Future exhibitions
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Tactile Desires: The Work of Jack Sures
July 15 to October 14, 2012
Curators: Timothy Long, MacKenzie Art Gallery & Virginia Eichhorn, Tom Thomson
This exhibition is the first major retrospective of one of Canada’s most significant ceramists. Jack Sures is a multi-faceted figure whose exuberant, whimsical and sensuous work traverses the categories of craft, fine art and public monument. In addition to offering a comprehensive look at his work from the early 1960s to the present, this exhibition also celebrates his influence as an educator and mentor.
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Art and Technology
October 28, 2012 to March 17, 2013
Today, when we hear of artists working with new technologies, we might imagine kinetic, interactive, or computer-activated works but both the brush and throwing wheel were once considered new technologies. This exhibition explores the extraordinary possibilities that are available to artists who incorporate of 3-D scanning and printing and how these can impact the creation process as the artist goes back and forth between digital and analog processes.
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