Beginning Tuesday December 24, 2013, McIntosh Gallery will be closed for the holidays through until 10:00 A.M. on Thursday January 2, 2014.
For more information, contact Kay Nadalin, Communications and Outreach Coordinator, at knadali@uwo.ca.
After an outstanding public launch, Graphic Underground: London 1977-1990 is now available for purchase.
This lavishly illustrated, limited edition 250-page book includes texts by Tom Carmichael, Glenn Grant, Anna Hudson, Brian Lambert, Jan Maxwell, Mike Niederman, Rena O'Halloran, Ben Portis, Judith Purdy, and Chaz Vincent. The cost of the book is $40.00 taxes included.
Books are available:
-In person at McIntosh Gallery (cash only)
-In person at Speed City Records
-In person at Attic Books
-Online through The Bookstore at Western
For more information, contact McIntosh Gallery at mcintoshgallery@uwo.ca or 519-661-3181.
WHEN: From July 26 to September 2, 2013
WHERE: McIntosh Gallery
WHAT: Call for magazines
McIntosh Gallery will be hosting a collage party during O-Week 2013 at Western University. We are currently collecting materials to be used during this collaborative art event. Magazines, collage paper and picture books can be dropped off at the gallery during office hours, until September 2, 2013. The McIntosh Gallery collage party will be held on September 5 between 7 P.M. and 9 P.M. in the UCC atrium.
For more information, contact McIntosh Gallery at mcintoshgallery@uwo.ca or 519-661-3181.
Next time you walk into the University Community Center at Western University, make sure to look up and catch a glimpse of the Dickson Bou installation hanging from the ceiling. The series of large white foam core sculptures entitled Cherry Blossom Shipwreck, was installed earlier this year with the help of McIntosh Gallery staff.
Please visit our FLICKR page to see pictures of the installation process.
ESSAY ON DICKSON BOU
Clash of the Canvases is an exciting artistic showdown between community artists. Meet the artists who will be participating in this live-painting artistic battle.
WHEN: Wednesday, March 20, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 P.M.
WHERE: The apk, 347 Clarence St.
ADMISSION: $10 (Tickets available at Eventbrite.ca and at the door) 19+
T.J Brown
T.J. Brown was born and raised in Chatham, Ontario. He discovered his love for art at just two years old, when he grabbed a permanent marker and started drawing on everything in his parents' apartment as his father slept on the couch. He has been drawing ever since. After attending the University of Western Ontario in London for Visual Arts and Film Studies, he moved back to Chatham where he worked at the Chatham-Kent Black History Society. Since then, T.J.'s artwork was showcased in A Collection of Black Artists, a show at Chatham's Capitol Theatre dedicated to celebrate Black History Month in February of this year. He currently has work displayed in the Breaking Barriers Art Exhibition at the Left Wing Art Gallery in Chatham.
Krystin Waterworth
I grew up on a farm in a small town in Ontario. It taught me the reality of hard work and the necessity of paying my dues. Knowing the farm life was not for me I spent my time drawing, crafting and painting all hours of the night. From the time I was in junior kindergarten, artist was the only career on my list. As a teenager, I mentored with painter Harry Wilkinson for five years, learning the art of seeing. In 2003, I started at York University. Finding the Fine Art program to be on the more cerebral and theoretical side, I forged my own way to develop the practical learning side of things by starting Kryart Studio in the summer of 2004. Working the two simultaneously, I finished with an Honours BFA specializing in Visual Art in 2008."
Andrew Chisholm
Pursuing a life long interest in visual art, Andrew enrolled at Western University where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1999 and a Bachelor of Education in 2001. His art works focus on the recording of personal phenomena, symbolic speculation and an occasional social commentary. He specializes in painting, often using both oil and acrylic glazes.
John Koyounian
John Koyounian is a local London artist as well as a secondary school teacher. He has a B. Ed., a BA Hon. Visual Art from U.W.O and a diploma of Fine Arts from Fanshawe. John has shown throughout Ontario, locally and the United States. He also contributes to festivals and charitable events. You can find an overview of John's artwork at: www.johnkoyounian.com
Jamie Q
Jamie Q is a London-based artist who works in a variety of media including painting, drawing, zine-making, printmaking, and sculpture. They have shown their art and distributed their zines internationally, including notable group shows at Krets Gallery in Sweden, the Luggage Store Annex in San Francisco, Michael Gibson Gallery in London Ontario, and in solo exhibitions at Art Metropole in Toronto and Parentheses Gallery & Art Projects in Halifax. Jamie Q holds a BFA from the Alberta College of Art & Design (2002) and an MFA from Western University (2010). Their artwork is online at http://jamieq.net.
strong>James Kirkpatrick
James Kirkpatrick, born in London, ON in 1977, attended H.B. Beal Secondary School and received his BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2002. He has exhibited his work extensively throughout the US and Canada including shows in new York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Halifax, Toronto and Vancouver. In 2009 Kirkpatrick was featured in the group show Pulp Fiction, which traveled from Museum London to the Mocca in Toronto and St. Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax.
Also known for his participation in the early Canadian avant-garde hip-hop movement as Thesis Sahib, Kirkpatrick works in a variety of media including drawing, painting, zines, mask-making and experimental sound improvisation. In recent years his work has incorporated sculptural, kinetic and auditory elements, as he combines his 2D aesthetic with circuit-bent electronics. These sound sculptures are exhibited and intended to be played by gallery visitors in an attempt to encourage improvised collaboration similar to the freestyle nature in which Kirkpatrick creates in live performances.
Gareth Bush
After 6 years of acoustic songwriting, 2 years of recording and a lifetime of melodies - Gareth Bush's debut EP delivers a powerful punch of crunching riffs and soulful ballads. It represents everything Gareth has accomplished thus far, and most importantly, a sign of things to come. Since its release on Jan 29, 2013, Gareth's youtube covers, particularly his cover of "Scream & Shout" have been featured on television and radio stations internationally. He was also featured as "web celeb of the week" by Z100, the 2nd biggest pop radio station in the world. www.facebook.com/garethbushmusic
Brooklyn artist Payton Turner and her collaborator Brian Kaspr have traveled to London Ontario to wallpaper McIntosh Gallery with thousands of individually placed stickers. Both artists are collaboratively known as Flat Vernacular, a Brooklyn-based design company that specializes in original hand-drawn, and hand-printed wallpapers. During the next week, Turner, Kaspr and a handful of Western University students will be placing approximately 70 000 stickers on the walls of McIntosh Gallery as part of the upcoming exhibition: Secret Stash: Accumulation, Hoarding and the Love of Stuff, curated by Kirsty Robertson.
Secret Stash: Accumulation, Hoarding and the Love of Stuff, runs from February 28 to April 6, 2013. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, February 28 at 8:00 P.M.
For more information please contact Natalie Finkelstein, Communications and Outreach Coordinator, at nfinkel@uwo.ca
In October, 2012, 61 students registered in the second year art history course What (Not) to Wear: Fashion, Textiles and Art, learned how to knit. Helped by their professor, their teaching assistant and three volunteers from the community, students were taught basic knitting stitches, which, over the course of the semester, they turned into colourful squares, some tiny, some huge. In the early winter, knitters in London and beyond were asked to join in. Squares have been donated from near and far, and will come together in bright cozies covering the trees outside McIntosh Gallery for the duration of the Secret Stash: Accumulation, Hoarding and the Love of Stuff exhibition (February 28-April 6, 2013). The intervention at McIntosh is an act of yarn bombing or guerrilla knitting, inserting knitting into an unexpected space in order to draw attention to what might otherwise be overlooked or walked by, and to provide a colourful entrance to the exhibition.
If you would like to participate, squares approximately 12x12 inches (although any size is fine) can be dropped off or mailed to:
Yarn Bomb McIntosh Gallery
c/o Department of Visual Arts
Western University
London, Ontario, N6A 3B7
(Until February 20, 2013)
For more information, contact Natalie Finkelstein, Communications and Outreach Coordinator, at nfinkel@uwo.ca or 519-661-3181.
