The Belkin Art Gallery is pleas ed to present an exhibition of work by the 2008 graduates of UBC's two-year Master of Fine Art program.
Raymond Boisjoly's focu s is the equivocal status of materiality in the active pursuit of meaning m ade manifest through cultural phenomena. The transposition of a seasonal ob ject onto an indigenous form provides an opportunity to negotiate their cum ulative connotative potential.
Melanie Bond explores the relationship between physical geography and personal memory. Her seri es of photographs portray artists from Vancouver\, Canada\, and Chongqing\, China\, at a place with which they feel a connection.
Natali e Doonan employs a range of strategies including performance\, vid eo\, social networking and print media to playfully engage in productions o f subjectivity. The work that she has prepared for this exhibition is an h omage to the artist Veronika Martz\, who recently disappeared in the midst of research into a creation myth for an upcoming film.
Jesse Gray engages in the act of collecting—scavenging\, foraging\, garb age-picking\, alley-scrounging—and the practice of recombination\, as an in vestigation into the hidden meanings and secret histories of discarded obje cts and things.
Josh Hite's video work looks at how spaces and their arrangement are transformed by those who use them. Influe nced by Michel de Certeau\, Hite optimistically investigates potential and real confrontation between those who move through spaces\, and the physical structures designed to make them move.
Ryan Peter's paintings borrow from the history of photography—the daguerreotype\, aspec ts of Pictorialism\, and more recent phenomena such as x-ray and satellite photography. The techniques Peter employs in the application of paint\, suc h as pouring\, pooling\, and spraying\, create the potential for multiple r eadings of his work. This slippery representation undermines the apparent aspirations of the work to photographic distance and mimesis\, re-situating the work in the sphere of bodily and lived experience.
For more information contact Julie Bevan at julie.bevan@ubc.ca or 604 822 3640.
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
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