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This latest body of work by Graeme Patterson tells a nostalgic story of two characters who embark on a series of bittersweet adventures.  From childhood to adulthood, stages of life are conveyed in idiosyncratic animated videos that accompany large sculptures containing highly detailed miniature worlds.  Each of the sculptures reflects on a stage of life.  Though Patterson focuses on male friendships, viewers can relate to the subtleties and complexities inherent in all close relationships.

Antonia Hirsch's practice testifies to a long-standing engagement with the quantitative, spatial and syntactic systems that structure an understanding of our universe.  The opposite of chaos, cosmos can be defined as a complex and organized system: the ordered universe.  Hirsch's work often relates these ordering structures to embodied and visual experience, considering how the ideological nature of these representational systems expresses itself through particular forms of abstraction.

David Hoffos was born in Montréal and grew up in a string of cities in Ontario, Alberta, and Australia.  He began making experimental films at the age of 10.  After many failed attempts to go to film school, Hoffos finally entered the Department of Art at the University of Lethbridge in 1990 where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1994.  Since 1992 Hoffos has maintained an active  practice – with over 50 group shows, hundreds of screenings, dozens of school and community collaborations, a few works for the stage and over 40 solo exhibitions, including a recent survey at the National

Getting Back To Dust

Some Music As I See It:

Composition, Transcription, and Improvisation in New Work by Jeff Morton

This talk will focus on Hannah Claus’ beginnings at art school and the process that goes into creating her installations.

BIOGRAPHY

Artist’s Statement

“My work takes one’s everyday experience as the subject and transforms it into simple forms to evoke personal responses while maintaining uncertainty and distanced readings to the subject. The juxtaposition of simple elements creates dialogues within and potentially generates personal attachment and implication. It is through the collection and the re-enactment of materials, spaces, observations and meanings that the complexity of one’s perception toward everyday life would be reminded and recognized.“

Janet Morton produces conceptually based work, using knitting and sewing in ways described as symbolic and subversive. She has created indoor and outdoor installations, including over-scaled items of clothing, 10,000 cloth leaves for trees, and ambitious collaborative works with other knitters. In 1999, for the last winter of the 20th century, the artist installed Cozy, a knitted cover for her house, over a year in the making and including hand-knit architectural details.

David Miller is the 2014 winner of the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography.

“In an era of fleeting snapshots that appear and disappear in cyberspace, his works are testament to the power of photographs as objects – time bound memorials of elusive subjects. Miller’s practice is a persistent enquiry into the nature and act of photography itself.” http://canadacouncil.ca/council/artists/d/david-miller-duke-duchessofyork

Canadian poet, translator and essayist Erín Moure gives a talk and tour of the current exhibition senselikeblueplace.