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Behind the scenes at the Art Gallery

trevor.kenney — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:40:46 +0000

Drop by and get a glimpse of all the work that goes on behind the scenes at the U of L Art Gallery as they host an Open House, Oct. 13-16.

"We invite everyone to come and see what we do to care for artworks in the collection. Gallery staff can answer your questions, you can find out about our latest conservation project and try out our new website and research database," says Dr. Josephine Mills, director/curator. "We'll also launch the new publication Snap, Crackle, Pop."

If you've ever wondered why you are not supposed to touch artwork, this is your opportunity to find out.

"We'll have stations set up with several options for looking at works, materials and images of the conservation process. It'll give people a sense of the scope of the assessment and treatment for conservation as well as our general gallery operations," says Mills. "It will also help people understand how the Art Gallery supports Art History/Museum Studies students."

Gallery preparator, Jane Edmundson, looks forward to showing visitors the processes used in the Gallery's conservation project.

"Many works in the collection, such as watercolours, drawings and prints are done on paper," she says. "Our job involves repairing and stabilizing the works using the most up-do-date techniques. These methods often change or evolve over time. For example, we now have a new framing procedure. Many of the works in the U of L collection are very old and we do our best to preserve them by integrating new conservation processes."

The new digital collection database provides students, researchers and the curious with a means to learn about all the work in the collection.

"The complete art collection is now viewable online. The database has more than 13,000 catalogued works, making it one of the most impressive in Canada," says Edmundson.

Times for the Art Gallery Open House are: Oct. 13, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Oct. 14, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Oct. 15, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Oct. 16, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Visit the Art Gallery website at www.uleth.ca/artgallery

Art Gallery Open House

trevor.kenney — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:59:12 +0000

Drop by and get a glimpse of all the work that goes on behind the scenes at the U of L Art Gallery as they host an Open House, Oct. 13-16.

If you've ever wondered why you are not supposed to touch artwork, this is your opportunity to find out.

"We'll have stations set up with several options for looking at works, materials and images of the conservation process. It'll give people a sense of the scope of the assessment and treatment for conservation as well as our general gallery operations," says Mills. "It will also help people understand the how the Art Gallery supports Art History/Museum Studies students."

Gallery preparator, Jane Edmundson, looks forward to showing visitors the processes used in the Gallery's conservation project.

The new digital collection database provides students, researchers and the curious with a means to learn about all the work in the collection.

"The complete art collection is now viewable online. The database has more than 13,000 catalogued works, making it one of the most impressive in Canada," says Edmundson.

Times for the Art Gallery Open House are: Oct. 13, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Oct. 14, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Oct. 15, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Oct. 16, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Visit the Art Gallery website at www.uleth.ca/artgallery

Collage aux folles in Christou Gallery

trevor.kenney — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:59:29 +0000

The Helen Christou Gallery exposes compelling layers of the U of L Art Collection with Collage aux folles, on display from June 11 to Aug. 28 in the Helen Christou Gallery.

The exhibition explores collage as a formative creative process and elevated fine art technique using enticing selections from both Canadian and American artists.

"The collage process embodies the ideas of postmodernism more perfectly than perhaps any other in contemporary art making," says exhibition curator Jane Edmundson. "Though the technique is as ancient as paper itself, collage rose to fine art status in the early 20th century when Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque employed it in their Cubist compositions to heighten the visual collision between media and the surface plane of the canvas."

"The technique continued to be popular with Dada artists, who created the first photomontages that have since become ubiquitous in the current digital age of Photoshop pastiche," she says. "Collage's sustained popularity with conceptual artists has not been limited to visual media; cinematic montage and the samples and remixes of popular music also demonstrate how this process of appropriated layering is prevalent in our daily lives."

Featuring works by Ron Kitai, Deborah Shackleton, Takao Tanabe, Tony Urquhart and Kim Kozzi of Fast Wurms, this exhibition showcases a wide example of collage styles and forms.

"The artwork I chose ranges from quick sketches to fully realized objects, demonstrating how collage has been utilized as both a formative creative process and elevated fine art technique," says Edmundson. "While some make use of found objects or re-appropriated print images, others focus on overlapping texture, colour and shape to arrive at a more abstract final product."

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