Ignition 8 features studio arts graduate students' works
Hoping to challenge your own views on life and death, old age, memory, and gender roles? Look no further than Concordia University’s Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, where Ignition 8 is currently on display.
The exhibition, now in its eighth year, is a compilation of works by Concordia graduate students. Director Michèle Thériault and independent Montreal curator Véronique Leblanc were responsible for selecting the projects in this year’s exhibit.
“We do a call months before and then students just propose projects without any specific thematic or problematic,” explains Thériault. “They propose a recent work or a recent project, in any medium, and then we sit down and look at all of them, and we pick what we feel will work well together in a group of maybe six to eight projects.”
Thériault explains the idea behind the Ignition 8 exhibit: “It’s a show to showcase the work of young artists who are still in school but are showing as professional artists and will be artists of the future and are likely to continue as an artistic practice. So we’re showing in a way the practice at that stage of development.”
The exhibit showcases the work of eight Concordia students, from Marie-Pier Breton’s in limbo to Joanne Joe Yan Hui’s Expo Daily.
Ignition 8 is on display until Saturday, June 16 and admission to the gallery is free of charge.
When: Thursday, May 17 to Saturday, June 16.
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Room LB-165, J.W. McConnell Library Building (1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.), Sir George Williams Campus
Related Links:
• Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery
• MFA in Studio Arts program