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LifeBoat: An Unnatural History presents viewers with allegorical depictions of transitional precariousness and migratory flight.  Inspired by natural history museum displays as well as historical and current events, it invokes complex and overlapping social, political, ethical, and cultural issues.

The project began, in part, while researching my family genealogy and discovering an ancestor, Anne Dodin, who came to Québec in 1669 along with dozens of other young French girls. 

The Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery proudly presents the graduating work of the AEC Commercial Photography students. Glimpse Redux shows the work of 13 students, given the freedom to show the breadth and experimentation nurtured at ³Ô¹ÏÉçÇø. Organized by student Jean Fred Bédard with Faculty member Denis Gendron.

Featuring the work of:  Flore Michèle Boubila, Florence Boulianne, Kabil Bala Krishna, Jennifer Carmelo, Marina Afansiev, Pantea Pezeshkan, Jennifer Ann Dick, Serena Wolfe, Sara Elkady, Alma Perreault, Ana Isabel Duque, Noushin Bahraini, and Jean Fred Bédard,

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A catalyst is a force beyond reckoning. It embodies strength, power, and an unwavering will to move forward — to push ahead and reach for something beyond the present.

A catalyst is confident, energizing the world with vitality, purpose, and assertive direction. It does not accept ‘no’ for an answer.

A catalyst sparks something new with determination, following its intuition wherever it leads.

It is only fitting that the second year Visual Arts students at ³Ô¹ÏÉçÇø have chosen Catalyst 25 as the title of their graduating exhibition.

In this exhibition, Sarah-Mecca Abdourahman explores the complexities of memory and nostalgia in her everlasting search for a connection to her parent’s homelands, Somalia and India.  A longing for home that can bring grief and joy.  Delving into these contrasting emotions, Abdourahman’s work moves between themes of haunting and healing, evoking the bittersweet.  Her yearning is woven into the fabric of multimedia-painted blankets and installations which allude to both the innocence of childhood, and its nightmares.

Since its inception in1992, the Faculty of Fine Arts Biennial has showcased the varied practices of teachers from the Department of Fine Arts, offering students and the community the opportunity to glimpse their work outside of the classroom.

Their contributions to this exhibition span a variety of media—painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, and the written word, among others—illustrating a profound engagement with both traditional practices and new technologies.   At the core of the many explorations that this exhibition offers are complexities surrounding the environment (both natural and built);

NOW EXTENDED UNTIL JANUARY 17th!  

Featuring the work of: Lucas Berry, Joshua Bubis, Zikai Chen, Dean Daltirus, Ashley Dumas, Renaud Duplessis, Jhosua Farid Pinzon Euan, Manekha Gadiano-Dimaano, Carol Hallak, Zhichao Huang, Xenia Jeffery-Off, Jasmeen Kaur, Dua Khan, Zachary LeMenn, Adèle L’Heureux-Hubert, Jordan Markle, Benjamin McAuley, Zachary Mercier, Cody Neglia, Michael Picardo, Hugo Santamaria and Trevon Shand.

³Ô¹ÏÉçÇø’s Department of Professional Photography presents Continuum, an exhibition featuring the work of students approaching the end of their three-year program. 

This exhibition brings together the work of 11 of ³Ô¹ÏÉçÇø’s most recognized Visual Arts Alumni with that of their former teacher—artist, writer, and curator Giuseppe (Joe) Di Leo.

Celebrating the reciprocal and circular journey between mentor and mentees, the exhibition will focus on the multi-faceted forms of drawing: abbreviated gestures, sketches schematics, faithfully rendered recordings, executed in a range of treatment and approaches on any surface.  Revealing the multiplicities and meanderings of human existence, these artists present drawing as a means to  probe, record, and conger vivid expressions of imagined and complex realities.

in between you and me is a solo exhibition of select works by Vancouver-based emerging artist Cassia Powell.

This body of work develops themes exploring what writer Gavin Butt refers to as a ‘social activity which produces and maintains the filiations of the artistic community,’ namely – gossip. Using soft-sculptures and oil paintings, in between you and me explores intimacy, vulnerability, story-telling, and worldbuilding through painting and fibres-based installation.

The Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery is proud to offer it’s first ever summer artist residency to alumna Sylvia Trotter Ewens (Fine Arts, 2014).  Sylvia will utilize the time and space to advance paintings and work on projections in completion of her MFA (Painting) at Concordia University.

She writes, ‘This is a body of work pulling from writings I’ve made on my time caregiving and experiencing loss after my mother’s passing. In these writings I used the garden as an allegory for these experiences as I tackled the memories of this time through writing and painting as a means to congeal its memory. 

Following the path of a two-year intensive Visual Arts program is not an easy task. Students are asked to be vulnerable, to open themselves up, to do things they have never done before. They are challenged and pushed to their creative limits. All their hard work, talent and ambition have culminated into Expo 24: Visions Unveiled, a thoughtful, inspiring, and creative exhibition.

Exhibiting students:  Chloé Amblard, Leo Anderson-Aubin, Maya Aupin, Orly Benyaminov, Isa Bernales, Carolanne Blais, Olivia Bourque, Catherine Buckley, Emma Chaaban, Emy Croteau, Simone Deschênes, Sofiane Dupuis, Aïyana Faye-Giard, Hailey Gardner, Dinesa Ghosh, Keana Hétu, Zihao Ji, E.A.