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Artist Receptions
The EAGM hosts receptions for exhibiting artists whenever possible. Events such as these allow visitors to meet artists and learn more about their work. The artists give a brief talk or walkthrough of their art practice and answer questions from the crowd. The gallery provides refreshments throughout the event. Artist Receptions last approx. 2 hours, and are "come and go" style. There is no dress code and everyone is invited to attend. Children are also welcome to come with their families.  Scheduled artist talks are typically congruent with the receptions and begin approximately 1/2 hour into the reception.

Gallery I Exhibit

Volume Maskull Lasserre Curated by: Griffith Aaron Baker August 10th, 2010 - September 30th, 2010 Reception: August 12th, 2010 | 7:00 - 9:00p Artist Talk / Slide Show: August 12th, 2010 | 3:00p   Maskull Lasserre's drawings and sculptures explore the unexpected potential of the everyday and its associated structures of authority, class, and value. Elements of nostalgia, allegory, humour, and the macabre are incorporated into works that induce strangeness in the familiar, and provoke uncertainty in the expected. Lasserre was born 1978 in Calgary, Alberta. He spent his childhood in South Africa and returned to Canada to settle in the Ottawa area. He studied visual art and philosophy at Mount Allision University ( BFA - Sackville, NB), and sculpture at Concordia University (MFA - Montreal, QC).  He now lives and works in Montreal, QC. Lasserre has been awarded several public sculpture commissions, including the latest for the City of Ottawa Shenkman Arts Center in 2009. He has exhibited widely across Canada, and is represented in the collections of the Government of Canada (Transport Canada, DND), Canada Council for the Arts, and the City of Ottawa. He was also a recent participant in the Canadian Forces War Artist Program in Afghanistan. Maskull Lasserre, Epiphany, 2010, Bronze and Violin, 32" x 9" x 11" (81cm x 23cm x 28cm)

Maskull Lasserre, Six Shot Six String, 2010, Wood, Flocking, Strings, Revolver, 27" x 16" x 17" (69cm x 41cm x 43cm)

 

 

Gallery II Exhibit

Danielle Margaret Davies


Drift


Curated by: Griffith Aaron Baker
August 26th, 2010 - October 9th, 2010
Artist Talk and Reception: August 27th, 2010 | 7:00 - 9:00p

Close your eyes, but do not let the your eyelids shut completely. Allow your vision to expand through the space creating a soft focus. Quietly enter, trying not to disrupt the others. The size of the space is unpredictable but you know that you are not alone. You feel them against your skin, but you have no idea what they look like, what they are or what they want. Try not to tense your body; any subtle movement or even thoughts of movement will create awareness of your presence. Pay close attention to your breath. Try not to breathe with your lungs, but place the breath in a new location, diluting its intensity. Slowly begin to open your eyes fully. The movement continues to resonate. Are you causing them to move or are they moving you? The lines become blurred. It is impossible to avoid interaction with this species that is both separate and a part of the space which it inhabits. They strongly confront you without being invasive or threatening. You experience an environment that allows you to escape your own body. You can allow the space to take you beyond the physical, beyond the body and space. Let drifting occur without effort. Try not to censor your mobility. When a solid form moves through water, there is a visual echo of its path. It is not simply a reproduction of the original gesture, but it becomes something new altogether. A predetermined path results in a lack of fluidity. Are you still walking around them or have you been passing straight through them not intentionally thinking about what will result? Do not simply copy a movement. Flock the gesture. Soften your gaze and let the movement be something of its own.

Danielle Margaret Davies was born in Calgary, Alberta and raised in Scarborough, Ontario. She grew up among many cultural influences and has had exposure to diverse ideas and creative expressions.  In 2007, Danielle graduated from the Ontario College of Art & Design in Toronto, where she majored in Sculpture Installation (BFA).  In 2010 she completed her Masters Degree in Fine Arts at Concordia University (Montreal) with a concentration in Sculpture.

Danielle Margaret Davies, Drift (Installation), 2010, Synthetic Hair and Fabric, Dimensions Varied.

Project Wall Exhibit

 
Paracosms

Clare Samuel
September 1st, 2010 - November 27th, 2010
* No Reception Scheduled

Children wield great power for change; their minds are boundless and constantly inventing. Child psychologists use the term paracosm for the complex imaginary worlds many children create, arguing that their function is not escapism, but rather an imaginative power to see this world anew, essential in redefining the child's relationship to their environment, and to those around them. These images explore this potentiality, as well as addressing children's position within the natural and built environment. Although arranged in a traditionally subordinate pose, this different perspective imbues them with strength. From their apparently weak position they loom before us, questioning and defying our cynical gravity.

Clare Samuel is a Northern Irish artist living in Canada. She completed her BFA with honours in photography at Ryerson University, and is now completing an MFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University. She has exhibited across Canada and Europe and participated in international residencies in Germany, Ireland and Québec. In 2008 she was awarded the Roloff Beny Foundation Fellowship in Photography, and Best Still Image in Blackflash magazine's Optic Nerve competition. Her work will be included in the forthcoming Magenta foundation publication Flash Forward. She tends to work with themes of borders, between people, places, or states of being, and their contribution to the desire for belonging.

 
Clare Samuel, Leah (from Paracosms Series), 2006, C-Print, 21 1/2" x 30" (54.6 x 76cm).