Five exhibitions you’ll want to catch this fall

Painting and Drawing faculty Francois Morelli and Eric Simon, along with Gilles Daigneault from the Guido Molinari Foundation, have curated the exhibition Time, Lines: Drawings from Concordia: 1946-2017. As the title suggests, all twenty-eight artists exhibited in this show have either been a student or professor at Concordia University (or Sir George Williams) and are known for their drawing practices.

The idea for the exhibition comes from the Drawing Lab Dessin (DLD), a research platform that both Morelli and Simon work through. The DLD is interested in both the act of teaching and making, but also in the history of drawing.

“Drawing was a prominent part of the studio arts curriculum,” says Morelli. As early as the 1930s, Drawing and Painting was one of the first courses to be taught at the Sir George Williams Art School. However, as Morelli explains, “Not enough attention had been paid to the history of drawing.”

The exhibition is being held at the Guido Molinari Foundation and runs from September 21 to December 17, 2017. See photos from the vernissage.

Sticky Pictures

Sticky Pictures is an exhibition of recent paintings by Janet Werner, Professor of Painting and Drawing at Concordia University which marks a change in her artistic practice. For nearly two decades Werner has focused primarily on painting the female figure, drawn from found images in magazine and books. In this exhibition, she is shifting her focus from the subject in a photograph to the photograph itself. Through these means, Werner explores our “sticky” relationship to images.

The exhibition is being held at Parisian Laundry and runs from September 8 to October 7, 2017.

The Bejesus

Through large format drawings, narrative tableaus, paper simulations, and found objects, Part-time Professor of Painting and Drawing Adrian Norvid explores the unfortunate and the decrepit in his solo exhibition The Bejesus. These works are centered around a theatre set, The Little Black Bumhole Opera, which will act as a site for the artist’s interventions taking place over the course of the exhibition.

The exhibition is being held at the FOFA Gallery and runs from September 11 to October 20, 2017.
 

Hexe – Marion Wagschal

Hexe is an exhibition of recent works by Marion Wagschal, Professor Emerita of Painting and Drawing at Concordia University. Executed mainly in the last year, the paintings and works on paper exhibited were produced throughout a period during which Wagschal enlisted the help of painter Paul Hardy.

The exhibition is being held at Battat Contemporary and runs from September 14 to November 20, 2017.

La Main Invisible