HEY ACE MEMBERS!!!
TIME TO WARM UP AND SHOW OFF SOME ARTWORK!!!
WINTER WARMER
FRIDAY, December 7 -15, 2007
doors open 7pm
The Winter Warmer is an Open Members show of new works of any medium. Most works are for sale with 100% of the profits going directly to the artists.
aceartinc. Reception: Friday 26th October, 7.30pm (CT)
Artist talk: Janice Wright Cheney, Saturday, 27th October at 2pm
Artistes de la galerie Connexion
Gallery Connexion Artists (Showing at aceartinc.)
Carol Taylor, Sarah Petite, Stephanie Wierathmuller, Stephen May, Janice Wright Cheney
Artistes d’aceartinc.
aceartinc. artists (Showing at Gallery Connexion)
Collin Zipp, Maclean, Cyrus Smith, Mélanie Rocan, Veronica Preweda, Martin Finkenzeller, Doug Melnyk, Michael Benjamin Brown, Sylvia Matas, Rob Fordyce
The Further East You Go, The Further West You Come (or, to be pedantic, The More Central You Come).
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Dan Donaldson
Art Imitating Life Imitating Art
26th October – 24 November 2007
Reception: Friday 26th October, 7:30pm
This show is firstly a play on words, but it is also structured around the use of metaphors, cliché’s and ironies. It is a combination of LIFE Magazine’s documentation of world events over the last 30 or 40 years, intertwined with my own graphic styling and sense of humor. Everyone at some point has used the standard cliché “it’s like life imitating Art”, or vice-versa, and I am simply taking this phrase to heart and creating a large body of work.
The idea behind this work first took root nearly fifteen years ago, and came about more or less by accident. I was making a piece for a Student Bolshevic show called “Punished in silk”. I decided to paint a negative image of Abe Lincoln licking his lips, in what I thought to be a fitting style, given the title of the show. As money was tight, I painted the work on an old bed sheet which happened to have a square patch sewn on it. I decided to paint part of the LIFE logo on the square to make the patch less noticeable. From there, I just decided to keep adding pieces, when I wasn’t working on anything else. I did this for about a year, and then moved on to other things. It wasn’t until I pulled the work out of storage a couple of years ago that I decided to get back into it.
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ARTIST IN RESIDENCE : September 2007aceartinc. is excited to host photographer Amy Russell to our gallery and Winnipeg during the month of September. We hope that the Winnipeg community welcomes her.
Amy Russell is originally from West Cork Ireland. She graduated with a Masters of Fine Art from the University of Ulster, Belfast in 2005.
She is a practicing artist based at Queen Street Studios, Belfast for the past two years. Her practice is a mixture of sculpture and photography. She has currently just completed a Certificate in Youth Art with The National Youth Council Of Ireland in Dublin. Amy has coordinated and been involved with a number of cross-community art based projects in Belfast. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Recent group exhibitions include “The Space Shuttle Project” PS2 Belfast and “Engendered Species” LA California.
The Winnipeg Trash Museum
An exhibition of new work by Frieso Boning
Reception: Friday September 14, 7:30pm (Artist in Attendance)
Artist talk: Wednesday September 19, 7pm
Taking familiar objects and altering perceptions, Frieso Boning has come up with a mixed media installation that cleverly incorporates humour. The Winnipeg Trash Museum is an in-depth exploration of the specific subject of trash and and at the same time an examination of museological practice. 
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digShift
Roewan Crowe
22 June – 4 August, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, 22 June at 7:30 pm
Artist Talk: 7 pm, Wednesday, 18 July 2007
In the installation digShift, artist Roewan Crowe delves into shifting layers of meaning at an abandoned gas station. For over 15 years she has reluctantly yet faithfully returned to this site from her past to take photographs, perform, write, theorize, dig, and shoot video in an attempt to imagine some sort of reclamation – personal, historical, and environmental – for this compelling and toxic landscape.
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Showing at aceartinc. :
CKUW 95.9 FM presents
SEND + RECEIVE: A FESTIVAL OF SOUND [version 9] May 8 to 13, 2007
Winnipeg, Canada
for more info on the festival & program around the city:
http://www.myspace.com/sendandreceive
www.sendandreceive.org
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The conventions of beauty and the sublime invest landscape with a sense of yearning and longing. These conventions have existed since the 18th century and can be looked at self-consciously to help locate and critically diagnose our own yearnings today. Our current cultural predicament includes the realization that the concept of “nature” is a social construct. Nature is a provisional category that is ideologically determined. The artistic movements of the picturesque and the sublime were the early symptoms of a continuing relationship with nature and landscape as something that is romanticized and lost. Melanie Authier is interested in the emotional exploration of these sites of longing, yearning and desire. Her paintings express the idea of a landscape or “nature” that is mediated. They probe both the ways that landscape is presented to us and the ways that we experience it in the 21st century, while remaining attentive to all the rhetorical possibilities of the languages of abstract painting.
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still images from Mayasitiw (2006) by GABRIEL YAHYAHKEEKOOT
TRANSITION/TRANSACTION
Curated by Elwood Jimmy
March 16 – April 21, 2007
Reception 7.30pm Friday March 16
Panel Discussion, Saturday, March 17, 2pm
Moderated by Steve Loft with Elwood Jimmy, Daybi and Gabriel Yahyahkeekoot.
Transition/Transaction features recent video works by Gabriel Yahyahkeekoot and Daybi, two young Aboriginal media artists with roots in the Plains region of Canada.
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In the Project Room
SKIN
Gwen Armstrong
February 27th – Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
Skin is a mixed media installation and performance work presented as the final defense thesis work by University of Manitoba, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) candidate Gwen Armstrong.
I remain in a state of perplexed wonder at the miracle of relationship, the immeasurable potential for renegotiating the treacherous capacity of skin to be both barrier and opening. Skin permits, skin denies. As the erected boundaries of modernity fall, how do we gatekeep our bodies, our hearts, our humanity? How do we manage our skin, our only true boundary? Skin held too openly invites the penetration of pathogens and pain. But when cells multiply, covet immortality and forget how to die, impervious skin must be cut to allow release.
So I’m building a wall with the found bits of elasticity that are shed onto my path (well, rubber bands, actually). On the outside, I confess myself in video gathered from the past months of living with cancer. On the inside of my elastic wall, I will be living.
Please come to visit me in the project room at aceart.
2nd Floor, 290 McDermot Avenue
Tuesday, February 27th – Saturday, March 3rd, 2007.
12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m.
During this time, you can also contact me at armstrong.gwen@gmail.com.
Donigan Cumming : EPISODIC
January 12 – February 24, 2007
Reception: Friday January 12, 7:30pm (Artist in Attendance)
Artist talk: Saturday January 13, 2pm
When Cumming turned to video in 1995, he retained his actors/models just as he maintained his fascination with what they evoked. Cumming seeks to know about death and the inroads of age and illness, drink and drugs; he studies unwitting delusion and the circumstances of self-destruction. Yet his subjects are survivors, real people living their lives despite their potential for squalor.
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