Assorted Flavours
Brock University Department of Visual Arts Student Juried Exhibition

March 27 - April 11, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, March 26, 2010, 7 - 9 pm

Said the Attic
Brock University Department of Visual Arts Honours Exhibition
April 17 - May 2, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, April 16, 2010, 7 - 9 pm
Artists Talk: Friday, April 23, 2010, 1 pm

Featuring the work of Michael Dirisio, Holly Gabel, Natalie Hunter, Alicia Kuntze, Maeve McCambridge, Elyse Pelletier, Kaitlin Robertson, Gabrielle Tremblay, Leanne Unruh, Tracy Van Oosten.

Graeme Patterson
Grudge Match

May 15 - September 5, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 7 - 9 pm
Related Programming: The Main Event, Thursday, May 6, 2010, 7 pm

Executed in Graeme Patterson's signature style, Grudge Match imagines a freestyle wrestling match between the artist and his long-lost childhood friend, Yuki. Best friends at the age of 5, Patterson lost touch with Yuki once his friend returned to Japan four years later. Through sculptural installation and stop-motion video, puppets of Patterson and Yuki as teenagers engage in a fictional match in a high school gymnasium.  A conflation of personal experience and emotional memory, the installation recreates and plays with Patterson's memories of his first best friend, exploring boyhood rivalry and the bonds of friendship. 

Image: Graeme Patterson, Grudge Match (in progress), 2009 - 2010.

Karilee Fuglem

May 28 - August 22, 2010
Opening Reception & Artist's Talk: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 7 - 9 pm

Working with simple materials such as nylon monofilament and clear plastic, Montreal-based artist, Karilee Fuglem explores the intangible and the barely visible, giving form to that which is often overlooked. The weightlessness and organic nature of her work belies the labour-intensive process of hand-weaving, crocheting, and looping kilometer upon kilometer of thread into large-scale installations that alter the viewer's perception of space and movement through the gallery. In a site-specific exhibition for the Hansen Gallery, Fuglem responds to Rodman Hall and the surrounding area, referencing the natural world and exploring the history of the mansion and its inhabitants.

Image: Karilee Fuglem, Learning to Live on the Ground, 2008, nylon monofilament. Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay. Courtesy of Pierre-Francois Ouellette art contemporain.