Please join us at the AHVA Gallery for AHVA Emerita Professor Barbara Zeigler’s retrospective exhibition R eflection Point\, opening November 1 at 5:00 p.m.
Please join us at the AHVA Gallery
for AHVA Emerita Professor Barbara Zeigler’s retrospective exhibition R
eflection Point\, opening November 1 at 5:00 p.m.
This exhibitio n presents a selection of work Zeigler completed over the past five decades broadly focused on the ever-shifting relations between ecosystems and huma n cultural structures. Early works from the 1970s dealt with Zeigler’s init ial recognition of issues related to environmental degradation. As Zeigler began to more profoundly understand the precariousness of human existence\, the importance of appreciating the interrelatedness of all life forms and human actions\, and the delicate balance that must be maintained\, the earl y 1980s brought in a more introspective print and drawing phase. Assuming a different vantage point to contemplate the many related issues\, the E arthmakers project during the 1990s involved a large-scale study and c ollaborative print installation undertaken with Joan Smith\, focused on the soil fauna inhabiting one square metre of old-growth forest soil on northe rn Vancouver Island. These works were followed in the 2000s and 2010s by fu rther excursions on land in the interior of BC and by water up the coast. P rinted works from this period may be seen in the Fraser River\, Adams R iver\, Journey’s Junction\, and the Past Desire Catches the Cloake d Present series. More recent works have dealt with concerns such as time and change\, as evidenced in the three-channel video Passa ges and the print Change. Both works function somewhat as mes merizing metronomes\, setting intervals of time\, reflection points regardi ng climate change\, the insufficient proactive action of humanity\, and the need for equitable structural change.
Zeigler received her B FA in painting and her MFA in printmaking from the University of Illinois. She taught at UBC for forty-one years\, mentoring generations of student ar tists at the undergraduate and graduate levels\, and was central to keeping the practice of printmaking vital through establishing the Print Media Res earch Centre in the department in 2003. Although her main area of expertise is printmaking\, over the years she also taught courses focused on drawing \, painting\, photography\, and installation and designed the first digital -imaging course in the department\, all of which often interfaced in some w ay with print media.
Zeigler’s artworks have been widely exhibited in ternationally including recent invitational exhibitions such as the Third a nd Fourth International IAPA Printmaking Biennales\, Kunming Museum\, Yunna n Province (China)\, 2020 and 2022\; II international Triennial of Contempo rary Graphic Art\, Novosibirsk State Art Museum\, Novosibirsk (Russia)\, 20 18\; International Print Exhibition: Canada and Japan\, exhibited in 2016–17 in Kyoto and Tokushima (Japan)\, Edmonton (Alberta)\, and Regina (Saskatchewan)\; Circumference and Radius\, a traveling exhibitio n of international artists\, 2015–17\; Ritual and Change\, a 2015 solo exhibition at the Renke Art Gallery\, Hangzhou (China)\; and the 2013 International Print Triennial Kraków interfaces-istanbul (Turkey)\ , and In.Print.Out\, Vienna (Austria).
Learn more about Barbara Zeigler and her work.
Novem ber 2–December 1\, 2023
Opening reception: Wednesday\, November 1\, 5 :00–8:00 p.m.
AHVA Gallery
Audain Art Centre\, 6398 University B
oulevard\, Vancouver
Gallery hours: Monday–Saturday\, 12:00–4:00 p.m.<
br />Gallery will be closed from November 11 to 15\, 2023 for reading break
The artist will be present at the opening and Saturdays\, November 4 \, 18\, and 25\, 1:00–4:00 p.m.
We acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver campus is situated on the traditional\, ancestral\, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).
Image: The Melt\, 2015\, dig ital archival pigment print
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