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Opening on Wednesday, Feb. 15 from 6 to 9 pm at Georgian Faculty’s Campus Gallery is the spectacular 25-year retrospective exhibition by Georgian alum Sean-William Dawson (SWD).
Titled Easy Abundancethe exhibition incorporates a plethora of SWD’s work from his 25-year profession of efficiently creating artwork and instructing since graduating from Georgian Faculty.
Working in a novel curatorial collaboration with Georgian Faculty’s museum and gallery research college students, the exhibition options paintings created in quite a lot of media, from classic books to mattress sheets. The scholars chosen all of the work on show and wrote the accompanying interpretative labels.
Via this exhibition, the artist goals to discover the place he has been, the place he’s presently, and what he sees himself doing sooner or later. Using nostalgic and upcycled supplies, SWD makes use of its artwork apply to assist encourage youngsters and adults to repeatedly create.
SWD considers artwork to be “essentially the most common type of communication,” and all through the exhibition there are lots of messages that it strives to convey via the richness of popular culture.
The opening reception will characteristic a number of particular components together with a digital actuality expertise. Moreover, tapping into his different punk background, SWD has partnered with native enterprise Tarantula Tapes to create a soundtrack to the exhibition that includes all of the bands he has collaborated with over time.
Funding help supplied from the Ontario Arts Council, an company of the Authorities of Ontario.
Easy Abundance runs till March 26, 2023.
The Campus Gallery is positioned in Room 140, D constructing (Helen and Arch Brown Heart for Design and Visible Arts) on the Barrie campus, Georgian Faculty, 1 Georgian Dr.
Hours of operation are Monday to Friday from 10 am to 4 pm, and Saturday and Sunday from midday to 4 pm
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