Mendel Podcast v3 Episode 4
This episode features a conversation with Jayce Salloum about his expansive mid-career survey, history of the present. Saskatoon based painter, Michèle Mackasey speaks about her portrait project and Artists by Artists mentorship participant Karla Griffin introduces her exhibition Coming and Going. Music for this episode has been provided by economics and Slow Down, Molasses. Happy listening!
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Credits (songs in order of appearance)
economics – spoiled brats (A/D VOL 1)
economics – giants (A/D VOL 1)
economics – ghosts (A/D VOL 1)
Slow Down, Molasses – Feathers (Walk Into The Sea)
Links
economics
Slow Down, Molasses
Carole Epp – Artist Feature
Carole Epp creates provocative ceramic sculptures that reference kitsch figurines, lowbrow art and consumer culture. In her Artists by Artists exhibition, the politics of innocent dreams, Epp’s figurative tableaux explore human experience — death and love, hope and failure, family and social pressures.
Carole Epp lives and works in Saskatoon. She has exhibited her work locally, nationally and internationally and is editor of the popular ceramic arts blog, Musing About Mud.
Olia Mishchenko – Artist Feature
Originally from Ukraine, Olia Mishchenko is based in Toronto. Her intricate pen and ink drawings often look like blueprints for intuitive and illogical buildings, yet they speak more to individual resistance to the controlling characteristics of architecture. Here, in her remote university and Don Blanche series, Mishchenko considers the utopian intent of two experimental models for integrated and communal space. There is, she suggests, ongoing tension between the relative permanence of architecture and the transience of human desire.
In this audio feature, recorded at the Mendel Art Gallery, Mishchenko elaborates on her work in the exhibition Habitaptation (April 15 to June 12, 2011) and offers insight into her art practice.
Ruth Cuthand – Artist Feature
RUTH CUTHAND: BACK TALK is a comprehensive, mid-career retrospective of one of Saskatchewan’s most significant contemporary artists. Cuthand was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, in 1954, and is of Plains Cree and Scottish ancestry. Her works “talk back” to mainstream media and colonial society, addressing the frictions between cultures, the failures of representation, and the political uses of anger in Canada.
In this video feature, Ruth Cuthand and exhibition curator, Jen Budney, explore the exhibition and elaborate on Cuthand’s practice.
Mendel Podcast v3 Episode 2
This episode features Ruth Cuthand and her mid-career retrospective, Back Talk, Olia Mishchenko, and Karine Giboulo from the exhibition Habitaptation and Artists by Artists mentorship participant Carole Epp. Music for this episode has been provided by Saskatoon non profit music promotion enterprise, vive music. Happy listening!
Joanne Lyons – Artist Feature
Lyons has a diverse art practice that includes video, photography, drawing and mixed-media installation. She received her BFA and MFA from the University of Saskatchewan, and has exhibited nationally in solo and group shows. Her video installation, Kaleidoscope, entices viewers with dizzying interplays of colour, while her most recent installation suggests a watery menagerie, offering a space of reverie and mystery.
In this audio feature, recorded at the Mendel Art Gallery, Lyons describes her work in the exhibition Wonderment (Jan 21 – April 3, 2011) and reflects on her creative process.
Joanne Lyons – Artist Feature by Mendel Art Gallery
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