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July 19, 2013
Last year you picked “Shift” as your favorite title and theme for Station Gallery’s members’ show. This highly-anticipated annual event is scheduled from November 30th, 2013 through to January 5, 2014. This year’s theme and title is again up to you. Choose your fave from the four listed below and stay tuned for the results on my next blog post.
Let the voting begin…
June 21, 2013
I’ve caught up on the sleepless night a couple of years ago when the idea first occurred to me. I was inspired and exhilarated by the idea of an exhibition that could be determined by the viewing audience. The Wiki Show was born.
A wiki is a web site that encourages anyone to contribute and change content. An excellent example is Wikipedia, a popular on-line encyclopedia that grows and expands every day. Wikis encourage the free exchange of ideas, collaboration, user and visitor involvement.
The Wiki Show brings together twenty artists from across Canada who have submitted exhibition proposals to Station Gallery. They are:
John Abrams
Danny Custodio
Jennifer Dorner
Corinne Duchesne
Susan Farquhar
Erin Finley
Karen Grenier
Sadko Hadzihasanovic
Peter Haller
Timothy Laurin
Laura Moore
Clint Neufeld
Nathalie Quagliotto
Peter Sibbald
Dwight Siegner
Rosemary Sloot
Barry Smylie
Ilona Staples
Nicola Tibbetts
Mike Yuhasz
Each artist brings one or more of their latest and best pieces into the Wiki mix. Visitors are invited to actively engage with works and ideas.
This materially rich show surveys a vast array of media and conceptual approaches to contemporary practice. Some themes become apparent in the Show. They include imaginary spaces, the beauty of ordinary objects and the wonderment of everyday life, travel, proximities, the near and the far, exchange and the generous spirit of sharing. As you wander through the Show, you’ll find other themes and similarities among the twenty artists. It’s a real amazing conversation…
As a group exhibition, this one’s a little on the experimental side. We’re asking all SG visitors to have a say in determining the future programming at the gallery. Whose art would you like to see more of? Which of the twenty artists would you like to see back at the gallery?
Come into the gallery and cast a ballot for your favorite artist in this group exhibition. At the end of the show (August 17), the artist with the most votes will be invited back to SG for a solo exhibition next year. The Wiki finalist will be announced at our next opening on August 24.
The Wiki show opens tomorrow afternoon–let the voting begin!
April 26, 2013
For the sixth year in a row, Durham College (DC) art and design students showed their year’s output at Station Gallery (SG). Every spring, I personally look forward to this dynamic, engaging exhibition. Nothing else looks like it. A huge range of material and conceptual investigations come together under the gallery roof, on the gallery walls. Along with one of this year’s jurors, Elizabeth Sweeney (Robert McLaughlin Gallery), Professor Sean McQuay presented over 30 awards to his students involved in the annual juried exhibition.
This year was bigger and better than ever. For the first time, all gallery spaces are devoted exclusively to Durham College projects. We may have even broken a gallery record for number of works in the house: well over 200 projects on display!
And of course there was the ceremonial “exchanging of the ties”. This ancient and arcane ritual has a deep history dating back to 2008. Every year since, Prof. McQuay and I have exchanged skinny, vintage neckties — a symbolic gesture representing the vital ties between the college and the gallery (thanks for the pic, Steven!). The show continues through to this Sunday…
2013 Tie Exchange
March 22, 2013
The hottest ticket in town has just sold out. This year’s gallery fundraiser is going to be an outstanding event with well-over 100 quality artworks to choose from for lucky ticket-holders. Next week we’ll start hanging and setting up the in-gallery preview. In the meantime, check out the on-line preview here. Now imagine: it’s April 11th. The big night. Drawing for Art emcee and CKDO radio personality, Terry Johnson draws your ticket from the drum. You’ve got first choice! Whose artwork would you choose?
Juried exhibition theme, as voted by you.
Hot off the press (err… drawing board) here’s the first glance at the 20th anniversary Annual Members’ Exhibition theme for 2012.
As mentioned in my recent post Shift Happens, the winning theme ‘Shift’ was top choice for Station Gallery’s December exhibition. Thank you to all that voted.
For you, my faithful blog readers (and those that casually drop in, now and then) here’s the scoop for this year’s show:
Submissions Accepted @ SG
September 10 – November 10, 2012
Opening Reception & Awards
December 8, 2012 at 1pm
Exhibition
December 8 – January 6, 2013
Entry
Valid SG Membership
Categories
Children (Aged 4 – 12)
Youth (13 – 17)
Adult (18+)
and finally, the Irwin Family Award for ‘Best in Show’
Complete details coming soon…
July 13, 2012
It’s Friday the thirteenth, and I’ve the good fortune of announcing “Shift” as the title and theme of this year’s annual members’ exhibition at Station Gallery. Out of the gate, “Shift” was favored to win on an on-line poll posted a couple weeks ago, taking a majority of fifty + percent of votes at all times. Thanks to everyone who voted and followed the results.
And it’s a good one. “Shift” is both a noun and a verb. Generally it means to change position. It can evoke many things: graveyard shift, gear shift, shape-shifting, paradigm shift, the shift key on a keyboard…
I anticipate that we’ll have loads of creative interpretations of this versatile and fun theme. Stay tuned to the SG website later this summer for details on the 20th annual members’ show…
Short & Sweet
June 29, 2012
Last year you picked Rock, Paper, Scissors as your favorite title and theme for Station Gallery’s members’ show. This highly-anticipated annual event is scheduled from December 8th, 2012 through to January 6, 2013. This year’s theme and title is again up to you. Choose your fave from the four listed below and stay tuned for the results on my next blog post…
May 22, 2012
Lately, I’ve enjoyed being immersed in the our collection storage and reviewing the gallery’s permanent collection along with gallery patrons and partners. This is in preparation for our upcoming Patrons’ Picks exhibition which opens on Saturday, June 2. The process has proven to be exhilarating and informative for both myself and key stakeholders making their selections. It’s trilling to make discoveries of pieces that have quietly hung on the backs of the storage racks.
As you may know, I enjoy looking for (and sometimes finding) patterns and themes. I’ve started noticing many similarities in the prints preserved in the permanent collection. For instance, there are a lion’s share of table-tops and still-lives represented. There’s a real sensuous, quirky humour that’s noticeable in the collection. Many prints invoke the levity and funky atmosphere of the late seventies and early eighties. Who knows, maybe there’s a themed show in the making. In the meantime, many of the works will see a new life until July 15 in the context of the Patrons’ Picks show. Release the collection!
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