Reception: April 15th, 7-10pm
Exhibition Dates: April 15th - 25th
Alison Milne Gallery, open Wednesday-Saturday 12-6pm
Other Self is the graduating Thesis Exhibition of Michelle MacKinnon from York University.
“I relate deeply to the experience of quiet, where nothing must be said, but can be understood through the respectful regard for another. Quietness occurs when the absence of words presents the opportunity to simply look. A communicative moment takes place in the absence of verbal response, yet yields and encourages the act of self-reflection. The relationship between these moments of introspective quietness and looking exist to me as the key elements in the respectful regard between self and other.
This series of drawings depicts the people in my life with whom I am closest and whom I feel currently represent who I am: a portrait of myself through others.”
www.alisonmilne.com
Acknowledgements:
MacKinnon Brothers Brewing Company
DAVIDsTEA
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation
Encounters | York University Second Year MFA Exhibition
Encounters is the group exhibition of the eleven second year Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts students at York University.
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 22 from 6-9 pm
Exhibition Dates: January 20 - February 7, 2015
Artscape Youngplace Hallway Galleries
180 Shaw Street
8 am - 8 pm daily
Participating Artists:
Katie Bruce
Miles Collyer
Ashley Culver
Scott Harber
Rebecca Houston
Michelle MacKinnon
Ella Morton
Christos Pantieras
Anna Sarchami
Frances Thomas
Amy Wong
“In the past two years, the eleven artists participating in this exhibition have worked to develop, deconstruct, and redefine their individual art practices within the incubating structure of the MFA program at York University. Having shared workspaces, mentors, and classes together, the graduating artists emerge here not as creative collaborators. Rather, they form a set of singular, potent voices that grow more resonant through the incidental fricatives and harmonies arising in and from encounters with one another.”
-Vanessa Fleet & Megan Toye, excerpt from Encounters Publication Essay, 2015
image courtesy of Miles Collyer
design courtesy of Michael Fan
