Next Show goes up April 9
E-newsletter from The Art Collective for March 30:
Our next session is Friday March 31, 10 to 130 in VA 315. We’ll be working with our new materials, heavier and larger watercolour paper, a set of good quality pencil crayons and sets of brush markers. We’re also curating our latest work to see what we should include in our next show, which goes up April 9, including individual work. Fresh bagels and grape juice will be served.
The show goes up April 9 in the Visual Arts Building, on the ground floor, at the corner of Rene-Lévesque Blvd. and Crescent St. in downtown Montreal. The opening will be Tuesday April 11. As it’s the week before Easter, we will take down the show Thursday evening April 13 as the university is closed on Friday and many people will be away on Saturday.
If you wish to have individual work in the show, it must be brought on Sunday April 9 at noon to the Visual Arts building lobby and it must be picked up Thursday evening. Individual work to be included in the show must have a maximum size of three feet by three feet. Artists who have participated in the collective’s activities since January are invited to put work in this show. As we will put up labels with all work, we need to know by the end of this week if you plan to have work in the show, along with what the label information should say (materials, title, name, date).
The title of the show will include the word Strings, or perhaps just that word; this is to be finalized at Friday’s session. At our session last week, we discussed how to present the work and the theme of the show.
At the curating session with Montreal artist Holly King on Feb. 10, about 30 pieces were selected and arranged in “strands.” This led to the idea of having the work arranged in a formation that reflects the identity of the collective, or the collective’s DNA, which of course, can be seen as its individual members. Rather than dividing the exhibition space into individual and collaborative work, an arrangement pattern was conceived that involves the original strands of collaborative work with individual work placed in a regular pattern created by the placement of the collaborative work.
Holly King’s new show, Twisted Roots, opens Sunday at Université de Sherbrooke’s Galerie d’Art, and continues until June 4. Holly, whose work is featured in several museum collections, has curated work for the collective's next show.
In the News section of the site are excerpts from stories on a David Hockney retrospective, the Munch show at MOMA in New York and the legal aspects of street photography.
Here’s a story by collective member Robert Winters about Concordia artists using the empty fourth floor of the Visual Arts building:
Robert Winters
Co-ordinator of The Art Collective
robertwinters@videotron.ca