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Re-Collection - Andy Sims, Lee-Ann Taras, Bruce KauffmanJuly 29th, 2008
An exhibit that touches on the empowerment and disintegration of memory by local artists, Bruce Kauffman, Andrew Sims, and Lee-Ann Taras
This is an exhibit about time passing, loss, starting again, collecting memories, trying to forget, celebrating. The exhibit itself is challenging in many ways since it empowers for the artists some aspects of their lives that are difficult to remember. It reflects the ease of forgetting, the difficulty that comes with forgetting, as well as the celebration of memory and the survival tools that memory can give to us.
History is a collection of memories. Although this exhibit reflects history on a microscopic scale reflecting very personal impressions of memory and human habit with how we deal with memory, the exhibit may cause us to ask basic questions aobut what we remember and what we have forgotten?
This exhibit speaks loudly aobut responsible remembering even when it can be difficult. These artists have taken the more difficult path of representing what is actually real.They do this by using old images, words and finding new ways to exhbit and reflect — re-collect. - Troy Leaman & Rebecca Soudant
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Lee-Ann Taras grew up in Prince Edward County and has made Kingston, Ontario home for twenty years. She obtained a degree in psychology before later studying drawing, painting and sculpture. Taras has followed various career paths in social work and the arts. She has been studying, making, exhibiting and selling art since 1994. Taras is a member of the Kingston Arts Council, Organization of Kingston Women Artists, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre and CARFAC Ontario. She also is the Art Program Coordinator for the Canadian Mental Health Association. Bruce Kauffman moved to Kingston in 2001. He began writing poetry while attending university but became quite passionate about writing in the mid 1990’s. He hosted a weekly poetry series in a college/university setting from 1995 - 1997 and has participated in numerous poetry readings. His work has been included several compilations and anthologies, and his chapbook “Seed” was published in 2005.
Andrew Sims is a Kingston based artist. He attended Queen’s and St. Lawrence College. He has shown at the Verb Gallery and the Kingston Public Library. He has also exhibited his work in a group show in Toronto. Every Stratified Thing on Earth: John Anderson and the ‘Kingston Tapes’ - Darryl BankJuly 29th, 2008
Every Stratified Thing on Earth: John Anderson and the ‘Kingston Tapes’ Darryl Bank On view at the Artel Sept. 11th - Sept. 28th, 2008. Every Stratified Thing on Earth: John Anderson and the ‘Kingston Tapes’ is a long-overdue survey of the mysterious tapes that briefly captured Kingston’s attention in 1985. Over the past 23 years, the divisive, inconclusive history of the tapes’ production all but vanished from the historical record – however, this exhibition constitutes a critical return to the events in question and should ensure that they remain under careful consideration and analysis in the future. The exhibition includes all surviving footage from this period, in addition to numerous archival documents. A comprehensive publication has also been produced to accompany the exhibition and will be available for purchase at the gallery. This exhibition has been organized by staff of the Center for Parapsychological Studies, a branch of the Subscience Institute at Prescott College, Arizona. Darryl Bank is a Toronto-based artist and curator. He is a graduate of the Queen’s University BFA program (2006), and also received a postgraduate diploma in Arts Administration from Humber College (2007). In 2007, he worked as a Curatorial Assistant at the Art Gallery of York University, and recently completed a contract at the Ontario Association of Art Galleries. In early 2009, he will be taking part in Vtape’s “Curatorial Incubator” program, developing a screening of works based on the notion of the paranormal hoax as it informs artists’ video. He intends to continue pursuing curatorial projects on both an institutional and independent basis, and further develop a parallel, complementary artistic practice. UNDERFOOT - An Installation by Jeremy MulderJuly 29th, 2008
14th – 31st August 2008 Underfoot, a large-scale sculptural installation created by artist Jeremy — Ever since he was a young child spending afternoons in his grandfather’s Call for Proposals - Modern Fuel Artist ResidencyJuly 29th, 2008
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre is seeking participants for Rotterdam-based artist Yvette Poorter’s mobile residency program KNOCK ON WOODS. Knock on Woods International Residency and Dwelling for Intervals is a constructed space that dedicates itself to offering local and international artists a sense of rootedness and respite from a hectic and bewildering globalism. The residency is a para-site that consists of a rustic tent-cabin and a forest of tree-flags that can be and has been situated almost anywhere. From the 9th to the 13th of September, Knock on Woods will be situated at the Artel in Kingston, Ontario. Artists are invited to do a residency with the para-site for a minimum of four and a maximum of 24 hours. Work produced during the residency will be exhibited in Modern Fuel’s State of Flux Gallery. Proposals are being accepted from now until 29 August 2008 for the Kingston site. Selected residents will be responsible for their own transportation, food and materials. Availability is limited, so ACT NOW. DEADLINE: August 29, 2008. Proposals (including an artist statement, proposal, CV, and 5-10 digital images) can sent to Yvette Poorter c/o Modern Fuel at modernfuel@bellnet.ca or send/bring hardcopy proposals to: Yvette Poorter Artist Yvette Poorter will present a screening/talk at Modern Fuel on Saturday, September 13 at 7pm as a part of the opening reception for the exhibition Forest Station featuring the work of Poorter and installation artist David Ross from 13 September to 18 October 2008 at Modern Fuel. For more information on Knock on Woods, check out the website at: http://thisneckofthewoods.net Or contact: Living at the ARTEL - PRIME ROOMS availableJuly 29th, 2008
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Living at the ARTEL - PRIME ROOMS available APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED until APRIL 20, 2009 The Artel has prime rooms available. artel-tenancy-application-feb-2009.pdf - Please submit via e-mail to the.artel@gmail.com If you live at The Artel you’ll enjoy: Don’t hesitate. artel-tenancy-application-feb-2009.pdf - Please submit via e-mail to the.artel@gmail.com Downtown: After Then and Before LaterJuly 19th, 2008
July 24 - August 18, 2008 The Artel presents, Downtown: After Then and Before Later a panoramic photographic exhibition of the changing face of Kingston’s downtown core by artist Brent Pike-Nurse. There aren’t many towns left in Ontario that have intact historic and economically viable downtowns; Kingston is one of those cities. Streets ebb and flow with the times creating an almost living entity. This exhibit captures the urban landscape as a living and breathing element of Kingston; freezing it photographically and installing it as a panoramic vista and creating a sensorial experience. Local artist Brent Pike-Nurse has spent the last several years exploring the changing face of downtown Kingston. His photographs were shot in both day and night and in all seasons to create a blend of the downtown core that so many see with the nighttime streets reserved for a select few. BANALYZE THISJune 26th, 2008
July 3 - July 20, 2008 The Artel presents Banalyze This, a two-project exhibition of drawing installation. Harkening back that object of desire, the artists here teeter playfully between capital-W Want as departure point, and as a reference point-of-no-return. Happily toying with our innate stumbling contradictions, this exhibit makes roommates of artists Kyle Bishop (based in Waterloo) and the Gestalt Drawing Guild collective (based in Kingston), and looks for meaning and pathos in human interdependence and need.      Former Bishop is joined by the Gestalt collective, artists Loretta Walz and Andrea Hunter with their project “Cage Dweller”: an installation of doodles made while at work, hung in strips creating a trembling and fragile enclosure. With this project, inspired by the powers of perception - the way the mind perceives wholes out of incomplete elements, the aptly named Gestalt collective explores the spaces carved out amidst or despite our banal existence; the spaces where ideas, dreams, and creative impulses reside.
OPEN HOURS Living at the ARTEL - TWO PRIME ROOMS availableJune 18th, 2008
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Living at the ARTEL - TWO PRIME ROOMS available The Artel has two prime rooms available for Sept 1st ($308 to $420 per month plus utilities). Application deadline ongoing: starting Sunday, July 27, to August 20th. Tenant Application Form - Please submit via e-mail to the.artel@gmail.com If you live at The Artel you’ll enjoy: Don’t hesitate. Open House: Saturday, July 26th, 2008 11am - 4pm Tenant Application Form - Please submit via e-mail to the.artel@gmail.com |
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