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PERSEVERE, PREVAIL, ENDURE
In her exhibition Le rêve aux loups, opening on September 15 at the Esker Foundation in Calgary, artist Mary Anne Barkhouse invokes the animal inhabitants of the land in artworks that reveal the transitory nature of empire, highlighting both the endurance and betrayals that delineate history north of the 49th parallel. In a presentation curator Jennifer Rudder will discuss the artworks that foreground the relationship between the human and animal realm with the environment, examining the role that art can play in ecological as well as political awareness.
Jennifer Rudder is an independent curator and Assistant Professor in the Criticism and Curatorial Practice Department at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto. Her critical essays and reviews of art have been published in Ontario in a wide variety of books, catalogues, anthologies and periodicals. She graduated from the Masters of Visual Studies: Curatorial Studies program at the University of Toronto in 2010. In her graduate thesis exhibition NATURAL HISTORY, each artwork evoked a moment in the history of the misguided and cruel captivity and display of wild animals and indigenous people. Her 1999 exhibition Crime and Punishment, curated for the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University, the use of photography in the 19th century to prove links between race and criminals was key to the analysis of the artworks. Inherent in all of her curatorial work is a critical examination of the historical misapplication of rationalism as evidenced in scientific theories and technologies that result in harmful effects on segments of society. As an independent, Rudder has curated numerous exhibitions most recently Glam North: Doris McCarthy and her New Contemporaries, co-curated with Alexander Irving at the Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto, Scarborough in 2014. She is curator of Le rêve aux loups, a solo survey exhibition of the works of Mary Anne Barkhouse that opens on Friday September 15th at the Esker Foundation in Calgary and continues until December.
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