Zeke Moores

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.

 

 

January 12–March 3, 2012
Opening reception: Thursday, January 12 from 5:00–8:00 pm

Gallery One
Steven Laurie, Zeke Moores, Brandon Vickerd
 

Clutch

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

http://uwag.uwaterloo.ca/three-2

 

Tis the Season!

MOVEMBER

Your cash for my stache.

I'm trying to raise a thousand dollars for prostate cancer. 

To donate and see the progress of my mustache go to: http://mobro.co/mozeke

 

Lisa Lipton: Rock 'n' it !

The School of Visual Arts, at the University of Windsor is offering a one-month spring residency program to Emerging Artists. This residency is an opportunity for artists to cultivate new ideas through research and production, access to the school’s resources and facilities, and explore arts and cultural in the border region of Windsor/ Detroit.

2012 Program: May 1-31.

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2012.  

 

CANADIANART

 Sobey Art Award 2011: Excitement, and an Exhibition

ART GALLERY OF NOVA SCOTIA, HALIFAX SEP 17 2011 TO JAN 8 2012

by BRYNE MCLAUGHLIN

From left: 2011 Sobey Art Award emcee Adam Gopnik; artist Charles Stankievech; artist Sarah Anne Johnson; artist Manon de Pauw; artist Zeke Moores; artist Daniel Young; artist Christian Giroux; and Sobey Art Foundation director Rob Sobey / photo Steve Farmer

Take a look!

http://www.canadianart.ca/online/features/2011/10/20/sobey_award_2011/

 Rubbish Rubbish 

 The art in Rubbish Rubbish attempts to dispel the banality of boxes by aestheticizing them. This tendency would appear to reverse the tactics of the Minimalist artist Donald Judd, whose box-constructed sculptures of the 1960s were insistently non-representational. In contrast, the contributing artists of Rubbish Rubbish wittily engage in dead-pan replication and provocative trompe-l'oeil. Unlike Judd's, their "boxes" invite an amused double take on the part of viewers. Participants in the exhibition are Chris Foster, Zeke Moores, Roula Partheniou, Lorenzo Pepito and Kate Walchuk...

Stefan Hancherow

Curator

http://msvuart.ca/rubbishrubbish/index.html

 

 

Check it out! 

The new Fall 2011 issue of Visual Arts News. I'm featured in an article, page 17. 

October 13, 2011—HALIFAX, NS—The Curatorial Panel for the 2011 Sobey Art Award announced today that Young & Giroux representing Ontario are the recipients of the $50,000 top prize. The announcement was made during a Gala event held at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax. The Award was presented to the winning artists by the 2010 Sobey winner, Daniel Barrow and award-winning author and famed New Yorker contributor and art critic Adam Gopnik.

On a personal note I would like to congratulate Christian & Daniel. Had a great time getting to know them both over the course of the Sobey. They are a blast to hang out with, absolutely hilarious and not bad dancers either. Congrats, you guys deserve it! 

 

This is what's up!  The next studio project, I have started casting and it's looking good...