Past Exhibitions
In the ODD Gallery:
April 26 - May 11, 2012
YUKON SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS STUDENT EXHIBITION 2012
Opening Thursday April 26, 2012
7:00-8:00pm at the Yukon SOVA Gallery | 8:00-9:00pm at the ODD Gallery
The Dawson City Arts Society, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in, and Yukon College are pleased to announce the fifth YEAR-END STUDENT EXHIBITION for the YUKON School of Visual Arts (SOVA) 2011‑12 Foundation Year Program. The public is invited to an exhibition of three projects organized by SOVA faculty members Meg Walker, Charles Stankievech and Veronica Verkley.
In the ODD Gallery: OVER THE WIRE
Lize Mogel is the eighth OVER THE WIRE artist to work with the students at Yukon SOVA in a series that pairs a world-class artist with students in Charles Stankievech's 4D course. Particularly chosen for her political engagement with the environment through the tools of art, Lize is well known for her counter-cartography strategies of mapping. She is conducting a project where the students map migratory and moving elements through and around the Dawson City region. Special guests participating in the project include David Neufeld, Parks Canada Historian; Jeff Hamm, Senior Planner for the Dawson Regional Planning Commission; Angie Joseph Rear, Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in elder; and Linda Johnson, former Director of the Yukon Archives and author of the seminal book Kandik Map. The project will take on a variety of forms in the ODD Gallery.
In the Yukon SOVA Gallery: HIVE
An exhibition featuring student projects done in faculty member Veronica Verkley’s 2D and 3D Studio courses. The work spans a wildly diverse array of media and concepts, including investigations in animation, painting, printmaking, 3D exquisite corpse projects, textiles, works on paper, and kinetics. The exhibition encompasses work from all 17 students produced throughout the school year.
On the web: ARTIAC ARREST!
Giant sandwiches, streetside rampages by Caravaggio, exquisite corpses and intricate mechanics are only some of the wide range of art works the SOVA students discuss in their year-end writing project for Meg Walker's English class. Artiac Arrest! will stop you in your tracks and grab your eyelashes until you give in and stay for a while. A blog that offers rare one-on-one interviews between 17 fresh-thinking, passionate art makers.
Visit the blog at artiacarrest.wordpress.com
For more info contact Yukon School of Visual Arts
tel: (867) 993 6390
email: info@yukonsova.ca
March 8 - April 13, 2012
PAUL LITHERLAND FORCE MAJEURE
Opening Thursday March 8, 2012 | Artist Talk at 7:00pm | Reception at 8:00pm
Paul Litherland's wide-ranging practice incorporates themes of masquerade, vulnerability and machismo, explored through photography and multimedia performances. FORCE MAJEURE is a video installation that explores the moment when control is lost or gained. Free-falling subjects float in limbo between imminent landing and freedom of flight.
PAUL LITHERLAND is a visual artist/performer living in Montréal. His exhibitions in national and international venues have been reviewed in the Globe and Mail, Artnews, the New Yorker, the Montreal Gazette, The Hindu (India), Diario Monitor (Mexico) and Excelsior (Mexico). His work can be found in private and public collections such as the Canada Council Art Bank and the Musée du Québec. Recent exhibtions include “Force Majeure” at Galerie Clarke in Montreal, 2010, “Fall Out” at the University of Toronto’s Blackwood Gallery in 2009, performing “Wood vs. Wood” in Berlin 2008, and was part of the “Faking Death” exhibition at the Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC, in January 2006.
With a sound composition by Nancy Tobin, and support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
Photo Credit: Bettina Hoffman
January 19 - February 24, 2012
SARAH SMALIK MY FATHER, THE SUN, & THE HUNGRY GHOSTS
Opening Thursday January 19, 2012 | Artist Talk at 7:00pm | Reception at 8:00pm
Sarah Smalik's multidisciplinary practice spans installation, video/animation, sculpture and performance. Her current work is invested in the polar connection of faith/fear, the parallels of religious/psychedelic experience, and a psychological study of reflection and light. Of Pakistani/Acadian origin, she has lived and worked from sub-Saharan Africa to New York City, and currently finds her base in Calgary, where she graduated with distinction from the Alberta College of Art + Design in 2010.
MY FATHER, THE SUN & THE HUNGRY GHOSTS is a dismantling of the divine, where science and sanctity intersect, and the overlapping study of light and religion reveals a similar paradox: that it may blind you or clarify the way. These hungry ghosts speak of haunting traditions of the past that no longer make sense in the present—yet if we illuminate them we may uncover a beautiful and mysterious truth at the heart. And it sparkles in the dark.
January 5 - 27, 2012
YOUTH ART ENRICHMENT STUDENT EXHIBITION
Artwork created by highschool students from across the Yukon during KIAC's Youth Art Enrichment program will be on display at Robert Service School during the month of January.
Exhibition Reception: Thursday, January 5th, 12 - 1pm at RSS
(Please check in at the office upon arrival)
2011 Workshops:
Handmade Prints with Meshell Melvin, Video Production with Dan Sokolowski, Soapstone Carving with Bud Young and Hand Papermaking with Helen O'Connor
Participants:
• Vera Schall • Amaya Cherian-Hall • Clara Reid • Stephen Coad • Leslie Curry • Violet Rose Robert • Charles Hagar • Shara Layne Kearney • Cassy Ponsioen • Daynika Jim • Brooke Bunce • Alyssa Blanchard • Alicia Grant • Alissa Budzinski • Sruthee Govindaraj • Kristen Sibbeston • Rhyann Mackay • Asia Hyde • Ciara Gabrielle Dawal • Edouard Bourcier • Michaela St.Pierre • Emeraude Dallaire- Robert • Valerie Herdes • Alexis Miller • Dustin JL Sheldon • Elisha Ida • Joshua Johnson • Shaheen Baker • Martha Phillips • Kara Beth Sweeney • Liam Finnegan • Victoria Bolton • Annie Johnsgaard • Logan Pauls • Andrew Michael • Ali Khoda- karami • Alix Ward • Brittany Charlie • Kerstin Charlie • Shannon Combes • Teagan Beemer • David Johnson •
October 27 - December 2, 2011
CAITLIN ERSKINE-SMITH MISSIVES
Opening Thursday October 27 | Artist Talk at 7:00 pm | Reception at 8:00pm
Please join us for the opening of Caitlin Erskine-Smith's Missives in the ODD Gallery. Erskine-Smith's work examines the process of communication through woven pieces that play with language, filters, understanding, expression, and cloth. Many pieces incorporate texts painted directly on the warp and then woven to create blurred messages.
Born in Toronto, Caitlin Erskine-Smith has studied art and design in Europe, South America and at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design. Focusing in textiles, her work incorporates traditional techniques to consider modern conflicts of identity, language, and change. She has exhibited across Canada and internationally, including Unity and Diversity at the Cheongju International Craft Biennale in Korea, Nuit Blanche and Luminato in Toronto, and Nocture in Halifax.
Caitlin gratefully acknowledges support from the Canada Council for the Arts & the Ontario Arts Council
September 22 - October 21, 2011
MITCH MITCHELL CITIES OF THE PRAIRIE
Opening Reception Thursday September 22 at 7:00 pm
Please join us for the opening of Mitch Mitchell's Cities of the Prairie in the ODD Gallery. Born out of subconscious content and sensory memory resulting from time spent in and around the Tar Sands Oil Project in northern Alberta, Mitchell's print series possesses a threatening and poetic quality. Using photography, analog & digital manipulation and photo-intaglio printing techniques, the resulting images portray an incongruous place - a space that lingers with a sense of estrangement and foreboding.
Exhibition Essay by Sarah Fillmore
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