*Please note NEW LOCATION: Alexander Hall, Room 100
Monday, January 21, 6:00pm
Free admission - all are welcome
Art Green, was a founding member of Chicago’s infamous “Hairy Who”. His work has been the subject of 25 solo shows, and is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Institute of Chicago and Vienna’s Museum Moderner Kunst, among others. Recently, Green's paintings were featured in the major exhibition of “Chicago Imagists” at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and another at Thomas Danes Gallery in London, England. Art Green is represented by Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery in Chicago, Illinois.
A Nabob's Progress: Graphic Satire and British Imperial Excess
Tuesday January 29 th
5:00 pm
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
Lecture room
Reception to follow
Dr. Christina Smylitopoulos is a specialist in art and visual culture of the long eighteenth century. She received her PhD from McGill University and, before joining the art history faculty at the University of Guelph, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Yale Center for British Art. Her current research traces the significance of Regency illustrated books, which occupy an unclear position in the trajectory from stand-alone Georgian graphic satire to the Victorian comic.
Working as artist, curator, and writer, Luis Jacob's diverse practice addresses issues of social interaction and the subjectivity of aesthetic experience.
Recent solo exhibitions of his work include Show Your Wound, Galerie Max Mayer, Duesseldorf and Birch Libralato, Toronto (2012); A Finger in the Pie, A Foot in the Door, A Leg in Quicksand, Kunsthalle Lingen (2012); Pictures at an Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (2011); Tableaux Vivants, Fonderie Darling, Montréal (2010); 7 Pictures of Nothing Repeated Four Times, in Gratitude, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2009); and Habitat, Kunstverein Hamburg, (2008).
Recent group exhibitions include Taipei Biennial 2012, Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan; Surplus Authors, Witte de With Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2012); Animism, Generali Foundation, Vienna (2011); Haunted: Contemporary Photography / Video / Performance, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010); If We Can’t Get It Together, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2008); and Documenta 12, Kassel (2007).
University of Guelph Symphonic and Women's Choirs present
The Mystery of Bethlehem
Conductors Marta McCarthy and Lanny Fleming
Church of Our Lady, 28 Norfolk Street, Guelph
8:00pm
Accompanist: Betty Maher
Featuring: The Mystery of Bethlehem by Healey Willan, Joseph Carere, organ, and the Guelph Chamber Players, orchestra.
Tickets available in advance by calling 519-824-4120 x52991 or at the door starting at 7pm.
