Woodlot: The 3rd KW|AG Biennial
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
July 11 - September 9, 2007
Ruth Abernethy, Kelly Borgers, Jefferson Campbell-Cooper, Susan Detwiler, Niall Donaghy, Andrika Dubeckyj, Annie Dunning, Fatima Garzan, Lauren Hall, Arnold Jacobs, Janet Morton, Marinko Pipunic, Red, Andrew Wright
Guest curator: Sally McKay
Exhibition sponsor: The Walter Fedy Partnership
Opening: Wednesday, July 11, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Curator’s Talk with Kelly Borgers and Arnold Jacobs: Thursday, July 12, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
This group exhibition celebrates visual art practice in the Region of Waterloo and the Counties of Wellington, Brant, Oxford and Perth. Guest Curator Sally McKay brings together the work of 14 artists in the 3rd installment of the eagerly anticipated KW|AG Biennial. Representing the emerging and established, Woodlot offers a focused look at contemporary art production in the region.
Southwestern Ontario is not a wilderness. It is a cultivated landscape of agriculture and industry, dissected by major highways and pressured by the sad tedium of urban sprawl. And yet, for anyone who has spent time in the region, the experience of nature runs deep and strong. In spring, the rivers Nith and Grand swell and threaten to overflow their banks. Killdeer and meadowlarks stake their claim on summer fields while red-tailed hawks circle the sky, striking fear into the hearts of tiny mammals down below. Mourning doves dot the telephone wires, and usher in the evenings with soft sad hoots. In autumn, the woodlots explode in dazzling colour, and the wide white fields of winter are laced with the shadowy tracks of rabbits and coyotes.
As humans, we have come to a point when our responsibility for climate change simply cannot be ignored. In this context, the concept of "regional artist" carries much more importance than a postal code. Woodlot is not an overtly political exhibition, and yet all of the artists, in their own way, are deeply engaged with the reciprocal relationship between humans and the natural world. Some of the works are joyful, some are scientific, some are angry, some are funny, some are sad, and some are telling stories. Together, the artists in this diverse exhibition probe at the role of art in expressing an historic, cultural, and spiritual sense of place. – Sally McKay
An online publication featuring a curator’s essay and images of the works in the exhibition will be available at www.kwag.on.ca
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
101 Queen Street North
Kitchener, ON
Canada
N2H 6P7
Tel: 519.579.5860 Fax: 519.578.0740
Email: mail@kwag.on.ca
Web: www.kwag.on.ca
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I am really looking forward to the opening!
Thanks! It's going to be a fun show.
Congrats Sally!
Thanks J! Installation is this week - It'll be great to finally see all the work together in the space. It's going to be a full gallery.
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Woodlot: The 3rd KW|AG Biennial
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
July 11 - September 9, 2007
Ruth Abernethy, Kelly Borgers, Jefferson Campbell-Cooper, Susan Detwiler, Niall Donaghy, Andrika Dubeckyj, Annie Dunning, Fatima Garzan, Lauren Hall, Arnold Jacobs, Janet Morton, Marinko Pipunic, Red, Andrew Wright
Guest curator: Sally McKay
Exhibition sponsor: The Walter Fedy Partnership
Opening: Wednesday, July 11, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Curator’s Talk with Kelly Borgers and Arnold Jacobs: Thursday, July 12, 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
This group exhibition celebrates visual art practice in the Region of Waterloo and the Counties of Wellington, Brant, Oxford and Perth. Guest Curator Sally McKay brings together the work of 14 artists in the 3rd installment of the eagerly anticipated KW|AG Biennial. Representing the emerging and established, Woodlot offers a focused look at contemporary art production in the region.
Southwestern Ontario is not a wilderness. It is a cultivated landscape of agriculture and industry, dissected by major highways and pressured by the sad tedium of urban sprawl. And yet, for anyone who has spent time in the region, the experience of nature runs deep and strong. In spring, the rivers Nith and Grand swell and threaten to overflow their banks. Killdeer and meadowlarks stake their claim on summer fields while red-tailed hawks circle the sky, striking fear into the hearts of tiny mammals down below. Mourning doves dot the telephone wires, and usher in the evenings with soft sad hoots. In autumn, the woodlots explode in dazzling colour, and the wide white fields of winter are laced with the shadowy tracks of rabbits and coyotes.
As humans, we have come to a point when our responsibility for climate change simply cannot be ignored. In this context, the concept of "regional artist" carries much more importance than a postal code. Woodlot is not an overtly political exhibition, and yet all of the artists, in their own way, are deeply engaged with the reciprocal relationship between humans and the natural world. Some of the works are joyful, some are scientific, some are angry, some are funny, some are sad, and some are telling stories. Together, the artists in this diverse exhibition probe at the role of art in expressing an historic, cultural, and spiritual sense of place. – Sally McKay
An online publication featuring a curator’s essay and images of the works in the exhibition will be available at www.kwag.on.ca
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
101 Queen Street North
Kitchener, ON
Canada
N2H 6P7
Tel: 519.579.5860 Fax: 519.578.0740
Email: mail@kwag.on.ca
Web: www.kwag.on.ca
- sally mckay 7-04-2007 7:41 pm
I am really looking forward to the opening!
- L.M. 7-04-2007 8:14 pm
Thanks! It's going to be a fun show.
- sally mckay 7-04-2007 8:19 pm
Congrats Sally!
- J@simpleposie (guest) 7-04-2007 8:28 pm
Thanks J! Installation is this week - It'll be great to finally see all the work together in the space. It's going to be a full gallery.
- sally mckay 7-04-2007 8:32 pm