Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Rubber Ducks & Smoking Guns: Second and Third Year SFU Visual Art Student Exhibition

March 10 – 23, 2007
SFU Gallery

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 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 occurs 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.

Rubber Ducks and Smoking Guns is a collaborative project between the students and faculty of the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts and the SFU Gallery. Special thanks to Vivienne Bessette, Shilo Jones, Erika Petro, and Deborah Roukema for their work on the exhibition.

Events

Opening Reception
Friday, March 9, 2007 8-10pm

Lunchtime Talks
Tuesday, March 13, 12:05pm
Thursday, March 15, 12:35pm

Roundtable Discussion: On Neo-Pop tendencies in contemporary art
Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 11:30am
SFU Gallery, Burnaby