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ELEGY FOR SUGAR GROVE
Darren Wershler-Henry
6 November 1997 - 20 December 1997
Opening Reception 6 November 1997 8pm
In the Brochure: Elegy for Sugar Grove Darren Wershler-Henry contributes the first installment of visual poetry with his piece Elegy for Sugar Grove.
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ARGUMENT #3, RIVERS OF WHITE, SPIDERSENSE #1
Tom Bendtsen
6 November 1997 - 20 December 1997
Opening Reception 6 November 1997 8pm
Project Room: Argument #3, Rivers of White Spidersense #1 A series of six episodes in which a visual artist and a concrete poet engage in spatial activities, taking possession of the associative texts and presentation space of the project room. A series that serves as a touch point between two seemingly separate disciplines, sometimes creating […]
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THE INVISIBLE INSURRECTION OF A MILLION MINDS
Ross Sinclair
6 November 1997 - 20 December 1997
Opening Reception 6 November 1997 8pm
Main Gallery and Windows: The Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds Musings on Real Life and Ross Sinclair Artist Ross Sinclair wrote an engaging essay entitled, Scotland – A Brief and Fractured Introduction to the History of the Period 1983-2083,. In this text, Glasgow-born Sinclair weaves a tale of a semi-fictitious Scotland of the future […]
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JOHN WILKINSON
John Wilkinson
Curated by Peter Hill
5 November 1997 - 17 November 1997
Opening Reception 5 November 1997 8pm
Paintings
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GESTATING FUTURE
Alfred Engerer
11 September 1997 - 1 November 1997
Opening Reception 11 September 1997 8pm
Windows: Gestating Future Alfred Engerer‘s Gestating Future references the subconscious acquisition of words, symbols, language etc., and the consequential process of understanding. Within the process of agreement and acceptance of their values through communication resides either the mindful contemplation and unquestioning docility or an accidental absorption that is time evolves to mindless acquisition or the […]
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DESTABILIZED LANDCAPES
Nora Noranjo-Morse
Curated by Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak
11 September 1997 - 1 November 1997
Opening Reception 11 September 1997 8pm
Destabilized Landscape: Post-Colonial Space and Unreal Estate. Concurrently presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario. What Was Taken… And What We Sell Nora Naranjo-Morse presents her video installation What was Taken… And What We Sell in the Mercer Union Project Room as part of The Destabilized Landscape: Post-Colonial Space and Unreal Estate Exhibition concurrently presented […]
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KARATE GIRLS AND PROTEGES
Eliza Griffiths
11 September 1997 - 1 November 1997
Opening Reception 11 September 1997 8pm
Eliza Griffiths Karate Girls and Proteges In popular culture today, the characters of teenage girls are kicking ass like never before. Vampire slayers, tankgirls, batgirls, teenage witches – these over-the-top roles play to a contemporary audience hungry for action while also serving as an articulation of individual identity. Characterized by self-reliance and personal exploration, these […]
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THE NIGHT I MET MY FARTHEST BROTHER
Anna Lefsrud
26 June 1997 - 2 August 1997
Opening Reception 26 June 1997 8pm
Window: The Night I Met My Farthest Brother Mercer Union is pleased to present The Night I Met My Farthest Brother by Toronto-based artist Anna Lefsrud. Since graduating from York University with her BFA Honours Degree, Lefsrud has exhibited in a number of collective exhibition including the 1994 and 1996 Duke-U-Menta projects and in previous […]
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PARAGONS
Heather Cameron
26 June 1997 - 2 August 1997
Opening Reception 26 June 1997 8pm
Project Room: Paragons The word ‘text’ comes originally from textile: it means the interweaving of different threads,” says Heather Cameron. In her piece Paragons from her show Consuming Passion. Cameron’s use of textiles, with its gentle irony and humour, critiques culturally dominant narratives of the virgin/whore dichotomy by conflating them. The consequence is a delightful […]
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PSEUDONYMS AND SIMILARITIES
Adrienne Trent, Jennifer McMackon, Richard Storms, Alan Belcher, Michael Balser and Sharon Switzer
Curated by Natalie Olanick
26 June 1997 - 2 August 1997
Opening Reception 26 June 1997 8pm
Main Gallery: Pseudonyms and Similarities The exhibition explores the potential of fantasy to undermine fixed viewing and speaking positions, the possibility of changing places as a means of destabilizing subjectivity. “Chuck the map and wander, tourism fails us…the greener grass is but a show-lawn. This fertile astroturf remains unmarked, this home-grown is neighborhood not. Maybe, […]
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SPRAWL
Christine Burchnall, Sara Hartland-Rowe, Paul Lamothe, Naomi and Shyrl London, machyderm: Dermot Wilson and Christopher McNamara, Greg Staats, and Jeffrey Thomas
Curated by Bev Koski, Sylvie Fortin, and David Merrit
15 May 1997 - 12 June 1997
Opening Reception 15 May 1997 8pm
Sprawl: An Experiment The programming committee of Mercer Union invited four guest curators from Diverse backgrounds, nationalities and experiences to coordinate “Sprawl”, and exhibition and symposium. From a wide Ontario spread, the co-curators Sylvie Fortin, R. William Hill, David Merritt and Daniella Sneppova are committed to exploring the embodied and imaginary relationships which lie between […]
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MY CRUEL APRIL
R.M. Vaughan
3 April 1997 - 10 May 1997
Opening Reception 4 April 1997 8pm
Windows: My Cruel April The Mercer Union window is an exhibition space with a natural duality. Those who pass by the window, perhaps not knowing the context of the work, are still afforded visual interaction, while those viewers inside are offered a more intimate experience. R.M. Vaughan’s installation/performance My Cruel Aprilis an inversion of the […]
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THANK YOU, COME IN…THANK YOU, COME AGAIN
Su-An Yun
3 April 1997 - 10 May 1997
Opening Reception 3 April 1997 8pm
Main Gallery: Encounters of the Other Kind In Su-An Yun‘s Thank you, come in… Thank you, come again! a grid of over 100 black and white photographs lines a gallery wall. Obscure and recessed within stark white borders, the images appear to be gridded twice, even three times within their outer frame. On closer viewing, […]
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GHOSTWRITER #5
Michelle Gay, Janice Kerbel, Evelyn Von Michalofski
3 April 1997 - 10 May 1997
Opening Reception 3 April 1997 8pm
Ghostwriter 5 Curated by Millie Chen Mercer Union is pleased to present Ghostwriter 5, the last in a series of five project room exhibitions which posit art making and writing as interlocked processes. Each exhibition is a collaborative project formed by the fusion of the Ghostwriter/curator and the artist(s) he/she chooses to work with. Each […]
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ALAN FLINT
Alan Flint
20 February 1997 - 29 March 1997
Opening Reception 20 February 1997 8pm
Window: Alan Flint Mercer Union is pleased to present a text piece by Hamilton artist Alan Flint in the window. The Mercer Union window space is an exhibition site with a natural duality. Viewers pass by the window, perhaps not knowing the context of the work, but are still afforded the visual interaction. Those who […]
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GHOSTWRITER #4
Charlynn Bedroux & Anne Goldin, Brent Cehan, John McLachlin
Curated by Andy Fabo
20 February 1997 - 29 March 1997
Opening Reception 20 February 1997 8pm
A Project Room Series: Ghostwriter #4 Mercer Union is pleased to present Ghostwriter #4, the fourth in a series of five project room exhibitions which posit art making and writing as interlocked processes. Each exhibition is a collaborative project formed by the fusion of the Ghostwriter/curator and the artist(s) he/she chooses to work with. Each […]
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MASQUERADE
Lucy Hogg, Tulsa Kinney, and Ron Terada
20 February 1997 - 29 March 1997
Opening Reception 20 February 1997 8pm
Main Gallery: MASQUERADE Mercer Union is pleased to present a group exhibition by Lucy Hogg (Vancouver), Tulsa Kinney (Los Angeles) and Ron Terada (Vancouver). All three interrogate their own relationship to several variations on painting’s histories. Hogg paints monumentally scaled versions of the eighteenth century French artists Antoine Watteau’s paintings, Gilles, in highly chromatic and […]
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SONOTUBE GARDEN
Laura Teneycke
9 January 1997 - 15 February 1997
Opening Reception 9 January 1997 8pm
Windows: Sonotube Garden The Mercer Union window space allows for a natural duality, giving viewers the option to access the work from the public visibility of King Street West or to enter the gallery space to experience the work as an intimate, first hand experience. Sonotube Garden is a site-specific wall-scape which is an extension […]
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GHOSTWRITER #3
Robert Houle and Don Hall
Curated by Gerald McMaster
9 January 1997 - 15 February 1997
Opening Reception 9 January 1997 8pm
Ghostwriter #3: A Project Room Series Featuring Robert Houle and Don Hall A View of Things Mercer Union is pleased to present Ghostwriter #3, the third in a series of five project room exhibitions which posit artmaking and writing as interlocked processes. Each exhibition is a collaborative project formed by the fusion of the Ghostwriter/curator […]
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I AM THE GREATEST
Roland Jean
9 January 1997 - 15 February 1997
Opening Reception 9 January 1997 8pm
Main Gallery: I AM THE GREATEST Mercer Union is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Toronto artist Roland Jean. Jean will exhibit five oil-on-stapled-together-plywood paintings that each juxtapose a caricatural portrait with an appropriation from a recent American or European painting. Despite the fact that the caricatures are based on widely circulated images-magazine and […]