Green:Undergraduate
Student Exhibition
March
11 - April 5, 2003.
Concordia
University's annual Undergraduate Student Exhibition will
be held at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery from March
11 - April 5, 2003. A reception will be held Tuesday, March
11 at 5:30 p.m. This exhibition has been a tradition at Concordia
University for more than twenty years. It affords Faculty
of Fine Arts students the opportunity to present their work
in a professional public gallery and introduces the work of
Concordia's emerging contemporary artists to the general public.
The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery is located at 1400,
boul. de Maisonneuve Ouest, inside the J.W. McConnell Library
Building of Concordia University.
The exhibition will include artworks in a variety of media,
including photography, sculpture, drawing, video, and installation.
The works assembled demonstrate a broad spectrum of aesthetic
and technical concerns, and reveal current interests in contemporary
art.
The exhibition is organized by the VAV Gallery and juried
by an undergraduate student committee who is also responsible
for the design and printing of the invitations and the preparation
of biographical materials that accompany the show. Works by
the following artists will be presented: Haig Aivazian, Kiki
Athanassiadis, Lorna Bauer, Julie Boivin, Stéphanie
Chabot, Cal Crawford, Michael Doerksen, Michael Farnan, Andrew
Duncan Finalyson, Nicolas Grenier, Catto Houghton, Zoë
Kreye, Vincent Lafrance, Tuulia Law, John Londono, Hoang Nguyen,
Mark Andre Pennock, e. Dawit L. Petros, Marie-Claude Plasse,
Alana Riley, Ned Schwartz, Alexandre Séguin Dores,
Beth Stuart, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak.
The exhibition is presented with the assistance of the Concordia
Council on Student Life and the Dean's Office, Faculty of
Fine Arts.
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 11:00 - 19:00
Saturday 13:00 - 17:00
free admission - wheelchair accessible
For more information about the Ellen Art Gallery consult the
website at www.ellengallery.com or call (514) 848-4750
Education & Public Programming
March 11th - April 5th, 2003
Green
Annual Undergraduate Student Show
Vernissage - Tuesday, March 11th, 5:30 pm
Emerging Artists Matinée - Thursday, March 20th, 3:00
- 5:00 pm
Montréal CEGEP students are invited to the Ellen Art
Gallery to view the exhibition and meet the Concordia student
artists who produced the work in this year's Annual Undergraduate
Show. If you intend to bring a group, please let us know by
contacting Piera Palucci at 848-4047or by email at ppalucci@alcor.concordia.ca.
Business for Artists Workshop - Saturday, March 29th, 1:00
- 3:00 pm
Animated by Lynn Beavis, this workshop is designed for artists
who are interested in presenting their work to galleries.
The workshop will deal with identifying prospective galleries,
and will offer a hands-on portfolio preparation component.
Participants are encouraged to bring visual documentation
of their work, such as slides, their CVs and artists statements
etc. to the workshop. Maximum of 12 participants. To reserve,
contact Piera Palucci at 848-4047, or by email at ppalucci@alcor.concordia.ca
before March 14th, 2003.
Closing Tea Party Tour - Friday, April 4th, tour from
5:15 - 6:00 pm
Join us after class, or after work for a walk-about tour of
Green. Tea will be served following the tour.
Guided Tours - available from March 17th to April 5th
Guided tours of the Undergraduate Show will introduce visitors
to the works of 23 emerging artists as well as to overall
artistic concerns or thematic issues present in the show.
This guided tour will also incorporate several interactive
dialogue-based "gallery games" or strategies which
allow the visitor to experiment with different ways of approaching
and experiencing art. Reservations for a group tour can be
made by contacting Piera Palucci at 848-4047 or by email at
ppalucci@alcor.concordia.ca.
Walk-In Tours - Tuesdays & Thursdays from March 18th -
April 3rd, 12:00 - 2:00 pm.
As part of its educational programming the Leonard & Bina
Ellen Art Gallery offers the public an ongoing program of
free bilingual walk-in tours of current exhibitions.
Gallery hours: Monday to Friday 11 am - 7 pm, Saturday 1 pm
- 5 pm
All events and activities are free of charge.
