Please join us on Tuesday November 14, 6pm in CFA 130 for a public talk by Athena Papadopoulos for the Sculpture Talk Lecture Series.
Athena Papadopoulos was born in Toronto and currently lives and works in the UK. She has exhibited extensively across Europe with solo exhibitions at MOSTYN, Wales; Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon; CURA Basement, Rome; and Shoot the Lobster, NYC. Participation in group exhibitions has been numerous, most recently her works have been presented at spaces including the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Los Angeles and Museo Madre, Naples. Past group exhibitions include Drawing Room, London; David Roberts Art Foundation; London and Herald St., London; as well as at Peres Projects, Berlin.
Sculpture Talk Lecture series invites contemporary sculptors to York University to share and discuss recent projects, working methodologies and materialities. These talks are free of charge and open to all. Presented by the Department of Visual Arts and Art History, and generously sponsored by the LL Odette Foundation.
Please RSVP here by Nov 13, 5:00pm
Please join us on Wednesday March 29, 6pm in CFA 312 for a public talk by artist Sameer Farooq for the Sculpture Talk Lecture series.
Sameer Farooq is a Canadian artist of Pakistani and Ugandan Indian descent. With a versatile approach that shifts between sculpture, photography, documentary film, and anthropological methods, he investigates strategies of representation to expand the ways through which museums have looked at the past through traditional forms of collection, interpretation and display. Farooq foregrounds community-based models of knowledge production and an array of contemplative practices in order to suggest new ways of narrating our cultural histories. The result is often a collaborative work which counterbalances how dominant institutions speak about our lives: a counter-archive, new additions to a museum collection, or a buried history made visible. Together with the public he works to redress the role of exhibition and collection-based practices by employing decolonial, queer, and critical race lenses.
Farooq has held exhibitions at institutions around the world including Fonderie Darling, Montréal (2022); Susan Hobbs, Toronto (2022); Koffler Gallery, Toronto (2021); Patel Brown, Toronto (2021); Lilley Museum, Reno (2019); Aga Khan Museum, Toronto (2017); Institute of Islamic Culture, Paris (2017); Contempo- rary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2016); The British Library, London (2015); Maquis Projects, Izmir (2015); Artellewa, Cairo (2014); and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2011). Reviews dedicated to his work have been published by Art Forum, Canadian Art, The Washington Post, BBC Culture, Hyperallergic, Artnet, The Huffington Post, and C Magazine. He is an alumni of the prestigious Bemis Center Residency.
Sculpture Talk Lecture series invites contemporary sculptors to York University to share and discuss recent projects, working methodologies and materialities. These talks are free of charge and open to all. Presented by the Department of Visual Arts and Art History, and generously sponsored by the LL Odette Foundation
FOR STUDENTS - HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
Any student enrolled in a VISA or AH undergrad course can submit: Works must have been created for a course offered over 2022-23 academic year.
Third and fourth year VAAH Majors are eligible for prizes!
Keep an eye out for the Calls For Submissions, or speak to your instructors about how to submit works for the Area Exhibitions and Open House.
Please join us on Wednesday, Feb 8, at 6PM in CFA 312 for our third Sculpture Talk Lecture series guest Iris Häussler.
Born in Germany, Häussler studied sculpture and conceptual art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Heribert Sturm. Early on, her perception of “sculpture” would consider the context, e.g. the architectural, social and historic space of origin and destination. This led her to create site-specific installations, of which her immersive environments of fictitious legacies are most known in the artworld. Because Häussler is interested in the fragile boundaries between fiction and reality, she often does not immediately reveal her authorship nor that these installations are contemporary artworks.
Häussler’s work is shown internationally. She was a stipendiary of the Kunstfonds (Bonn) and won the Karl Hofer Prize 1999 (Berlin). In 2010 she was invited on the Cape Farewell (UK) High Arctic Expedition. Since her immigration to Canada she received grants from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the Chalmers Arts Fellowship, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Sculpture Talks Lecture series invites contemporary sculptors to York University to share and discuss recent projects, working methodologies and materialities. These talks are free of charge and open to all. Presented by the Department of Visual Arts and Art History, and generously sponsored by the LL Odette Foundation.
Please join us on Wednesday January 11, 6pm for a public talk by artist Catherine Telford Keogh for the Sculpture Talk Lecture series. This event will be held online over ZOOM.
Sculpture Talk Lecture series invites contemporary sculptors to York University to share and discuss recent projects, working methodologies and materialities. These talks are free of charge and open to all. Presented by the Department of Visual Arts and Art History, and generously sponsored by the LL Odette Foundation.
Catherine Telford Keogh is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is concerned with fantasies and promises embedded in objects that breakdown through an amalgam of material relations and biological processes. She foregrounds material agency and the half-life of images to investigate the cohabitation of incongruous materials while highlighting systems of excessive consumption under capitalism. Telford Keogh received an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art and an MAR in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Yale University. She has held recent solo exhibitions at Erin Stump Projects (Toronto); Helena Anrather (New York); Roberta Palen (Toronto) and UWAG (Waterloo). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Galeria Fidelidade Arte (Lisbon); Canadian Cultural Centre (Paris); Public Gallery (London); Someday Gallery (New York); Bronx Museum (New York); Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran (Montreal); Seattle Art Museum (Washington); Thkio Ppalies (Cyprus), and Interstate (New York); among others. Telford Keogh has received grants from Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2020. She is an artist-in-residence at the Pelling Laboratory for Augmented Biology at the University of Ottawa where she is currently examining the biodegradation of petrochemical products.
Please join us for the inaugural lecture in the Sculpture Talk Lecture series, featuring artist Nadia Belerique, Weds, Nov 23, 5PM. CFA 312.
Sculpture Talk Lecture series invites contemporary sculptors to York University to share and discuss recent projects, working methodologies and materialities. These talks are free of charge and open to all. Presented by the Department of Visual Arts and Art History, and generously sponsored by the LL Odette Foundation.
Refreshments provided, hope to see you there!