Curators to discuss Internationally acclaimed artists Monkman and Fernandes at McIntosh Gallery
November 02, 2011
Join ArtLab Gallery director Susan Edelstein and visual arts professor Patrick Mahon, curators of Barroco Nova: Neo-Baroque Moves in Contemporary Art, for lunch-hour tours of the Kent Monkman and Brendan Fernandes’s installations at McIntosh Gallery:
Patrick Mahon: Barroco Nova: Neo-Baroque Moves in Contemporary Art
Thursday, November 3, 12:30 P.M.
McIntosh Gallery
Co-curator of Barroco Nova, Patrick Mahon is an artist, curator and professor at Western's Department of Visual Arts. Mahon’s art practice has been the subject of both national and international exhibitions. His curatorial projects have appeared at galleries throughout Canada. He will conduct a tour of the component of Barroco Nova on display at McIntosh Gallery, emphasizing the work of Kent Monkman.
Susan Edelstein: Barroco Nova: Neo-Baroque Moves in Contemporary Art
Wednesday, November 9, 12:30 P.M.
McIntosh Gallery
Susan Edelstein is co-curator of the exhibition Barroco Nova and director of ArtLab Gallery at Western's Department of Visual Arts. Edelstein has curated over 80 national and international exhibitions working with such artists as artists as Shirin Neshat, Jin-me Yoon, Ed Pien, Mariko Mori and Takashi Murukami. Recent projects include Breaking and Entering: The House Cut, Spliced and Haunted, organized with art historian Bridget Elliott, and including artists Heather Benning, Iris Häussler, David Hoffos and Wyn Geleynse. Her research interests include museum and curatorial practices, visual culture, and the diffusion and reception of art within the gallery context. Edelstein will conduct a tour of the component of Barroco Nova on display at McIntosh Gallery, emphasizing the work of Brendan Fernandes.
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