The Thunder Bay Art Gallery

Mood Valleys

Walter Scott
Curated by Nadia Kurd

November 4 - March 4, 2012

Walter Scott, Adordarho Emerges, 2010, acrylic screenprint on paper, 22" x 28"

Walter Scott is an inter-disciplinary Mohawk artist based in Montreal Quebec. Informed by North American Indigenous metaphysics, he attempts to explore the chasm between nationalist and religious ethics, and individual spiritual identity. Recent exhibitions include the Museum for Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2010, and The Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, Quebec, as part of the international new-media event Bring Your Own Beamer. Mood Valleys at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery will be his first solo exhibition.

To read Nadia's complete essay on Walter Scott click here.

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Patricia Deadman | Permanent Collection Spotlight

December 2, 2011 - March 4, 2012

Foyer

     
Serve Series: Self-serve and Deserve, 1994, Duratran on Plexiglas, 121.9 x 81.3 cm, Thunder Bay Art Gallery Collection, Purchased with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program.

The Thunder Bay Art Gallery houses a growing Permanent Collection comprised of over 1,500 pieces. These Permanent Collection Spotlight exhibitions are intended to increase public access to the works within this collection, and to assist in the expansion of research and knowledge relating to individual pieces and artists.
This season’s instalment of the Permanent Collection Spotlight series features the work of photo-based artist Patricia Deadman. Deadman is an artist and a curator, who is currently based out of Woodstock, Ontario. She received her Fine Art Diploma from Fanshawe College in 1986, her Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Windsor in 1988, and has taken part in creative residencies in Banff, Canada and Paris, France. This body of work, titled Serve Series was made in 1994 and is comprised of five large-scale photographs that together explore the different layers of meaning formed by the pairing of images and words.

To read an essay on Patricia Deadman’s Serve series written by Suzanne Morrissette, Curatorial Resident, please click here.

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Wilderness
Brian Holden

Curated by Nadia Kurd

January 13 - March 4, 2012

Workshop led by Brian Holden
Sunday, January 22, 2012

For details on the workshop click here.

Brian Holden, Pukaskwa driftwood beach, 2009, colour relief block with hand colouring, image 12.7 x 17.8 cm, edition of 20, printed on Canson Edition rag

To read Curator Nadia Kurd's essay on Brian Holden click here.

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Sense of Place
Organized and Circulated by the Windsor Printmaker's Forum

January 13 - February 26, 2012

Join us Friday, January 27 at 7:30 pm and listen to readings from acclaimed authors Nino Ricci and Alistair MacLeod. New: Rebecca Belmore will also be in attendance. For more information click here.

Adam Medley, Secrets of Ventriloquism - Now Revealed, 2006, etching, 15 1//2 x 11 3/4 inches, paper:18 1/2 x 15 inches.

The Windsor Printmaker’s Forum would like to acknowledge the generous support of  the Ontario Arts Council, the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the University of Windsor.

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Imprints: Three Perspectives
Jerry Evans, Art Thompson, and Carl Beam

Curated by Nadia Kurd

January 13 - February 12, 2012

Carl Beam, Two Kinds of Power, c, 1990, print 200/200, ink on paper, 55.8 x 76.2 cm

Imprints: Three Perspectives features the work of three Aboriginal artists that explore and experiment through printmaking. Whether it is in their use of imagery, methods or subject matter, the works by artists Jerry Evans, Art Thompson and Carl Beam challenge not only how we see and understand historical knowledge but also the enduring potency of this knowledge today.