Week 9

Discuss ideas for Conceptual Portrait – Roundtable

Discuss readings – Tom Friedman and Micah Lexier

Also look at Germaine Koh, Sophie Calle, Jon Sasaki

-Work time in class

Visit to the Art Gallery of Guelph


Current

Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future

January 19.2023 / May 14.2023

The first exhibition to explore pioneering feminist artist Mary Kelly’s long engagement with activist movements.

More Jason Lujan: Under a Star-Filled SkyJanuary 19.2023 / April 30.2023Connecting aspects of Indigenous cosmology to wider cultural meanings, this exhibition speaks to the idea of seeing through space.More 

Five molded sculptures of faces with cracked appearances piled randomly on top of each other

Insoon Ha: Dirge

January 19.2023 / April 30.2023

Taking root during pandemic lockdowns, this installation acknowledges loss while offering a space for grief and mourning.Creative DissentJanuary 19.2023 / May 14.2023This exhibition speaks to the connections between art and social activism and to the visual aesthetics that emerge from protest.Kara Springer: Death Defying Acts and Everyday AbstractionsJanuary 19.2023 / April 30.2023This work chronicles the artist’s experience of pregnancy amid reports of high maternal mortality rates experienced by Black women in the U.S.

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