The McMaster Museum of Art
Angela Grauerholz
May 6 - June 5, 2010
Image above: Angela Grauerholz, Luftfeuchtigskeitmesser, 2010, colour inkjet print on Arches paper,
edition of 3, 101.6 x 152.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, and Art 45, Montreal
KEYNOTE ADDRESS & ARTIST’S TALK
At Work and Play: A Web Experimentation
Thursday May 6, 4:45 pm
Council Chambers, Gilmour Hall 111, McMaster University
EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday May 6, 6 - 8 pm
at the McMaster Museum of Art
New and recent photoworks by Angela Grauerholz are presented in conjunction with the John Douglas Taylor Conference, The Archive and Everyday Life at McMaster University, May 6-8. The artist, who is also the Director of the Centre of Design, L’Universite de Quebec a Montreal (UQAM) and Winner of the Prix Borduas in 2006. is one of the conference keynote speakers.
The conference brings together academics, advocates, artists, and other cultural workers to examine the intersecting fields of archive and everyday life theory. The objective of everyday life theory, as another keynote speaker Dr. Ben Highmore, University of Sussex, wrote, is to “rescue the everyday from conventional habits of the mind…to attempt to register the everyday in all its complexities and contradictions.”
Paulette Gagnon, director of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, wrote of Grauerholz, “Her work gives an impression of timelessness that is expressed in a paradoxical way through images that are commonplace but at the same time sublime and unexpected.
A complement to the Grauerholz exhibition and conference will be the installation of Alfredo Jaar’s “unseen” photographs and archive work Benjamin, 1993, and Marcel Duchamp’s La boîte en valise, both from the McMaster collection.
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Related Links:
Angela Grauerholz - upcoming exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada
Angela Grauerholz: At Work and Play
The Archive and Everyday Life Conference Poster / Hamilton Artists Inc.
Angela Grauerholz: Page Turner by
Isa Tousignant, 2006