UAS +15 Gallery - Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
Faith Perratt: I Am Unsure You Are Sure
Runs: April 8th to May 30th, 2013
Closing Reception: May 16th @ 7PM to 8PM
To look, to view … to understand, to comprehend… to evaluate. These are stages we often go through when viewing art and within our everyday lives. We are constantly deciding what something means and placing value on objects and the things around us. This exhibition is part of an ongoing investigation into how display and presentation affect value judgments.
Bio:
Faith Perratt is a visual artist currently based in Calgary, Alberta. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Alberta College of Art and Design. Her work involves the use of mundane everyday materials, language and the performative act to explore a further understanding of meaning and value judgments. She has a strong interest in collaborative practices. She was the co-founder of InCahoots Collaborative Art Gallery which was a very small student run galley at Alberta College of Art and Design and has completed many other collaborative projects.
Artist statement:
Mundane, quotidian, commonplace…. These are all words that label things as everyday and of no significant importance; to label things this way we must use our own set of value judgments. My practice uses common everyday materials, language and mundane repetitive acts to question meaning and value within art and everyday life.
A lot of my work and curiosity about meaning and art can be better understood by looking at and questioning the definition of the word something.
Something: - some unspecified or unknown thing
-a known understood but unexpressed quantity, quality or extent.
Something is really just some thing. In order for something to be something there must be a something not, a nothing. What makes us decide that something is something and nothing is nothing? Could we not say something is nothing and nothing is something? Why does something mean something? Why do we value something more than nothing?
These questions are at the root of my artistic practice. I do not want to find meaning but rather come to an understanding of why and how things mean. I want to understand the processes of cognition and perception. I would like to take what might seem like a step backwards and asks how meaning is made. How do things mean? Why do things mean? How and why do we make value judgments? How does something’s value affect what it means?
Closing Reception: May 16th @ 7PM to 8PM
To look, to view … to understand, to comprehend… to evaluate. These are stages we often go through when viewing art and within our everyday lives. We are constantly deciding what something means and placing value on objects and the things around us. This exhibition is part of an ongoing investigation into how display and presentation affect value judgments.
Bio:
Faith Perratt is a visual artist currently based in Calgary, Alberta. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Alberta College of Art and Design. Her work involves the use of mundane everyday materials, language and the performative act to explore a further understanding of meaning and value judgments. She has a strong interest in collaborative practices. She was the co-founder of InCahoots Collaborative Art Gallery which was a very small student run galley at Alberta College of Art and Design and has completed many other collaborative projects.
Artist statement:
Mundane, quotidian, commonplace…. These are all words that label things as everyday and of no significant importance; to label things this way we must use our own set of value judgments. My practice uses common everyday materials, language and mundane repetitive acts to question meaning and value within art and everyday life.
A lot of my work and curiosity about meaning and art can be better understood by looking at and questioning the definition of the word something.
Something: - some unspecified or unknown thing
-a known understood but unexpressed quantity, quality or extent.
Something is really just some thing. In order for something to be something there must be a something not, a nothing. What makes us decide that something is something and nothing is nothing? Could we not say something is nothing and nothing is something? Why does something mean something? Why do we value something more than nothing?
These questions are at the root of my artistic practice. I do not want to find meaning but rather come to an understanding of why and how things mean. I want to understand the processes of cognition and perception. I would like to take what might seem like a step backwards and asks how meaning is made. How do things mean? Why do things mean? How and why do we make value judgments? How does something’s value affect what it means?
Visit UAS +15 Gallery
Located in +15 walkway at the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts
205 8 Avenue SE, Calgary
available for viewing during the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts regular building hours.
205 8 Avenue SE, Calgary
available for viewing during the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts regular building hours.
About UAS +15 Gallery
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The +15 pedestrian network is a system of above-ground walkways connecting commercial and public buildings in Calgary's downtown core. A series of display windows in the +15 walkway in the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts, located at 205 8 Avenue SE, are used as exhibition spaces by local artist-run organizations. The Marion Nicoll Gallery, The New Gallery, TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary, Stride Gallery, and Untitled Art Society respectively program these spaces. These exhibitions are in place for a period of two months, and are viewable to the general public during the EPCOR CENTRE’s regular building hours.
These exhibition spaces are open to all emerging and pre-emerging artists with an emphasis on showcasing site-specific installations or small bodies of work. The +15 Gallery promotes the artistic excellence of emerging artists and emphasizes the increased outreach capacity of this highly visible space. Receptions are held in conjunction with other artist run centres with drinks to follow at a local pub. Modest artist fees are paid for +15 exhibitions. |
