Current Exhibitions
FALL 2024
The artLAB gallery is closed for installation. We will reopen on Thursday, October 10 for over and over and over and curated by Katie Lawson and Test Site organized by the CSC!
over and over and over and
Curated by Katie Lawson
Tia Bates , Masha Kouznetsova, Danielle Petti
Exhibition: October 10 – 31, 2024
Reception: Thursday, October 10, 4-6PM
artLAB Gallery
To work with residue, refuse, salvage, and waste necessitates moving through the world with openness and curiosity, slowly gathering materials over time and through various means. This is not mere 'resourcefulness' but a major principle in terms of how Tia Bates, Danielle Petti, and Masha Kouznetsova work and understand value in sourcing the material and immaterial aspects of their artwork. In the exhibition over and over and over and each artist has cultivated their own approach to the transformation of found materials, a further translation of their embodied experiences. The distortion or alteration of materials occurs through pulping, setting, melting, illuminating, recording, and transmitting with paper, water, cement, beeswax, light, soundwaves, acetate and metals. A concept, a rock, an image or a sound is revisited time and time again, revealing itself bit by bit. Matter is never fixed, but ever changing through multiple iterations of a singular installation, and time is embraced as medium. Over and over and over and over and over and…
Test Site
Organized by the Centre for Sustainable Curating.
Exhibition: October 10 – 31, 2024
Reception: Thursday, October 10, 4-6PM
CSC GIVEAWAY: October 21 at 11am until October 22 at 5pm
Cohen Commons
London, Ontario has long been known as a test site, a place where new products are introduced to measure their success across various socioeconomic demographics and markets. This exhibition reimagines that consumption-based label, focusing instead on the Centre for Sustainable Curating's efforts in 'testing' (defined as a critical examination, observation, or evaluation) new possibilities and futures. Bringing together past and ongoing experiments by the CSC—such as those involving light and shadow, visible mending, compostable signage, collaborative ownership, solar archiving, and collecting as redistribution—Test Site asks: What traces and marks are left behind by an exhibition?
Department of Visual Arts:
MEET AND GREET!
Thursday, October 10 from 3-4PM
Organized by Cheyne Ferguson, artLAB Gallery Intern
artLAB Gallery
Have you ever wanted to opportunity to get to know faculty and staff better? Then join us for this special event--there will be coffee to sip, nametags to wear, and great conversations to be had between students, faculty and staff. All are welcome, light refreshments will be served.
