Zeke Moores

The Rooms Welcomes the Royal Academy of Arts

The Rooms is pleased to welcome the 132nd Annual General Assembly of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA), from May 24 through 27.

The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts is one of Canada’s most enduring cultural institutions. Established in 1880, today’s academy is composed of over 700 established professionals working across Canada in 20 visual arts disciplines; from painting and sculpture to architecture, design, fine craft, photography and filmmaking.

To celebrate the Annual General Assembly in St. John’s, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery will highlight RCA members represented within its permanent collection. Inner Works: Selections from the People’s Collection includes works by David Blackwood, Ron Bolt, Mike Massie, Christopher Pratt, Mary Pratt, Helen Shepherd and other notable artists associated with the province. In addition, the exhibition will feature a new sculpture by Newfoundland-born Zeke Moores, recently acquired by the generous support of the RCA Trust Fund.

The RCA Trust Fund was established in 1973, with the mandate to receive funds to assist in the encouragement and cultivation of the highest standards in the creative arts in Canada. It assists regional public galleries in adding to their permanent collections by providing grants for the purchase of works by living Canadian artists.

In celebration of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts coming to the province, and in conjunction with the EVA Awards, a reception will be held at The Rooms, (Friday, May 25) at 7:30 p.m., media are welcome to attend, as is the general public.

 

I'm pleased to announce my up coming solo exhibiton at Diaz Contemporary in Toronto. Hope all my Toronto friends can make it out for the opening. See you there!

100 Niagara St, Toronto, ON.

Opening: Thursday, 31 May, 6-8pm. 

Exhibiton: 31 May- 7 July 

Broken City Lab on the Ontario long list!

Congratulations to Windsor's BCL and all my friends on the Atlantic List (Lisa Lipton, Eleanor King, Stephen Kelly and Graeme Patterson). It looks like it's going to be a good race this year. Make sure to check out this crowd.

Go, go, go..

Busy in the foundry, gearing up for a summer of production.

Check Out the latest Issue of Rampike Magazine, featuring art work By Lucy Howe and yours truely.

Rampike magazine, in print since 1979, featuring stellar international writers, critics and artists from around the world with a strong focus on Canadian expression. The journal has received substantial support from public granting bodies and has published interviews and works by internationally acclaimed figures including Kathy Acker, Paul Auster, Russell Banks, Charles Bernstein, Nicole Brossard, William Burroughs, Joseph Beuys, Claude Beausoleil, Sandra Birdsell, bill bissett, George Bowering, Marilyn Bowering, Chris Burden, Catherine Bush, Janet Cardiff, George Eliot Clark, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Grand Chief Matthew Coon-Come, Frank Davey, Jacques Derrida, Chris Dewdney, Umberto Eco, Martin Esslin, Raymond Federman, James Gray, Tomson Highway, Linda Hutcheon, Susan Holbrook, Thomas King, Al Purdy, Julia Kristeva, Robert Kroetsch, Robert Lepage, Alistair MacLeod, Eli Mandel, Sheila Murphy, Louise Nevelson, Karen MacCormack, Richard Martel, Marshall McLuhan, Steve McCaffery, Norval Morriseau, bp Nichol, Daphne Odjig, Dennis Oppenheim, Al Purdy, Josef Skvorecky, Jayce Salloum, Rosemary Sullivan, Phillipe Sollers, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Huanani-Kay Trask, Richard Van Camp, and David Foster Wallace, to name only a few. Rampike has been praised by critics such as Wayne Grady (Globe & Mail), and Marjorie Perloff (Stanford U) and is distributed internationally.

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Beer Boxes, Bronze, 2012. Photo credit: lucy Howe

Beer Boxes

It is through this transformation that an innate and elegant beauty is translated and revealed, highlighting the delicate features and individuality of each box form. The box references its mode of production, industry, labour and the social/ political complexities involved in its creation. Yet the finished form itself sits empty, full of potential, displaying the scars, wrinkles and wounds received through its short existence. Capturing a moment in time, exposing the rough and ragged glory of the object. The multiple attests to the boxes’ pervasiveness; its empty form is the antithesis of our consumption; its beauty, our desire for its contents... 

The FILTH issue has arrived!

That’s right, the Windsor ReView Spring 2012 Special Filth issue has arrived. Subscribers and contributors, expect your copies to arrive in the mail shortly! For everyone else, contact us at uwrevu@uwindsor.ca for information on subscribing or purchasing individual copies.

This issue features our complete re-design (let us know what you think)! We’re now a stylish 8×8 magazine, still with the same great prose, poetry, and full colour art features. This issue includes art from Zeke Moores, Swintak, Andrew Wright and Marcy Boles.

We also have writing from new and established writers from Canada and the United States, including David Zieroth, Henry Beissel, Bruce Meyer, Emily Schultz, Hollie Adams, April Bulmer and more! Edited by poet and comedian John Wing Jr., this issue is truly filthy.

 

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CLUTCH

Opens January 12th 5:00-8:00 pm. That's tomorrow night, see you there!

Gallery One
Steven Laurie, Zeke Moores, Brandon Vickerd
Clutch

Clutch bands Steven Laurie, Zeke Moores and Brandon Vickered together as an artist-pit crew with the gallery as their ersatz garage. Using industrial fabrication, bronze casting and kitbashing, each artist's sculptures reflect on aspects of North American muscle car culture, addressing both its enduring appeal as a blue-collar status symbol while eliciting the negative socio-economic and environmental impacts associated with commuter culture. 

 

Steven Laurie completed his MFA at the University of Western Ontario and graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design with honours. He has exhibited his work in Canada and the United States, and is the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. The artists lives and works in Toronto. www.stevenlaurie.com

Zeke Moores received his MFA from the University of Windsor and his BFA from the Nova Scotia School of Art and Design. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, and has received numerous grants and awards and was shortlisted for the 2011 Sobey Art Award. He teaches at the University of Windsro and lives in Windsor. www.zekemoores.typepad.com

Brandon Vickerd received his MFA from the University of Victoria and his BFA from the Nova Scotia School of Art and Design. He has exhibited across Canada and internationally, and has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. He is a Professor of Visual Arts at York University and lives in Toronto. Brandon Vickerd is represented by Art Mur, Montreal.www.brandonvickerd.com

Gallery Two
Lauren Hall
With Crystal Column and Clear Shrines of Pearl

With Crystal Column and Clear Shrines of Pearl continues Lauren Hall's penchant for transforming common materials such as polystyrene, cellophane, coloured sand and glycerine into unexpected sculptural compositions. Referencing topographic extremes ranging from remote arctic landscapes to sunny tropical beaches, for this exhibition the artist is developing a cave-like installation in response to the dimensions of the gallery space. 

The artist wishes to acknowledge the generous support of the Toronto Arts Council.

Lauren Hall received her BA in Fine Arts from the University of Waterloo. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, and is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. Reviews of her work have appeared in Canadian Art Online, Toronto Star, C Magazine and The Globe & Mail. The artists lives in Toronto. Lauren Hall is represented by Peak Gallery, Toronto. www.lauren-hall.com

Please join us for these thought-provoking exhibitions.
The artists will be present at the opening reception.

UWAG

 Hours

Tuesday-SUniversity of Waterloo Art Gallery

East Campus Hall | ECH 1239
519.888.4567 ext. 33575

Saturday 12:00-5:00 pm
or by appointment

Contact
Ivan Jurakic, Director / Curator
519.888.4567 ext. 36741
ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca
uwag.uwaterloo.ca

Images (from left to right): Zeke Moores, SUV (detail), 2008. Lauren Hall, Clear Shrines of Pearl (detail), 2011. Images courtesy of the artists.