Ed Pien

Instructor Profile

Ed Pien//Current Exhibitions

The Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool: Underwater

The Victoria and Albert Museum: China Through the Looking Glass

The Storey Art Gallery, Lancaster: Memento Touring Exhibition

Personal Websight Ed Pien

FASU TEA TIME

Beginning March 3rd
every Thursday,
Free and All Welcome

Featured Student Artist
Work By Courtney Kurysh

NAME: Courtney Kurysh
BIRTHDATE: September 12, 1987
AREA OF INTEREST: Performance art, video performance, large format photography
PRACTICE: Using self-imagery through the mediums of photography, video performance, and live performance, Kurysh questions issues of temporality and identity through her work. As she began to read more about photographic theory, particularly Sontag’s idea of “photography as the inventory of mortality”, Kurysh began to view her self-images as document of her presence and eventual absence and her own record of mortality, which led to an exploration of impermanence and temporality. These ideas are continually explored through her series photographs of fresh unmarked graves, “The Ground Will Forget”. As the body dissolves into landscape, it will eventually be physically absent while the memory remains present for those of the deceased. Having difficulty dealing with change, Kurysh appears to focus on the largest physical change we face in life: eventual death.

Her video and live performance practice comes from a fiercely feminist instinct and a constant questioning of female roles and expectation in Western society. Using her body as the canvas and drawing upon the use of masochism in performance art in the 1970s, she seeks to find a place for the confrontational art of that era in the twenty-first century. Drawing theoretical and physical inspiration from Martha Rosler and Vito Acconci respectively, Kurysh subjects her body various tortures of everyday female realities regarding body image, challenging the trappings of the female sex and hoping to come to grips with her own place in the continuum of female identity.

Call For Submissions

Gallery 1313

ECO ART 2011

Exhibit Gallery 1313

Earth Hour – March 26 8:30

Gallery 1313 is seeking artists whose art practice and discipline explores issues and concerns of the environment for an exhibition March 16-27 2011.

Reception March 17 7pm

This exhibit seeks art works that addresses issues of urban sprawl , buy local , eat local , air quality , water quality, energy conservation, clean renewable energy, global warming and other environmental concerns .

The exhibition will be curated by Gallery Director , Phil Anderson . Submissions will be accepted via email to director@g1313.org or philanderson@rogers.com

Please send a current CV , artist statement and 1-5 jpegs of works for consideration

Accepted artists will pay a admin fee of $45 per selected work .

Deadline March 9 2011

Gallery 1313 is also accepting new members in 2011 . Please go to our web site for details .

For more information please call 416-536-6778 or email director@g1313.org

Gallery 1313 1313 Queen St. West www.g1313.org

Gallery 1313 is celebrating 13 Years of operating in 2011 .

Inviting all

VISUAL ARTISTS

to submit their

work to the…

Multi-Faith Centre’s

Juried Art Show

Topic:

“Faith & Spirituality in Student Life: how students see their spiritual life or journey”

Contest Prizes:

1^st Prize $300

2^nd Prize $150

3^rd Prize $75

Deadline: 4pm Monday, March 1^st, 2011

For full Call for Submissions, or to submit your work, visit:
www.multifaith.utoronto.ca