Faculty news

What sort of images would appear in an exhibition with the title The Most Violent Thing? Perhaps images of war, disaster, death, torture. This exhibition contains no image of overt violence. Instead, it seeks to explore the possibility that, as Slavoj Žižek put it, "Sometimes doing nothing is the most violent thing to do." The Most Violent Thing presents a group of works that places a demand on the viewer: that she do nothing.

Sheila Hall, Lecturer-Non Regular Faculty and Coordinator Prior Learning Assessment, has been working with Metro Vancouver for the past two years on To Connect a Public Art Project at 111 Alexander Street in Gastown.

To Connect can be understood as an associative process connecting concepts in an open and flexible way. The idea of, "Cognitive Mapping", defines art making as an engagement with environments in an ongoing process.

Ken Singer's (current sessional faculty) exhibition How to Present a Tempest is inspired by art historical representations of meteorological turmoil. Singer’s chromatically intense paintings combine heavily worked surfaces, quasi-biomorphic forms and abstraction.

October 18 to November 15

Leo Kamen Gallery

80 Spadina AVE, Toronto, Ontario

Holger Kalberg (02), current sessional faculty, is exhibiting a solo exhibition Parallax at Monte Clark Gallery.

In his latest work, fragments of imagery are assembled to create unstable tableaus, forms unplaced and dislodged from their original context. Using abstract vocabulary as well as representational segments, the artist constructs a complex world of symbols and signs which border on the edge of recognition, purposely offering the viewer a variety of interpretations.

Neil Campbell's, sessional faculty, solo exhibition Faultline at the prestigious Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York, received a wonderful review from Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine. Saltz recommends Campbell's exhibition over art world heavyweights like Andres Serrano and concludes: "Campbell's show demonstrates that if you see only one good thing in a day of viewing, you've had a good day. That's how strong powerful art is."

Join Susan Stewart, Associate Dean - Integrated Studies, Academic Administration, on the first Thursday of every month at the Vancouver Art Gallery for a three part series considering counter narratives within mainstream feminism.

Associate Professor Liz Magor, explores the relationship of the real to the simulated in provocative ways in her latest exhibition Liz Magor: The Mouth and other storage facilities. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle and the SFU Gallery.

Simon Fraser University Gallery

January 10 – February 21, 2009

Sessional Faculty Kenneth Newby and Aleksandra Dulic, with Martin Gotfrit, will exhibit their interactive audiovisual installation work, in a thousand drops... refracted glances, in the Interactive Arts Program of the ACM Multimedia 2008 Conference from October 27 to October 31, 2008 at Science World.

Associate Professor Peg Campbell's film, What Your Mother Should Know, has been chosen to screen at the Vancouver International Film Festival. A deeply personal narrative, the film explores the hopes and fears in mother-daughter relationships. Using archival family footage and current interviews, Campbell weaves an evocative tapestry of three generations of women.

After participating in the successful group exhibition, Crop Rotation, earlier this summer, Neil Campbell (Sessional Faculty), has a solo show at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. Campell's solo exhibition faultline, inaugurates the new gallery season, and runs September 5th to October 4th.

View the Media Release here.