Doin’ the Louvre”: Artcite’s 30th annual Christmas FUN(d)raising exhibition and sale.

Quebec artist J.L.Torres takes over the gallery and builds one of his installations using found wood, building materials and the cast-offs of everyday life, to create a powerful metaphor for displacement and identity in the 21st century.

Artcite Inc., Windsor’s only non-profit, artist-run centre for the Contemporary Arts, presents its 4th annual VISUAL FRINGE in partnership with the 2011 Windsor International Fringe Festival featuring the works of over 80 Windsor-Essex, Detroit area and U.S. artists in various downtown galleries businesses and storefronts from July 15 – 30, 2011.

Roxanne Jackson’s sculptural installations explore the duality of human nature through the metamorphosis of humans and animals.

The MayWorks Windsor 2011 Festival opens on April 29th with Abilene Paradox, a multi-room environment by Vancouver, BC / New York City based First-Nations artist collective RTST (Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan).

60 artists hung their shelf-creations on Artcite’s walls, working the idea and the materiality of “the shelf” in a show that pushed the boundaries of the creative process – some went so far as to make a couple of shelves!

Jodi Boatman re-creates a photographic narrative of the life of her grandmother, by standing in for her; an abandoned war bride who came to the states to find the American GI husband who had abandoned her and their child.

This exhibition hopes to help “refresh” Fluxus by providing a new set of visual symbols; and a new set of emotions/attitudes, to be associated with Fluxus – and help liberate/expand new Fluxus work beyond the original set of images that have come to be associated with Fluxus and that now tend to define and hold Fluxus in place.