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March 10 to 23, 2007 Rubber Ducks & Smoking Guns |
Opening Friday March 9 8 to 10pm Noon hour talks Tues March 13 at 12:05 Thurs March 15 at 12:35 Roundtable Discussion Tues March 20 at 11:30am On Neo-Pop tendencies in contemporary art |
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Participating artists: Vanessa Andres, Vivienne Bessette, Kent Brun, Michelle Cheng, Cameron Duncan, Shilo Jones, Reta Koropatnick, Tommy Lee, Yolanda Lee, Ian Robert MacTilstra, Sarita Mann, Sarah Mansour, Cameron Kenneth Neil, Dan Newbrook, Miriam Ng, Erika Petro, Lily Poon, Laurel Richardson, Deborah Roukema, Julie Voeuk Rubber Ducks and Smoking Guns is an exhibition of recent work by visual art students in Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts. The student show is a yearly event organized, curated and mounted primarily by the students. The title references their occasionally irreverent aesthetic meander through a panoply of genres, styles and strategies, and their source material is drawn from the full gamut of contemporary culture, from the sublime to the pathetic. For these emerging artists this exhibition is an opportunity to experience the shifts in meaning and appearance that occur as an artwork moves from the studio to a gallery presentation. The artwork's ability to transmit the research, references, experimentation, thoughts, decisions, and impulses that have gone into its making are here examined through the public realm. A student-led roundtable discussion on Neo-Pop tendencies in contemporary art will be held on Tuesday, March 20 at 11:30am, at the SFU Gallery. Rubber Ducks and Smoking Guns is a collaborative project between the students and faculty of the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts and the Simon Fraser University Gallery. Special thanks to Vivienne Bessette, Shilo Jones, Erika Petro, and Deborah Roukema for their work on the exhibition. |
Yolanda Lee, Untitled, 2005, acrylic, ink, spraypaint on wooden board (top) Shilo Jones, pink vase, 2007, mixed media (bottom) 
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