IGNITION

TETSUOMI ANZAI, ADELE CHONG, GEOFFREY JONES, TRICIA MIDDLETON, ADRIENNE SPIER AND CHIH CHIEN WANG

January 14 to February 14, 2004
Vernissage: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 from 5:30 pm to 8 pm

From January 14 to February 14, 2004 the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery presents IGNITION. In the fall of 2003 IGNITION was created to provide advanced Masters students with the opportunity to participate in an exhibition organized by professional curators and presented by the University’s Art Gallery.  It was felt that such a context for the presentation of their work was lacking at Concordia and that we, at the Gallery, were in a position to do something about it. IGNITION will become an annual event juried by professional curators.

The first edition of IGNITION features projects created for the Gallery by six artists: TETSUOMI ANZAI, ADELE CHONG, GEOFFREY JONES, TRICIA MIDDLETON, ADRIENNE SPIER AND CHIH CHIEN WANG. Their work reflects diverse concerns such as the relationship between private and public spheres, interior and external experience and notions of place and dislocation. The projects also examine the construction of meaning and the processes and cultural frameworks involved in the making of art. IGNITION brings together a broad range of media (video, photography, installation, internet, sculpture, painting and drawing), and demonstrates the viability and relevance of a very wide range of approaches to art making.

As a university art gallery it is important that we participate in the support and promotion of a rising generation of visual artists especially when many of them are graduates of the University’s Studio Arts program. We also believe it is necessary to provide an external critical framework in the selection of the projects.

This year the curators François Dion, Director of Artexte and Michèle Thériault, Director of the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, selected the projects.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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