Articles tagged with: Rodman Hall

• Imagined Urban Gardens opens at Rodman Hall Art Centre

  Friday, January 31, 2020 | By dvivian

  

  Imagined Urban Gardens: Student Exhibition
  Jan. 30 – March 1, 2020

  

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  Rodman Hall Art Centre
  109 St. Paul Crescent, St. Catharines, ON

  Responding to the explorations of urban architecture and its materials in Teresa Carlesimo and Michael DiRisio: more light than heat (on exhibition at the Rodman Hall Art Centre), Imagined Urban Gardens also reflects on today’s global warming and how we could live in the future.

  We dream of green spaces and pleasantly warm cities.
  Students in Visual Arts and Studies in Arts and Culture envision in text and image what could be in a livable world.

  See the YourTV Niagara video spotlight about this exhibition, featuring interviews with the artists and curators.

  Read the article by Bart Gazzola in The Sound STC.

  Tags: Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, Imagined Urban Gardens, RHAC, Rodman Hall, Visual Arts
  Categories: Announcements, Current Students, Events, Faculty & Instructors, Media Releases, News, Uncategorised

• Colour Constructs at Rodman Hall/Constructions en couleurs à Rodman Hall

  Monday, November 20, 2017 | By dtemprile

  

  Pictured is a view of the exhibition Material Girls at Rodman Hall Art Centre. (source: RHAC)

  In fall 2017, Rodman Hall invites visitors to experience the exhibition Material Girls, which brings together Canadian and international female artists from across artistic disciplines and cultural backgrounds. Giving particular attention to the colourfulness and jubilance of this exhibition, in Colour Constructs, students in Visual Arts, Studies in Arts and Culture, and French Studies explore the materiality of colours in their own diverse ways. Student works are complemented by graffiti art by Niagara-based artist Mat Vizbulis, a classroom guest during the semester. Curators Catherine Parayre and Shawn Serfas. /

  A l’automne 2017, Rodman Hall invite ses visiteurs à découvrir l’exposition Material Girls, qui regroupe des artistes femmes du Canada et d’ailleurs, dont les pratiques artistiques et l’environnement culturel diffèrent. En s’inspirant des couleurs et de la gaieté de cette exposition, des étudiants-e-s en Arts visuels, Arts et cultures et Etudes en français explorent dans Constructions en couleurs la matérialité des coloris par le biais d’approches variées. Les graffitis de l’artiste Mat Vizbulis, établi dans la région du Niagara, complètent les oeuvres des étudiant-e-s. Commissaires: Catherine Parayre et Shawn Serfas.

  Article from the Brock News: Bilingual exhibition to shed light on Material Girls
  TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2017 | by Darien Temprile

  A new Rodman Hall exhibition aims to help visitors experience Material Girls in a new way.

  

  Geo, a piece created by third-year Visual Arts student Lilliana Pagliaro, will be featured in the Colour Constructs/Constructions en couleurs exhibition opening at Rodman Hall Thursday, Nov. 30.

  Colour Constructs/Constructions en couleurs, opening at the downtown St. Catharines art centre Thursday, Nov. 30, features works by students in Brock’s Visual Arts (VISA), Studies in Arts and Culture (STAC) and French Studies (FREN) programs.

  The exhibition, curated by Brock Professors Catherine Parayre and Shawn Serfas, initiates a sophisticated dialogue with Material Girls, an ongoing exhibition that opened at Rodman Hall Sept. 14.

  Material Girls is a large-scale group exhibition of work by Canadian and international emerging, mid-career and senior female artists from different artistic disciplines and cultures. Curated by a team from the Dunlop Art Gallery, a unit of the Regina Public Library, it explores material process and notions of excess as they relate to the feminized body, gendered space and capitalist desire.

  For Colour Constructs, students reacted to words, colours and visuals directly related to Material Girls.

  STAC students contributed nine texts based on words and expressions found in the curatorial statement of Material Girls; FREN students provided eight written fragments in French, describing colours from Material Girls; and VISA students, in their own paintings, reference the vividness of artwork presented in Material Girls.

  In addition to the work of students, the exhibition will include a new large commission by local graffiti artist Mat Vizbulis, who describes his work as ‘genre graffuturism.’

  “As the images unfold in layers, we understand that it is truly something unexplainable,” he said. “We are then daring to define things.”

  Earlier this year, Vizbulis led Brock students in experiential learning about graffiti and its role in both high art and popular culture.

  The opening reception of Colour Constructs/Constructions en couleurs takes place Thursday, Nov. 30 at 5 p.m. at Rodman Hall Art Centre, 109 St. Paul Cres. The exhibition will continue until March 4.

  Material Girls continues at Rodman Hall until Dec. 30.

  Admission to Rodman Hall Art Centre is free, although donations are accepted. For more information in French or English, visit ExperienceBU.

  UPDATE:

  French student Amandine Faivre, right,
  speaks about her poetry with French Professor Renee-Claude Breitenstein at the opening of Colour Constructs Thursday, Nov. 30. Curated by Professors Catherine Parayre and Shawn Serfas, the exhibition is a collaboration by students in Studies in Arts and Culture, Visual Arts and French Studies. Student artwork is complemented by work by local graffiti artist Mat Vizbulis, who worked with STAC and VISA students over the course of the semester. Colour Constructs is on at Rodman Hall Art Centre until March 4.
  Exhibition: Thursday Nov. 30, 2017 – Sunday Mar. 4, 2018

  Opening Reception: Thursday Nov. 30, 2017 at 5:00pm

  GALLERY HOURS:
  Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday: 10 am to 5 pm
  Thursday: 10 am to 9 pm
  Saturday & Sunday: 12 pm to 5 pm
  Closed Mondays, statutory and University holidays

  Free community event however donations accepted (suggested $5).

  Tags: Brock University, Catherine Parayre, downtown St. Catharines, Exhibition, French, French Studies, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Material Girls, MIWSFPA, Rodman Hall, Rodman Hall Art Centre, Shawn Serfas, STAC, visa, Visual Arts
  Categories: Current Students, Events

• A Sublime Vernacular – The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug

  Thursday, February 09, 2017 | By Brock University

  

  A Sublime Vernacular
  The Landscape Paintings of Levine Flexhaug

  January 28 to March 12, 2017

  Curated by Nancy Tousley and Peter White
  Organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Grande Prairie, Alberta

  Opening Reception: Saturday, February 11, 3 pm
  HOT TALK: Saturday, February 11, 2 pm. Wayne Morgan and Sharilyn J. Ingram, “Making Art for the Market: Flexhaug in Context”

  Rodman Hall Art Centre, 109 St. Paul Crescent, St. Catharines
  Admission to the gallery is by donation ($5 suggested)

  A Sublime Vernacular offers the first overview of the extraordinary career of Levine Flexhaug (1918-1974), an itinerant painter who sold thousands of variations of essentially the same landscape painting in national parks, resorts, department stores and bars across western Canada from the late 1930s through the early 1960s. Whatever its variation, a Flexhaug image represents a Western icon, a silent unspoiled Eden that encapsulates the conventions of sublime landscape painting in a kind of painter’s shorthand, and offers a point of entry for consideration of significant critical questions ranging from issues of taste, originality versus repetition in art, the appeal of landscape and its iconography.

  Tags: Hot talk, Rodman Hall
  Categories: Events

• Abstract/Abstracted: “This is not a tree”

  Wednesday, February 01, 2017 | By Brock University

  

  December 3, 2016 – February 12, 2017
  Opening reception: Thursday, December 8, 2016 from 6 – 7:30 pm
  Gallery hours: Tuesday – Friday from 10 am – 5 pm; Saturday & Sunday from 12 pm – 5 pm; closed Mondays.
  Rodman Hall Art Centre, 109 St. Paul Crescent, St. Catharines, ON L2S 1M3

  Reflecting on the exhibition A Painter’s Country: Canadian Landscape Paintings Selected from the Permanent Collection (curator: Stuart Reid) presented at Rodman Hall during the summer of 2016, Abstract/Abstracted: ‘This is not a tree’ presents works by Karel Appel, Frederick S. Coburn, Hans Hartung, Kazuo Nakamura, Carl Schaeffer, and Tony Tascona. Put together, these artworks, also from Rodman Hall’s permanent collection, explore a different problematic. How much abstraction is there in representation? In turn, to what extent is an abstract work abstract? Abstract/Abstracted highlights, but also questions the contrasts between abstract and figurative art. 
Brock University students in “Intermediate Painting” respond with selected artworks, while students in “Interpretive and Critical Writing in the Arts” provide critical texts that explore these questions.

  The catalogue will appear in the 2017 issue of ti< A Journal of Text-and-Image Criticism/Creation… Un journal de critique/création texte-et-image. https://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/ti

  Curators: Catherine Parayre and Shawn Serfas

  Free community event

  Featured image: Emily Donaldson

   

  Tags: Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Rodman Hall, Visual Arts
  Categories: Events

• Brock appoints new director/curator of Rodman Hall Art Centre

  Wednesday, September 28, 2011 | By Brock University

  

  Stuart Reid

  An internationally recognized art curator and writer with extensive experience in arts administration in Canada is the new director/curator of Brock University’s Rodman Hall Art Centre.

  After two and a half years as executive director of the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Sask., Stuart Reid will assume his new position in January 2012.

  “We are pleased to have someone of Stuart’s calibre join our team at Rodman Hall,” says Douglas Kneale, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Brock University. “His experience and leadership will help to foster our region’s vibrant arts scene, and his expertise will be an asset in the development of opportunities for Brock to engage our communities.”

  “The post of director/curator at Rodman Hall Art Centre holds a lot of interest for me,” says Reid in a press released issued by the MacKenzie Art Gallery. “I’m eager to continue my curatorial work and writing. I’ll also have teaching opportunities at Brock University. This move also takes me back to Ontario and my family.”

  Reid is a Past President of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries. He has served as director and curator of the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery in Owen Sound, Ont., is an alumnus of the J. Paul Getty Trust’s Museum Leadership Institute at the University of California at Berkeley, and is also an elected member of the International Curators of Contemporary Art Network based in Luxembourg.

  Born in Dundee, Scotland, Reid immigrated to Canada in 1967. He studied art and art history at York University (BFA 1986) in Toronto. From 1990 to 1992, Reid was an associate curator at The Craft Gallery of the Ontario Crafts Council in Toronto. From 1992 to 2001, he was curator at the Art Gallery of Mississauga. In 1997, he was a guest of the British Council on a study tour of contemporary art in Northern Ireland.

  Brock University assumed ownership of Rodman Hall, the Walker Botanical Gardens and the Centre’s permanent art collection in 2003.

  Rodman Hall Art Centre is committed to excellence in visual arts programming and education, providing services and resources to students and faculty of Brock University and the Niagara region. Nationally, the Centre supports the development of artists and cultural workers in southern Ontario through the dissemination of contemporary art.

  Tags: Rodman Hall, Rodman Hall Art Centre, Stuart Reid
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