Twilight Hour

Please join us for the first Twilight Talk of the year with UBC Art Historian Jaleh Mansoor.

Drawn through a case study of three artists working in reconstruction era Italy (1949-1963), Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni, Mansoor's first book Marshall Plan Modernism: The Beginnings of Autonomia explores abstract painting as an index of social transition during what was known as ‘miracolo Italiano,’ or Italian Miracle.  Mansoor focuses first on the singularly striking formal and procedural violence of these artists’ works.

Please join us for the second Twilight Talk of the year with Emily Carr alumnus Patrick Cruz.

Patrick Cruz is a Filipino-Canadian artist born in Manila, Philippines. Cruz is currently living and working in Guelph, Ontario where he is pursuing his Masters in Fine Arts at the University of Guelph. He studied Painting at the University of the Philippines and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2010. Cruz’s work adopts aesthetic strategies from folk sensibilities such as ornamentation, decoration and patterning as a means of decolonizing the destabilizing force of modernity and its effects on marginalized cultures.

Twilight Hour Lecture Series

Painters Talking About Painting
Natalie Smith

Tuesday November 18, 2014, 5:30 PM
Room 410B South Building

Twilight Hour Lecture Series

Painters Talking about Painting
Eva Berendes

Tuesday October 14, 2014, 5:00 PM
Room 410B South Building

Eva Berendes’ works interrogate how we establish an object as a painting, or a painting as an object. They examine the constituent elements of image-making and unfold painting as an expanded field of production and a process of layering intervals of various surfaces. 

Twilight Hour Lecture Series

Robert Youds
Monday, October 6th, 5:30pm, room 410B South Building

Robert Youds will be speaking about his work at this year's first Twilight Hour: Monday, October 6th at 5:30pm in room 410B SB.

Robert Youds was born in Burnaby holds a BFA from UVic and an MFA from York University and is currently a Professor of Visual Arts at University of Victoria.

“Since the 1980s, Robert Youds has conducted a singular investigation of the material conditions of the pictorial--a path that has led him from paintings with cut-out apertures through stretched lines of colour made of strands of latex and velvet cushions bound with ropes through to his recent constructions incorporating fluorescent, neon and LED lights” - Barry Schwabsky