{"id":57088,"date":"2019-03-27T10:23:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=57088"},"modified":"2019-03-27T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T20:30:16","slug":"new-art-exhibition-product-of-student-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/03\/new-art-exhibition-product-of-student-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"New art exhibition the product of student collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While they&#8217;re known for correcting errors, erasures are signs of progress and an expanding imagination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students in Brock\u2019s Visual Arts (VISA) and Studies in Arts and Culture (STAC) programs will explore this theme in a new collaborative art exhibit on view from Tuesday, April 2 to Saturday, April 27.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exhibit, Erasures, will be open to the public in the VISA Art Gallery and Student Exhibition Space at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts (MIWSFPA) in downtown St. Catharines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An opening reception will be held in the gallery on Thursday, April 4, from 5 to 8 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Led by Shawn Serfas, Associate Professor of Visual Arts, and Catherine Parayre, Director of the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, students enrolled in VISA 4P03\/4P04 and STAC 3P01 worked together to create a show that features paintings and text that thematize different types of erasures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The work ranges from the exploration of scenes lacking important elements, simplified adaptations of existing artworks and abstracted forms of figurative objects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Short written statements commenting on well-known recent artworks accompany the paintings to provide further context.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Serfas and Parayre frequently bring students from different backgrounds together to collaborate on creative endeavours. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt has been an enriching learning experience, for both the students and the instructors,\u201d Parayre said of working with the students on Erasures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exhibition evokes transformations and process, an important theme in both Serfas\u2019 senior studio courses and Parayre\u2019s Media Transformations in the Creative Arts course.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether in visual expressions or in texts, Parayre added, erasures are invitations to scrutinize, read and interpret, which is exactly what the public is encouraged to do at the upcoming exhibition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Erasures runs from April 2 to 27 in the VISA Art Gallery and Student Exhibition Space at the MIWSFPA in downtown St. Catharines. The gallery is open to the public Tuesdays to Saturdays from 1 to 5 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While they&#8217;re known for correcting errors, erasures are signs of progress and an expanding imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":57089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,37,1,4],"tags":[5187,187,480,7736,46,2518,5079],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57088"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57100,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57088\/revisions\/57100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}