight into how a successful international practice is developed as well receiving critical feedback on their independent studio work. 

MARCH 9  SHANNON BOOL

Shannon Bool is inspired by literature, psychology, art history and decoration, among other topics, and she often works with unusual processes such as silk painting, photograms or collaboration with female prisoners. A 2004 master’s graduate of Germany’s prestigious Städelschule, Bool has a practice that draws on arthistorical studies of surface and ornamentation. Her work was featured in 

Phaidon’s 2005 anthology Vitamin D: New Perspectives on Drawing and has shown widely in international venues, including CRAC Alsace, Bonner Kunstverein, MMK Museum für Modern Kunst, Sprengel Museum and Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. www.danielfariagallery.com/artists/shannon-bool

Organized by Linda Martinello, Assistant Professor / CLTA, Faculty of Art, OCAD University

 

Venue & Address: 
OCAD University Florence Campus
list of artists and bios of those speaking in the 2016 Florence speakers series
black and white image of patterns in a figurative shape

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