BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ahva.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211021T1506Z-1634828773.3701-EO-26732-37@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240329T011845Z CREATED:20190404T224729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210816T202312Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190502T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190609T170000 SUMMARY: Shores: MFA Graduate Exhibition DESCRIPTION: May 3–June 9\, 2019 Opening Reception: Thursday\, May 2\, 6:00 -9:00 pm The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is pleased to present Shor es\, an exhibition of work by the 2019 graduates of the University of Briti sh Columbia’s two-year Master of Fine Arts program: Angela Glanzmann\, Came ron Kerr\, Mandana Mansouri\, Ramey Newell and Weronika Stepien. This progr am in […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Morris and Helen B elkin Art Gallery is pleased to present Shores\, an exhibition of work by t he 2019 graduates of the University of British Columbia’s two-year Master o f Fine Arts program: Angela Glanzmann\, Cameron Kerr\, Mandana Mans ouri\, Ramey Newell and Weronika Stepien. This program in the Depa rtment of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory is limited each year to a sma ll group of four to six artists\, who over the two years foster different s ensibilities developed within an intimate and discursive working environmen t.
Angela Glanzmann (Cana dian\, b. 1991) is a queer settler\, artist and art worker currently based in the unceded lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish)\, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She works in video\, performance\, sculpture and installation to investigate connections of post-trauma\, aff ect\, labour\, precarity and their latent markings on a body. She received her BFA from NSCAD University (2013). Glanzmann has exhibited in galleries and artist-run centres across Canada and has attended residencies both nati onally and in Europe. She has received grants from Canada Council for the A rts\, Arts Nova Scotia and SSHRC\, and is currently a recipient of the BC B inning Memorial Fellowship.
Cameron Kerr (Canadian\, b. 1974) works in sculpture and photography. Born in Camp bell River on Vancouver Island\, he studied sculpture and art history at th e Academy of Fine Arts\, Carrara\, Italy (1994-97). After receiving his BFA from Emily Carr University (2007)\, he continued his practice in Berlin on a Canada Council grant (2008-09). His sculptures have been displayed outsi de in Vancouver at the Contemporary Art Gallery\, Emily Carr University of Art and Design\, Queen Elizabeth Theatre and Bloedel Conservatory. Kerr has had solo exhibitions in Vancouver at Blanket Gallery (2007)\, Grey Church (2012)\, Field Contemporary (2015) and upcoming at Trap Projects (Fall 2019 ).
Mand ana Mansouri (Iranian\, b. 1982) is an interdisciplinary artist wo rking with still and moving images\, language\, performance and site-specif ic installations. Her work is concerned with image making\, language\, spac e\, displacement\, power and visibility. Her recent body of work\,Pract ice for Dying in Studio #4012\, references the art historical and theo retical basis for photographic images\, the relationship between text and i mages and the way in which space forms and functions. Mansouri holds a BSc in Architecture (2005) and an MSc in Urban Design (2012). Her work has been included in recent exhibitions at HEKLER Medium\, New York (2018)\, AHVA G allery\, UBC (2018)\, Gallery 1515\, Vancouver (2017) and Azad Art Gallery\ , Tehran (2017). Mansouri has collaborated with art collectives such as Pho tocopy\, New Media Society and Architecture Urbanism Circle in Tehran. Prio r to her work as an artist\, Mansouri worked as an architect\, urban design er\, community organizer\, translator and writer.
Ramey Newell (American\, b. 1983) is a filmmaker and artist whose practice explores iss ues relating to ecology\, scientific epistemologies\, anthropocentrism\, my thologies of the American West and the expectations of documentary image. H er photographic projects and experimental films have shown in festivals\, g alleries\, museums and other art spaces throughout the US\, the UK\, Canada and Australia\, including at the Polygon Gallery\, North Vancouver (2018)\ , the National Gallery of Art\, Washington\, DC (2018) and Deluge Contempor ary Art\, Victoria (2018). Newell was a 2016 Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow ( New York)\, has received private foundation artist grants and is a current recipient of the BC Binning Memorial Fellowship. She holds a BFA in Photogr aphy from New Mexico State University and a graduate certificate in Interdi sciplinary Documentary Media Practices from the University of Colorado at B oulder.
Weronika Stepien’s (Po lish-American\, b. 1984) practice incorporates 3D animation\, drawing\, pai nting and sculpture. In her work\, Stepien re-inscribes the representationa l tropes and technology of gaming and fantasy CGI animation into a non-hedo nistic visual matrix. In her videos\, disposable forms\, the various CGI su bjects\, are caught by the space\, separated. Some digested obj. files beco me absorbed by clones\, other forms or their environment. Stepien graduated from Emily Carr University’s Film and Video and Integrated Media program i n 2009 and is currently a recipient of the BC Binning Memorial Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited at the UBC AHVA Gallery (2017)\, grunt gallery (2018)\, Gallery Gachet (2014) and at numerous screening events.
This exhibition is presented with support from the Department of Ar t History\, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia.
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