McIntosh Gallery Exhibitions Nominated for Two GOG Awards
McIntosh Gallery is proud to announce nominations in the 49th Annual Galeries Ontario Galleries (GOG) Awards in two categories: Innovation in a Collections Based Exhibition, and Key Partnership.
Holding Patterns, a pair of exhibitions curated by Rachel Deiterding have been nominated in the ‘Innovation in a Collections Based Exhibition’ category. Holding Patterns: the short view marked the beginning of a comprehensive inquiry into the McIntosh Gallery collection; starting with an exhibition of recent acquisitions which emphasize emerging conversations around collecting. Holding Patterns: the long view examined the McIntosh Gallery collection through the lens of collection data. Tracing the pathways laid by the data, the selected artworks presented a proportionally accurate overview of the 4,350 artworks in the gallery’s care.
Installation views of Holding Patterns:the short view (left), and Holding Patterns:the long view (right).
Atmospheric Shifts, and *(s)twerH, both curated by Helen Gregory in partnership with Greg Kopp, Director of The Canadian Severe Storms Laboratory (CSSL), Western University, has been nominated in the ‘Key Partnership’ category.
Atmospheric Shifts examined human complicity in a planetary change—an Atmospheric Shift—which has unfolded over millennia. This current environmental moment was considered through new works created for the exhibition by artists Wally Dion, Lisa Hirmer, and David Spriggs, material culture derived from research conducted by the CSSL (the Northern Tornadoes Project, the Northern Hail Project, and the Northern Mesonet Project) in Western University’s Faculty of Engineering, and works from McIntosh Gallery’s collection, as well as public, corporate, and individual collections.
Installation view of Atmospheric Shifts with close-up of 3d printed hailstones (left), and Wally Dion's wind dancers performed at Western's WindEEE dome.
*(s)twerH was a solo exhibition and artist residency with artist Andrew Maize, where Maize worked in the gallery to further develop a body of work that considered the fundamental nature of indeterminacy, exploring potential common ground between scientific and artistic research inspired by the work of climate scientists.
Installation views of *(s)twerH: members of CSSL create their own Fan Dancers with artist Andrew Maize (left), close-up of a Fan Dancer (right).
McIntosh Gallery would like to extend congratulations to all other nominees, and we look forward to the awards gala in November. See the full shortlist here.
