Barrie Jones, House Sitting, 2012.
Reception, Artcite 30th Anniversary celebrations and ART’S 1, 000, 050th BIRTHDAY :
Saturday January 19, 2013, 7:30 PM at Artcite!
An Invitational Group show featuring works by Artcite alumni:
Jennifer Angus (Madison, WI)
IAIN BAXTER& (Windsor, ON)
Sylvie Belanger (Buffalo, NY / Toronto, ON)
Zoe Beloff (NYC, NY)
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller (Berlin, DE & Grindrod, BC)
Carole Conde & Karl Beveridge (Toronto, ON)
Michele Tarailo (Windsor, ON)
Scott Hocking (Detroit, MI)
Spring Hurlbut (Toronto, ON)
Barrie Jones (Vancouver, BC)
Istvan Kantor AKA Monty Cantsin (Toronto, ON)
Nestor Kruger (Toronto, ON)
Lisa Neighbour (Toronto, ON)
John Scott (Toronto, ON)
Rhonda Weppler (San Francisco, CA / Toronto, ON) & Trevor Mahovsky (Vancouver, BC / Toronto, ON)
Artcite Inc., Windsor’s non-profit, Artist-Run Centre for the Contemporary Arts, celebrates its 30th year in the community with a world-class roster of Artcite alumni, featuring recent works from award-winning artists from Canada, the United States and Europe.
Artcite pioneered the showing of cutting-edge performance, video, installation and public art in our region, and through our member-juried selection process, has led the way in bringing the newest and best of contemporary art to local and national attention. Our anniversary group shows have been split into 2 extra big, extra long-running exhibitions. Part 1, now in the gallery highlights the works of some of our favorite alumni through the years of our programming. In September, we present pt. 2 of the 30×30 project with new works by 15 emerging artists, nominated by the artists showing in 30×30 pt.1, and our board and programming committee.
Jennifer Angus, professor in the Design Studies department at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. BFA – Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. MFA – School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Angus has exhibited her work in centers internationally, including: Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan and Spain. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council and Wisconsin Arts Board grants. Her exhibition “A Terrible Beauty” at the Textile Museum of Canada was selected as “Exhibition of the Year” by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries in 2006. More at jenniferangus.com/
Ian Baxter& is recognized as Canada’s pioneering conceptual artist. For over forty years, Baxter& has continually produced works that question the role of art as commodity and as a medium for cultural commentary. Among his many innovations, Baxter& was the first artist to adopt a corporate persona: in 1966, Baxter& was co-president of the conceptual project and legally incorporated business N.E. Thing Company. NETCO’s output ranged from conceptual, satirical, vacuum-formed “still lives” to post-modern appropriations of famous artworks. His recent work includes neon signs, ‘animal preserves’, a grocery cart of ‘GMO’s’ (genetically modified organisms) and installations using obsolete technology. He has received numerous awards, including a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2004. Baxter& was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2003. (see more)
The Canada Council Molson Prize committee stated in 2005 that his “highly regarded conceptual installations and projects, as well as his photography, have earned him the label of ‘the Marshall McLuhan of the visual arts.” Baxter& is Professor Emeritus at the School of Visual Arts University of Windsor and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
More at wiki and website
Sylvie Belanger is an interdisciplinary artist, using sound, video and photography in her multi-media sculptures and installations. BFA – Concordia University, Baccalauréat in Philosophy of Religion from Université de Montréal. MFA – York University. Associate Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo. Before joining SUNY Buffalo, Bélanger taught at The University of Windsor, San Francisco Art Institute, University of Toronto/Sheridan College and Concordia University. Bélanger was the recipient of the Stauffer Prize (awarded by the Canada Council) as well as numerous professional grants from The Nuala Dresher Fellowship, the Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Ministry of Culture and Tourism and External Affairs, Canada. Bélanger exhibits worldwide. More here
Zoe Beloff’s work has been featured in international exhibitions and screenings; venues include the Whitney Museum of American Art, Site Santa Fe, the M HKA museum in Antwerp, and the Pompidou Center in Paris. She has been working with the Christine Burgin Gallery on a number of artist projects that include books and prints. Beloff works with a wide range of media, including film, projection, performance, installation and drawing. She considers herself a medium; an interface between the living and the dead, the real and the imaginary. Each project aims to connect the present to past so that it might illuminate the future in new ways. She has been awarded fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Radcliffe Institute at Harvard and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a Professor in the Departments of Media Studies and Art at Queens College CUNY. She is currently exploring utopian ideas of social progress. Her most recent project is The Days of the Commune. More here
In the spring of 2012, I brought together a group of actors, activists and artists to perform “The Days of the Commune”, a play by Bertold Brecht, in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. The Paris Commune of 1871 was the first great Occupation in modern history. Rather than stage the play in a theater, we performed it scene by scene in public spaces around New York City. The installation is an environment that includes a film documenting the performances, props, costumes, posters and drawings.— Zoe Beloff
Janet Cardiff and Bures Miller represented Canada the 49th Venice Biennale with Paradise Institute (2001), a 16-seat movie theatre where viewers watched a film, becoming entangled as witnesses to a possible crime played out in the real world audience and on the screen. The artists won La Biennale di Venezia Special Award at Venice, presented to Canadian artists for the first time and the Benesse Prize, recognizing artists who break new artistic ground with an experimental and pioneering spirit. Cardiff and Bures Miller have had exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford (2008), the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (2008) Vancouver Art Gallery (2005), Luhring Augustine, New York (2004), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2003), Art Gallery of Ontario (2002), National Gallery of Canada (2002) and Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario (2000).
More at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Cardiff
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bures_Miller
http://cardiffmiller.com/
For more than 30 years, the Toronto art duo Carol Conde and Karl Beveridge have immersed themselves in the everyday issues and conditions of organized labour and community movements across the country. From health care to free trade to anti-globalization protests, each project is rooted in long-term research and active collaboration with individuals at the ground level. The resulting photomontages are condensed narratives built on these real-life experiences. It’s also important to note that the works are carefully constructed with the language of mass communication in mind. As Condé and Beveridge write, “it is not only important to articulate the concerns and experience of working and community life … [the work] should also be able to stand up to the sophistication of corporate culture and take into account the complexities of cultural representation.” That’s a key consideration, and by adapting the visual strategies of marketing and advertising to their work, Condé and Beveridge deliver an engaged social message with undeniably deft precision. (Queen’s University, Kingston ON)
Multiple Exposures depicts the same location photographed over a 600-year period. Starting with a pre-colonial old growth forest, the eight images portray the fur trade (the near extinction of the beaver), an early sawmill (the clearing of forests), a19th century textile mill (the use of fossil fuels, in this case coal), a 1960s chemical plant (modern industrial pollution), a closed plant in the 1980s (the shift of industrial production from the minority to the majority world thus globalizing environmental impacts as well as the pollution resulting from increased transportation), a 21st century mall (consumer waste and the economy of debt) and finally an office tower (financialization and global warming).
Michelle Goulette Tarailo, BFA; University of Windsor, MFA Cranbrook Art Academy, Michigan, PHD; Art Education from Wayne State University, MI. Acting Director, School of Visual Arts, University of Windsor. From 2004 to 2008, Associate Dean, Associate Professor, Art Education, University of Windsor; faculty member since 1990; Extension Curator from 1982 to 1985 and then Education Curator of the Art Gallery of Windsor, from 1985 to 1989. Michele Goulette Tarailo’s recent works feature photographic manipulations that represent nature in a dream-like, painterly manner.
More at micheletarailo.com and here
Born in Detroit in 1975, Scott Hocking has been surveying the postindustrial landscape of Detroit for more than a decade. Hocking’s installation in the Packard Plant, Garden of the Gods (2009-2011), is among his most remarked-upon works, and it is arguably one of the most significant. Situated in a section of an upper floor where the roof has collapsed, the piece uses columns still standing amidst the rubble as pedestals upon which are perched old TV consoles retrieved from elsewhere in the building. See at website
More at scotthocking.com and website
Spring Hurlbut was born in Toronto and continues to live and work there. She attended the Ontario College of Art from 1970 to 1973 and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1973-74. Her works have been exhibited internationally in group shows and in site-specific installations in non-conventional spaces like warehouses and commercial buildings. Since 1995 Hurlbut has extended her inquiries toward other sorts of cultural symbolism. Her indoor and outdoor installations using beds (white iron bedsteads, often in large quantity) evoke cultural practices surrounding sleep and death. Spring Hurlbut has an extensive history of exhibitions in Canada, the United States and France. She has also exhibited in Germany and Brazil. See website and more here
Barrie Jones’s photographs for the show focus on the nature of relationships between clients and employees. Throughout his practice Jones has complicated common assumptions about the identity and role of the artist-photographer by insisting that his portraits are not authored constructions but the results of negotiations with his subjects. (website) More at http://www.barriejones.ca/ BFA; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, MFA; York University, Toronto, Photography Instructor. Dept of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Previously taught photography at the School of Visual Arts, University of Windsor.
Istvan Kantor AKA Monty Cantsin is a Hungarian born Canadian performance and video artist, industrial music and electropop singer, and founder of Neoism.
Kantor emigrated via Paris to Montreal and, in 1978 and organized a Mail Art show “The Brain in the Mail” and gathered a group of people, many of them teenagers or in their early 20s, under the moniker of Neoism. Soon afterwards, Neoism expanded into an international subcultural network that collectively used the Monty Cantsin identity. Recent work involves noise installations and performances with electrically modified file cabinets. He also founded the “Machine Sex Action Group” which realizes theatrical cyber-futuristic body performances in an S/M style. The human body in its relation to machines, explored both in its apocalyptic and subversive potentials remains a major theme of his work. His more controversial works involve vandalism and gore, painting large X’s in his own blood on the walls of modern art museums, and in doing so he has been banned from many of the world’s art galleries, a status he holds with pride. In 2004, he threw a vial of his own blood on a wall beside a sculpture of Michael Jackson by Paul McCarthy in the Hamburger, See here“NO MORE DEAD BORING MUSEUM ART” is an extended Neoist “plunder narrative” commenting on Istvan Kantor’s (AKA Monty Cantsin) oppositionist art philosophy and anti-institutional approach to art production. Percussion by Trevor Tureski; audio mix by M C Maguire. Still photos by Edward Gajdel. Produced by IMPLANT Media for Videodrome, Toronto.
King of Disaster is part of a work-in-progress song- cycle “Songs of the AntiHero—The Lives and Crimes of Istvan Kantor”. Kantor produced this video during a residency in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, shortly after the volcanic eruption of Merapi mountain that destroyed most of the natural surroundings and living environments. Many people died, and thousands had to be relocated in refugee camps. Kantor’s performance as the eternal fugitive waving a red prayer-flag signaling disaster and danger is accompanied with a song that sums up the tragedy and his own artistic credo. Additional video footage was captured in Kantor’s kitchen, in Toronto. Music composition and musical arrangements by Kantor and Trevor Tureski
Nestor Kruger is a Toronto-based artist who has exhibited painting, installations, and videos, in museums and galleries both nationally and internationally. His work was recently included in a group exhibition at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Toronto). He has had solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Present Tense (Art Gallery of Ontario), and at Optica (Montreal). He has participated in group exhibitions at IASPIS (Stockholm), the Frankfurter Kunstverein, and MuHKA (Antwerp). He teaches Drawing and ‘Media Convergence’ at the University of Guelph. (see here and website)
Lisa Neighbour lives and works in Toronto. Her interests range from printmaking and mixed-media works to installation, sculpture, electricity, knots, and water dowsing. Neighbour actively exhibits with Persona Volare, a collective of Toronto-based installation and media artists. Recent exhibitions include the following: Dalgas Underground (1996) Copenhagen, Denmark; Rococo Tattoo (1997) The Power Plant in Toronto; Illuminations (2001) Saidye Bronfman Centre des Arts, Montreal; Home Show (2002) Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg; Canadian Club (2005) Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris; D-Lux (2006) Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto; hic (2006), Installations and Interventions at Hart House, Toronto; Night School, Hart House Nuit Blanche (2007), Toronto; Love/Hate (2007), Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; I’m just going home like a shooting star (2008), Katherine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto. (see here and lisaneighbour.com)
Born in Windsor, John Scott studied at the University of Toronto and the Ontario College of Art, where he now devotes much of his time to teaching. He was awarded the Governor General’s Award for the Visual Arts in 2000. John Scott views himself as a political activist and blue-collar artist. His work combines counterculture aesthetics of the late 1970s and the 1980s with a sociological ideology that is wary of the consequences and human cost of a capitalist ethos and economy. Through drawings, installations and transformed objects, Scott presents an apocalyptic vision of a world ravaged by war and threatened by destruction. (see here )
Rhonda Weppler (born in Winnipeg) and Trevor Mahovsky (born in Calgary) are San Francisco- and Vancouver-based artists who have worked collaboratively since 2004. Both artists have MFA degrees from the University of British Columbia, where they met in 1996. Exhibits include: National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Vancouver Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), LABoral (Gijon), Dos de Mayo (Madrid), Power Plant (Toronto), Musee d’art Contemporain (Montreal), Tokyo Wonder Site, loop-raum (Berlin), Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax), Open Space (Victoria), Art Gallery of Windsor, Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina), Mount Saint Vincent University Gallery (Halifax), Cambridge Galleries, Kelowna Art Gallery, Wells College (Aurora, NY), Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge), Darling Foundry (Montreal). Weppler’s work has also been exhibited at the Palazzo delle Papesse (Siena) and COCA (Seattle). Mahovsky’s work has been shown at the Queens Museum of Art (New York), and he has written for catalogues and journals such as Artforum and Canadian Art.
More at http://www.rweppler.com/rwtm/
