2010
NEWS, WEATHER & SPORTS
Dates: Friday, September 10, 2010 – Saturday, January 22, 2011
Artist: Dan Hudson
Curator: Marianne Elder
Medium: Video
Gallery: The Media Gallery
Dan Hudson’s year-long time lapse explores the linear and cyclical qualities of time. NEWS, WEATHER & SPORTS documents one year of seasonal changes and visitor activities at a public park amidst an audio composition of clips taken from news, weather and sports from the same year. Negating any sense of personal isolation, the continuous loop reveals the fundamental and timeless nature of humanity.
Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sport
Dates: Friday, April 30, 2010 - Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Artists: Matthew Barney, Mark Bradford, Marcelino Gonçalves, Lyle Ashton Harris, Brian Jungen, Kurt Kauper, Shaun El C. Leonardo, Kori Newkirk, Catherine Opie, Paul Pfeiffer, Marco Rios, Collier Schorr, Joe Sola, Sam Taylor-Wood, Hank Willis Thomas
Curator: Christopher Bedford
Medium: Mixed Media
Gallery: All
Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports, is an exhibition about contemporary art that deals with the subject of the male athlete. This particular artistic theme has become increasingly prevalent during the past several years, building upon several decades of discourse about identity and gender. Including artists ranging from such well-known individuals as Matthew Barney, Catherine Opie, Collier Schorr, and Sam Taylor-Wood to emerging talents such as Shaun El C. Leonardo and Joe Sola, Mixed Signals demonstrates that the male athlete is a far more ambiguous, polyvalent figure in our collective cultural imagination than ever before. Using elements of wit, sarcasm, and controversy, these artists challenge cultural assumptions that gender is ever natural or innate. Instead, they emphasize the many ways masculinity is always performed, coded, and socially constructed, perhaps even more so in the spectacular, media-saturated field of sports.
The Kingston Prize 2009: Canada’s National Portrait Competition
Dates: Saturday, January 30, 2010 - Saturday, April 10, 2010
Curator: Mary-Colleen Rabb
Medium: Painting and drawing
Gallery: Main and Tall
The Kingston Prize is awarded in a biennial national competition for contemporary portraits of Canadians by Canadian artists, with an exhibition of thirty finalists chosen by a distinguished jury. To be eligible, an entry must be a painting or drawing of a specific person, produced within 24 months of the closing date and based upon a meeting between artist and subject. The Kingston Prize of $10,000 is presented by the W. Garfield Weston Foundation to the winner chosen by the jury. A $1,000 People’s Choice Prize, is awarded at each of the four exhibition locations, based upon ballots submitted by visitors to the exhibition.