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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Hello from Richmond 205

Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 4:00am to Sunday, April 17, 2016 - 4:00am

Playfully, hello = hi = hey = how are you = what’s up = friends...

HELLO acknowledges that this is the first cohesive introduction of the 2015 /2016 MFA and MDES Interdisciplinary program’s work to the larger OCAD student body and faculty.
Initially considered to be a shout to attract attention, the word “hello” continues to grow in its potential to signify inclusivity as well as speak to the wonderful diversity of knowledge, skill sets, and perspectives represented through the work.
We invite you to engage with the show and then say “hello” so that we can continue the conversations that work to inform our evolving practices.

Written on behalf of IAMD first year cohort by
Jill Price (BFA 93, OT 2007, MFA 2017)

Exhibiting Artists and Designers

  • Fallon Andy
  • Carlina Chen
  • Tom Feiler
  • Quendrim Hoti
  • Karina Iskandarsjah
  • Iveta Karpathyova
  • Pascaline J. Knight
  • Max Lupo
  • Mariam Magsi
  • Annette Mangaard
  • Alexandra Majerus
  • Julian Majewski
  • Jill Price
  • David Constantino Salazar
  • Eli Schwanz
  • Samantha Sherer
  • Katrina Tompkins
  • Mel Worku

 

Venue & Address: 
The Great Hall - 100 McCaul
Website: 
http://www.ocadu.ca/academics/graduate-studies/interdisciplinary-masters-in-art-media-and-design.htm
Cost: 
Free
Poster for 1st Year IAMD Student Exhibition Hello From Richmond 205

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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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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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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Amy Meleca: Notes on an Eternal Return

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - 3:00pm to Thursday, March 24, 2016 - 10:00pm

Notes on an Eternal Return is an exhibition of photo-based self-portraits – or more specifically, ‘performative self-images’ – acting in support of a Master of Arts thesis paper of the same title. In this exhibition, ‘photograph’ and ‘self-portrait’ become loosely defined through the performance-based process of photographic self-representation. My image is recorded and then layered, fragmented, distorted and reassembled in order to disrupt traditional ways of looking and interpreting representations of the female body. By playing along the spectrum of visibility and invisibility, presence and absence, coherence and incoherence, singular and multiple, I present myself as a spectral subject, a collection of traces, acting in constant resistance of containment through the reiteration of my self

Amy Meleca is a Toronto-based artist and researcher, currently in her second year in the Interdisciplinary Master’s of Art, Media, and Design program at OCAD University. Amy completed her BFA in Print Media with a minor in Psychology at York University in 2014. Her research interests include representations of the body in Surrealist art and thought, the archive, performance art, writing artists/artists writing, artist books, and multiples.

Venue & Address: 
YYZ Artists' Outlet 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 140 Toronto, ON
Email: 
am14ph@student.ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000
Cost: 
Free
artwork by Amy Meleca
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Insignificant Surfaces: a screening of videos by Colin Clark

Saturday, March 19, 2016 - 12:00am to 3:00am

The Loop Collective and Arraymusic co-present an informal screening of recent digital videos by Colin Clark. These durational videos quietly sound the cinematic technicity of the sea, trees, plants, animals, and people.

This event continues our series of screenings in 2016 celebrating the Loop Collective's 20th anniversary.

Colin Clark is a video artist, composer, IAMD MFA candidate, and design researcher at OCAD University’s Inclusive Design Research Centre. Since 2011, he has produced a growing body of digital videos that explore the relationships between technology, nature, and time, often incorporating custom-made image and sound processing techniques. His music has been performed by Arraymusic, the neither/nor collective, the Draperies, and his own ensembles, Lions and Fleischmop. Colin's soundtracks for experimental films by Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof and R. Bruce Elder have been shown at film festivals internationally. He has curated exhibitions with the Loop Collective featuring the work of Chris Welsby, Michael Snow, John Cage, and others. Colin also develops Flocking and Aconite, web-based creative software tools for sound synthesis and video processing used by artists and musicians around the world.
 

Venue & Address: 
Arraymusic Studio 155 Walnut Ave., Toronto
Email: 
cclark@ocadu.ca
Phone: 
416-977-6000
Cost: 
Free
Insignificant Surfaces poster with event info and film still

IAMD Grad Student JP King at Nuit Blanche

THERE IS NO AWAY
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 4:00am

Jp King (IAMD MFA '16) and Sean Martindale (IAMD alum, MFA '10) will be presenting There is no Away, a sculpture and site-specific video installation as a "Special Project" in this year’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. The collaborative project examines our consumer habits and waste systems, and is sponsored by Solid Waste Management Toronto.

Jp King is a transdisciplinary media artist and scholar, whose practice-led research examines material culture, social engagement, contemporary mythology, masculinity and speculative futures. Currently, he is completing his MA at OCAD U in Toronto, operates the experimental publishing lab Paper Pusher, is a designer and editor at Papirmass, sits on the Board of Directors at Art Metropole, and most recently was the guest director of Spark Box Studio Artists’ Residency. His social practice projects have been installed at the Art Gallery of York University, Whippersnapper Gallery, and the Klondike Institute of Arts and Culture, amongst others. His collage, design and writing has been featured in publications such as Uppercase, Fast Company, Carousel, Penguin UK, and Chronicle Books. He lives in Toronto with his wife and collaborator, Kirsten McCrea.

Sean Martindale is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary artist and designer currently based in Toronto, Canada. His interventions activate public and semi-public spaces to encourage engagement, often focused on ecological and social issues. His playful works question and suggest alternate possibilities for existing spaces, infrastructures and materials found in urban environments. Frequently, Martindale uses salvaged goods and live plants in unexpected ways that prompt conversations and interaction.

There is no Away will be on view at Nathan Phillips Square on October 3, 2015, from sunset to sunrise.
http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/project.html?project_id=1583

More about JP King
http://www.jpking.ca/

More about Sean Martindale
http://www.seanmartindale.com/

IAMD Grad Student Featured in Feminist Art Conference

Feminist Art Conference Poster
Tuesday, September 22, 2015 - 4:00am

Valerie Carew (MFA '16), a graduate student in the Interdisciplinary Master's of Art, Design and Media, will have work featured in the Feminist Art Conference Multidisciplinary Art Exhibition, which opens Sept. 24 in the Great Hall at 100 McCaul.

As part of the exhibition, Valerie will be part of a panel on Sept. 26 from 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., discussing “Motherhood: Roles, Expectations and Identity,” and will also be presenting her "Body Coiling" performance the same day at 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., followed by a moderator-led Q & A with the audience.

The exhibition runs until Sept. 27, with an accompanying conference from Sept. 23-27, 2015.

About the Artist:
www.valeriecarew.com

Feminism Art Conference:
http://factoronto.org/

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