19 January to 2 April 2007

 

Michael Hosaluk:
Containment

 

Michael Hosaluk explores new territory in Containment, his first solo exhibition at the Mendel Art Gallery.

 

For this installation work, Hosaluk uses a series of life–size chair structures as the basis for an investigation of form as well as notions of control and restraint.

 

Monumental wood forms stripped of decorative elements change shape throughout the installation. Both the scale and presentation represent a dramatic departure in Hosaluk’s practice.

 

Curated by Alexandra Badzak.

 

 

Rebecca Belmore:
blood on the snow

Rebecca Belmore is one of Canada's most influential performance artists. Her work is a hybrid that unites elements from her Aboriginal heritage with contemporary events.

 

This arresting installation, now in the Permanent Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery, evokes a horrific history (the women and children left dead in the snow at Wounded Knee) and silence.

 

blood on the snow explores ideas that are present in many of Belmore’s performance works: fabric which covers the body, simple repetitive techniques such as wrapping, binding and stitching.

 

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Jane Ash Poitras:
Consecrated Medicine

One of Canada’s pre-eminent artists, Jane Ash Poitras is known for her expressive mixed-media assemblages.

 

Her works have explored the impact of colonialism, both past and present, as well as the political and spiritual strength of indigenous peoples of the Americas through juxtaposition of personal and historic imagery.

 

Organized and circulated by the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Consecrated Medicine is the artist’s investigation of traditional non-western medicines and the secrets of plants.

 

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The Articulations:
Conex-Us

The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made.

 

Conex-Us is the first in a series of four exhibitions entitled Articulations. Aboriginal Curator-in-Residence Adrian A. Stimson’s first curatorial project investigates the process of curation, that being a process of identifying and organizing of both artists and artworks in order to further knowledge.

 

Using a collaborative model, Adrian chose four artists and in turn each artist chose another artist and repeated this once again for a total of twelve artists. The artists come from diverse backgrounds, each part of the creative economy of Saskatoon.

 

This process begins to reveal the nuances within the curatorial practice, enounces that include: choice, thematic, cohesion, aesthetic, happenstance and imagination. In essence, this exhibition considers collaboration as a relationship between curator, artist and object, the act of connecting people and material culture through a thematic concept.

 

Participating Artists include:
César Romero, Wes Fyck, Dany Rousseau, Thirza Cuthand, Rick Pilling, Robert C. Anderson, Dane Moore, Megan Morman, David Folk, Lorna Russell, Norm Dallin, Donna Wawzonek, Lucie Chan, Tammi Campbell, Emily Rosamond, Luis Jacob, Laura Margita, Janine Miedzik, Deborah Margo, Carl Zimmerman, Helen Pridmore, Cindy Baker, Donna Szoke, Todd Gronsdahl, Lee Henderson, Stan Channing, Mitchell Wiebe, Leah Garnett, Denton Frederickson, John Murchie, Ellen Moffatt, Diana Savage, Emily Rosamond, Tara Wells, Vera Greenwood, Felipe Diaz, Jake Hardy, Matt Feyld, Bart Gazzola, Clark Ferguson, Donna Akrey, Yuka Yamaguchi, Jennifer Crane, Sue Johnson.

 

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19 January to 26 March 2007

 

artistsbyartists:
Joan Scaglione / Ruth Chambers

 

This installation of artistsbyartists features the work of artists Joan Scaglione and Ruth Chambers.

 

Joan Scaglione receives inspiration from both the cosmic spiritual force moving through time/space, and nature as an authentic model of the interconnectedness of creation. Her archetypal structures reveal a process of becoming. Elements of her practice explore mythic traditions in which the psyche wrestles with itself in a process of transformation. Scaglione is a sessional instructor at the University of Regina and at the Neil Balkwill Centre.

 

Ruth Chambers' installations employ a range of media and techniques that includes hand-building, new technologies, and found objects. She has exhibited her work both nationally and in the United States. Chambers is a founding member of Petri’s Quadrille, a Regina–based artists’ collective. She received an MFA from the University of Regina in 1994, where she is now an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts.

 

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