Check Out Reporter Mathew Liebenberg's Online Article and Pictures of our Antipods Show!

Below is the Mathew Liebenberg's Prairie Post Online Article that was based on the Antipods opening Reception at the Art Gallery of Swift Current.

http://www.prairiepost.com/news/swift-current/item/8264-art-gallery-hosts-int-collaborative-visual-arts-project.html

Don't forget to click onto the link below to see more pictures that were taken at AGSC's opening reception!

http://www.prairiepost.com/multimedia/gallery/item/8255-opening-reception-for-antipods-exhibition-in-swift-current-july-8-2015.html

Art Gallery of Swift Current Show with USQ and USASK

Along with professor Susan Shantz, professor Beata Batorowicz, three USASK students and the wonderful AGSC  installation experts; we managed to get Antipods: Magical Creatures with Backward Feet, installed within three days...with just one hour to spare before the opening reception on Wednesday!

This was the first time that the USASK students had the opportunity to work with a professional team, to aid and facillitate the installation of both our work and that of USQ.  The AGSC team were very generous as they not only assisted with the more difficult aspects of the install, but also provided some innovative problem solving installation solutions that we will certainly carry forward with us in the future.

The Openning reception was well attended as the AGSC director and curator, Kim Houghtaling provided opening remarks, and asked that Professor Batorowicz and Professor Shantz speak to the collaborative process between both USQ and USASK.  Those USASK students who were present for the opening reception, were also asked to speak to both their work and to the USQ artist that they each  individually were responding to.

Dr. Beata Batorowicz is Here!

It was with great anticipation, that we at the University of Saskatchewan finally had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Beata Batorowicz from the University of South Queensland!  After we all got to know one another a little better over dinner,  the evening was topped off at AKA gallery with Beata Batorowicz's inspirational talk!
On Friday we all welcomed and appreciated her well considered insights, as she met with us to discuss the work that was showcased at both the Gordon Snelgrove Gallery and AKA Gallery.
 It was sad to take down both shows today.  However, on Monday we are off on another adventure to hang all of USQ and USASK 's work in Swift Current, Saskatchewan.  It will be great to see all the work in one venue!

Beata photographing at AKA Gallery

Installation Shots of the USASK and USQ joint exhibition at the Gordon Snelgrove Gallery

Gordon Snelgrove Gallery                                                                                       Photography by Barbara Reimer

Gordon Snelgrove Gallery                                                                                       Photography by Barbara Reimer

Gordon Snelgrove Gallery                                                                                       Photography by Barbara Reimer

Gordon Snelgrove Gallery                                                                                       Photography by Barbara Reimer

It was great to see the show finally come together on Monday! Here are just a few of the wonderful photographs that were taken by Barbara Reimer, at the Gordon Snelgrove Gallery.   Perhaps the next step would be to also include a virtual video tour for our fellow artists from the University of Southern Queensland.

Install at the AKA

So this week is the first week of our second half of this project.  There are 6 of us in this section and we have had the wonderful opportunity to install work at AKA artist run centre in downtown Saskatoon.  I was designate ladder lady - both tall enough and brave enough to instal Di Decaire and Lizbeth Longaluit's work from a much higher ceiling than the Snelgrove.  New experiences: working with media players instead of DVD's, setting lights, and finding out that the grey tape that had seems like such a great solution for camouflaging into the grey ceiling turned out not to be that great after all!  A big thank-you goes out to Tarin and Derrick for helping us and answering a million questions like "Where's the packing tape?"

AKA Gallery    All photographs by Barbara Reimer

Two-faced

Two-faced is a floor sculpture made of two pieces, each with two different sides. The two units are placed in a curve in relation to each other. I used black-and-white with the natural brown color of the bamboo to create contrast. The diamond shapes of the stretched bamboo create negative spaces and create patterns with shadow and light. The two different sides and the created shadows make the viewer walk around it as it presents a different image from each angle.

I enjoy the visual contrast of the piece and also how it relates to the idea of having two faces. This refers to the way people can convey more than one personality. They might look like one thing from the outside but like something else from the inside. This is one of the biggest illusions that everyone has to face nearly everyday.

This piece was created in response to the Australian artist Glen Bowman’s piece, Fragmented Illusions #3.

Unsuspecting Light Bulb Moment

In an atttempt to try and keep shipping costs down for our joint exhibition with USQ; our professor Susan Shantz, asked the class to create a piece that was expandable.  After some rather frustrating attempts at replicating a small paper model that I had previously designed, I decided it was time for lunch.  That was when I noticed a bag of onions in my fridge.  That gave me an idea!