Interactive Bunker/Adrian Norvid's show/David King's work/Khadija C. Baker's work/Holly King's work in MOCCA show
This Friday (Nov. 24), drop by VA 315, 10 to 130, have some fresh bagels and grape juice, and help create the visual framework for our Interactive Bunker project.
We’ll be sketching out on large pieces of stonehenge paper the structure for an imaginary underground bunker where humans and other creatures make their habitat sometime in the future.
Then you can be a curator/co-ordinator of the Bunker project which takes place Thursday afternoon and evening (Nov. 30) and on Friday during the day (Dec. 1), in the Visual Arts building lobby at the corner of Crescent St. and Rene-Levesque Blvd. in downtown Montreal. Interaction with any artists that want to participate is encouraged. This is the first stage of our special project funded by Concordia’s Fine Arts Student Alliance. Please let me know if you would like to be a curator/co-ordinator for a section of paper linking this Bunker project; each section will be documented in terms of participants, and will be presented on our website.
2) Don’t miss Adrian Norvid’s excellent exhibition of drawings, which continues at Joyce Yahouda Gallery, at the Belgo building in downtown Montreal, 372 Ste. Catherine St. W., Suite 516. The show runs until Dec. 17.
You can visit the gallery's website at:
http://www.joyceyahoudagallery.com/
Below, you can read more about Adrian and his work. Adrian, who is giving feedback for the collective this year, is visiting professor of painting and drawing in the Studio Arts program of Concordia University’s Fine Arts Faculty. Adrian came up with the strong Bunker project idea during a brainstorming session about the collective’s special events this year.
3) Take a look at the Photos section of our website to see three new images of work by member David King, a Montreal artist who is in his third year as a member of The Art Collective.
David worked on the distinctive tree mural at the collective’s one-week exhibition at UQAM’s CDEx exhibition; photos of this mural are in the Photos section.
In describing his work, David says: “All my work is derived from numbers and algorithms; it is from these simple begins that complex patterns emerge. Complexity from simplicity. This mimics the basics principles of the operation of life on all levels of existence.”
4) There also is an image from an animated film provided by Montreal artistKhadija C. Baker, who is in her second year as a member of the collective. The animation piece was partly funded by Concordia University’s Fine Arts Student Alliance and was presented at a student film festival at the school.
Khadija, a painter and photographer as well, says that in this piece, titled Totico, which means crazy in Kurdish, “I try to focus on issues surrounding war, as an endless circle “by using dance and fight, which present love and hate. The use of chocolate as an image is related to its role as a traditional sign of love, and “scratching the surface is my way of showing the violence in the action of war to create my animation, which emphasizes the anger of war.”
5) Montreal artist Holly King, who has helped curate two shows by The Art Collective, has work in a new show opening at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto, led by director David Liss, a Concordia graduate. The opening reception is Saturday 2 to 5 p.m. if you are in Toronto on the weekend.
For more information:
http://www.mocca.toronto.on.ca/
MAINSPACE EXHIBITION
The Invisible Landscape revealing our place in the world
November 25, 2006 – January 21, 2007
Public reception: November 25, 2006 2-5 p.m.
Bertram Brooker, Emily Carr, Paterson Ewen, Robert Flack, Betty Goodwin, Lawren S. Harris,
Holly King, Ernest Lawson, Jock Macdonald, Jane Ash Poitras, Roland Poulin, Eric Renner, Gerhard Richter, Jack Shadbolt, Thomas Sivuraq, Bill Viola, Joel-Peter Witkin.
Robert Winters
Co-ordinator of The Art Collective
To read about Adrian Norvid’s show at Jessica Bradley gallery in Toronto, click this link:
This description below is at this web page which is part of a Road Trip project that Adrian was involved in, that also included Will Gorlitz, who has shown at Galerie Rene Blouin in the Belgo Building, Margaret Lawther and Adrian Blackwell:
Adrian Norvid received an MFA from York University in 1986. His recent solo exhibitions include: AKA Gallery in Saskatoon, Galerie B312 in Montreal and AxeNeo7 in Gatineau Quebec. His work was also featured recently in the “Other Worlds” exhibition at Jessica Bradley Art and Projects in Toronto. In 2005 he participated in the Symposium Internationale d’Art de Baie-Saint-Paul. He has upcoming exhibitions at Galerie Joyce Yahouda and the Societe des Arts sur Papier, both in Montreal. He currently teaches at Concordia University. Adrian Norvid works on very large format drawings exploring themes of underachievement, misbehaviour and decrepitude.