Re-Mediations
January 19, 2008 - March 02, 2008
Stephen Foster & James Gillespie
Talk with Curator Janet Jones and artist James Gillespie at 2:00 pm Saturday, January 19 with reception following.
Free admission opening day.
Curated by Janet Jones. In collaboration with the McMaster Museum of Art and the Kelowna Art Gallery.
Re-Mediations features photo-media works and video projections by Stephen Foster (Kelowna) and James Gillespie (Toronto) that comment on how the media represents us. Using the form of media spectacle to comment on itself, Stephen Foster, a Haida Metis, and James Gillespie, of European descent, each confront from different racial and cultural positions how a dominant European culture has marginalized and silenced the ''other''. While using very contemporary technologies, their works consistently reference history. These provocative images reveal much about our current world, including that an understanding of our past is crucial to our present. They prompt us to question our everyday responses to issues of race, region and class and help to open up dialogue on post-colonial issues.
Stephen Foster is a video and electronic media artist with an extensive exhibition record and curatorial experience. Formerly, Foster was in charge of programming at Trinity Square Video, Toronto and continues to be actively involved in the artist run centre, Altenator Gallery, Kelowna. Currently he teaches Media Arts at the University of British Columbia, Kelowna.
James Gillespie is a multi-media artist, writer and educator. He has exhibited internationally and has taught both visual arts and cultural studies at a number of Canadian universities. Gillespie has lectured on contemporary art internationally, at art schools and universities in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia as well as in England, France, Germany and Beijing, China.
Janet Jones, exhibition curator, is also a practicing artist and educator. She has exhibited her paintings in numerous solo and group shows across Canada; in Germany, France, England and The Netherlands; and in New York. Her most recent paintings focus on the theme of the techno-sublime and feminist geography within urban spaces. She has lectured on both her own work and Canadian painting in Europe, Russia and China. Currently she is Chair of the Department of Visual Arts, York University and is Associate Professor, Painting and Art Criticism.
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