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Ignition

Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, LB Building
Daily until June 12, 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Walk-in tours
Daily, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.

The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery is pleased to present Ignition, an annual exhibition featuring new work by students completing their Master of Fine Arts degree in Concordia University’s Studio Arts program. This exhibition provides an up-and-coming generation of artists with a unique opportunity to present ambitious, interdisciplinary works in the professional context of a gallery with a national and international profile. This year, Ignition features seven artists whose practices include photography, video, installation, drawing, and sculpture:

Amélie Brisson-Darveau, Gwynne Fulton, Zohar Kfir, Niki Mulder, Tara Nicholson, Sabrina Russo, Marigold Santos.

Lecture: Waging Culture

Monday May 31 at 6 p.m. (in English)

Michael Maranda, assistant curator at the Art Gallery of York University, discusses the recently completed the Waging Culture survey, the most comprehensive study of the socio-economic status of visual artists in Canada since Statistics Canada's 1993 Cultural Labour Force Survey.

Reception

Wednesday June 2, 5 to 7 p.m.

Performance by Women With Kitchen Appliances (WWKA) at 6 p.m.

"We are three, four or five or six. Identical. Interchangeable. Disposable. And dead serious. We are a rock band, a sound project, a cabaret act, a synchronized rubber glove routine, a BBQ chicken washing machine, a confectionary flour Christmas jingle and Kitchen certification service."