Charles Gagnon: Observations
February 1 to March 11, 2001


The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery of Concordia University was pleased to present the exhibition Charles Gagnon: Observations from February 1 to March 11, 2001.

A leading Canadian artist, Charles Gagnon's career is distinguished by numerous international and national solo and group exhibitions and his works are represented in major public and private collections. This exhibition assembled eighty black and white photographs produced by Gagnon over the past thirty years. The selection of works served to demonstrate the artist's ongoing investigations into the photographic medium and reveals the underlying philosophical tenets that have guided his practice. Portraying both the natural and urban landscape, these small scale, yet powerfully evocative images, raised meaningful questions regarding the intangible nature of lived experience and allude to the artist's ongoing commitment to the exploration of the metaphysical dimension of human existence.


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Sans titre -Vieux-Montrèal, 1990
gelatin silver print 27.8 x 35.3 cm

The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery of Concordia University was pleased to present Trace an installation by Laura Vickerson from February 1 - March 11, 2001. Over the past years Calgary-based artist Laura Vickerson has been exploring notions of ephemerality through objects and processes which implicate the viewer through their incorporation of the quotidian. In the installation Vickerson veiled the gallery in layers of translucent curtains, creating a gently enfolding space which seemed to breathe and sigh when stirred by small air currents and the viewer's movements. Images which capture different intensities of light and shadow were projected onto this softly billowing surface, revolving around the space in slow dissolve. The act of witnessing these images in a devised space causes a heightened awareness of temporality, the "tempus fugit," and the beauty of the passing moment.
The exhibition was curated by Lynn Beavis
and was accompanied by a bilingual brochure.


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