Faculty news

Assistant Professor, Rodney Konopaki and Rhonda Neufeld ('92) will be included in Scapes: Landscape, Seascape, Escape, a group exhibition at Headbones Gallery in Vernon, BC. They will be exhibiting selections from Chatham Spin I and II – two recently completed portfolios of linocuts.

Konopaki and Neufeld have been working collaboratively to make art for the last nine years.

HEADBONES GALLERY | 6700 OLD KAMLOOPS ROAD, VERNON
JUNE 4 – JULY 16, 2016
 | 12:00 PM - 6 PM, TUESDAY - SATURDAY

Print Media Studio Technician Shinsuke Minegishi ('98) and Shop Technologies Manager Vanessa Hall-Patch take part in a curated group exhibition, Edditional Tools: Digital-Traditional Printmaking at Project Space Gallery through March 4, 2016.

Curator Rhea Nowak will present a closing talk, March 3 at 3pm.

Malaspina Printmakers is pleased to present alumnus David Khang’s exhibition The tank, the poem, and the uniform.

The exhibition examines various colonial histories through new work that expands on performances and installations he created over the past ten years. The printed triptych, diptychs, postcards, and game board reference the game Monopoly through their use of colour, composition, and graphics. By replacing the content of Monopoly with new content including depictions of military characters and slogans relating to historical events of national and international conflict, Khang draws attention to the relationship between militia, capitalism, colonialism, gameplay, and propaganda.

Trading Routes: Grease Trails, Oil Futures is a publicly-engaged, trans-disciplinary art and research project undertaken in the midst of a liminal moment in Canadian history. In the pursuit of the nation’s place among world energy superpowers, debates have emerged about the benefits and social and environmental risks associated with rapid changes brought about from investment in fossil fuel industries.

Sessional faculty member Erdem Taşdelen (MAA '10) is interviewed in Canadian Art about his recent collaborative project with Turkish-Swedish artist Meriç Algün Ringborg, titled Investigations on Artistic Subjectivity.

The Canadian Society for Asian Arts has partnered with Nikkei National Museum in Burnaby, British Columbia for the presentation of Mingei: Japan’s Enduring Folk Arts. Mingei, or people’s art, will be presented in an exhibit from the collection by Amaury Saint-Gilles, published in his book Mingei: Japan’s Enduring Folk Art. 

The exhibit is curated by Professor Emeritus, Sam Carter, along with Margo Palmer and Sherri Kajiwara.

Amaury Saint Gilles collected Mingei (min=people, gei=art) from across Japan during the 1980s. Amaury’s passion and understanding of Mingei was inspired by the writings of legendary revered scholar Soetsu Yanagi. 

Newly appointed Assistant Professor Mark Igloliorte is featured in a solo exhibition at Grunt Gallery. Hailing from Newfoundland, Mark joins us August 1 as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Visual Arts and Material Practice, Audain School of Visual Arts.

Diptychs features over a hundred observational works of still lifes and studio vignette paintings, a series that has been ongoing since 2010. Painted upon torn phonebook paper, Igloliorte uses this practice to explore ideas of place – both the studio interior and at the city, town or whole region the phonebook paper indexes.

Surrey Art Gallery is presenting Views from the Southbank II: Moments, Reflections, Intervals, the second of three exhibitions celebrating the Gallery’s 40th anniversary. The exhibit features portraits of people and places in Surrey and the surrounding area by 29 different artists, including:

Emily Carr is pleased to take part in the Reel to Real Behind the Scenes Expo, taking place at the VanCity Theatre, April 16, 2015 as part of the Youth Media Conference Expo.