Fine Arts Fall Articulation Series 2010
The Langara College Fine Arts Department invites the general public and those interested in art to attend the FREE lecture series. This is an opportunity to meet practicing artists and hear about their projects and thought processes.
All lectures are held in room A046 (Design Studio) at 1:15 pm.
January 13: Eliza Au is a ceramic-based artist educated at ECUAD, NASCAD, and the NY state College of Ceramics. She has exhibited at the Richmond Art Gallery and the Kelowna Art Gallery, and will be included in the 66th Scripps Ceramic Annual. Eliza is interested in how sacred space is transformed by the use of pattern and geometry in Gothic and Islamic architecture.
January 27: Eszter Burghardt has been painting full-time since 2004, when she exhibited with the Augen Gallery in Portland and has been exhibiting with Bau-Xi Gallery since 2005. Her most recent work, which will be shown in Toronto this spring, was based on an artist residency stay in Iceland in 2009. Eszter will address the process of residencies in terms of finding one, taking part in one and developing a body of work in that context.
February 10: Adina Edwards works in the downtown east-side of Vancouver in a social work capacity for those who are marginalized. Her socially engaged MFA thesis installation for 2009 at the University of Calgary, Behind the Red Curtain, deals with issues of power structures in institutions, oppression, gender, and sexuality.
March 10: Joe Montague was born in Montreal and moved to Vancouver in 1968, where he studied at Langara College (Fine Arts Diploma), UBC (B.Ed.) and Emily Carr (photography and printmaking). In 1979 he moved to New York to continue studying printmaking, and was employed as Assistant to the Director at Pratt Graphics Center. Later he worked in the storage and preparations department at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and set up and ran the etching department at Watanabe Studio Ltd. Since moving back to Vancouver in 1992, he has continued to work in a variety of media. In 1995, Montague won the public art competition for the central downtown Vancouver public library at Library Square with his installation, Fountain of Time. Aside from teaching and commissions he has worked in the motion picture industry since 1994 in various capacities, chiefly as a scenic painter. In 2003 he was one of the team of draughtsmen who executed Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing #1100 at the Pearson Airport in Toronto.
Recently Joseph collaborated with Greenpeace Canada as graphic designer for the CD titled Amchitka - The 1970 concert that launched Greenpeace featuring Joni Mitchell, James Taylor and Phil Ochs. It was released on November 10, 2009.
March 24: Steven Hubert is a Kelowna-born Vancouver-based artist who graduated from Emily Carr Institute in 2007. Bearing the imprint of previous study in English literature, his work in painting, sculpture, drawing and video takes cues from poetics (in a certain sense) with a backsplash of history that is partly logical, partly mystical, and perforated by alternating bouts of the simple and the complex. He has exhibited in Vancouver at CSA Space, Or Gallery, Helen Pitt Gallery, Shudder Gallery, LES, Emergency Room Strathcona, Jeffrey Boone Gallery, Cafca, as well as Eyelevel Gallery (Halifax), Ministry of Casual Living (Victoria) and 2of2 Gallery (Toronto). His work has appeared in Pyramid Power and The Fillip Review.
Learn more.
Lesley Finlayson
Department Chair, Fine Arts
lfinlayson@langara.bc.ca