Nickle At Noon: March - Godfre Leung, Sarah Alford, Brian Flynn
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Nickle Galleries 410 University Court NW, Taylor Family Digital Library, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Christopher K. Ho, "CX 888, de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong," 2018
Godfre Leung – Hong Kong Is a Loaded Term: Rewriting Vancouver Art History, 1989–1997
Thursday, March 3 - 12:00 PM
The history of Vancouver art is likely Canada’s most thoroughly narrated municipal art history. In this talk, Godfre Leung lays out some groundwork to reimagine several dominant narratives of the city’s recent past, especially the global rise of the careers of Stan Douglas, Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, Jeff Wall, and Ian Wallace (and the proliferation of its critical shorthand, “Photoconceptualism”), and the urban phenomenon known as Vancouverism. Rethinking these accounts of Vancouver in the ’90s through their unspoken term, the wave of Hong Kong to Vancouver immigration between 1989 and 1997, this talk offers a recasting of the city’s abiding metaphors, from the terminal city of settler-colonialist expansion to a connective transnational node.
Leung is a critic and curator based in Mohkinstsis/Calgary. His writing has appeared in magazines such as ArtAsiaPacific, Art in America, C Magazine, The Third Rail, and Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and has been commissioned for publications by a number of institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art and Walker Art Center. As part of his recent curatorial project unstately, he organized the exhibitions Pao Houa Her: Emplotment (Or Gallery, 2020) and Guesthood and Alienhood: Sun Yung Shin, Jinny Yu, Republic of the Other(Hotam Press Bookshop/Gallery, 2021), and commissioned and edited the poetry book granted to a foreign citizen by Sun Yung Shin (Artspeak, 2020).
He holds a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester and has taught courses at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, Ontario College of Art and Design (now OCAD University), and St. Cloud State University, where he was assistant/associate professor of art history from 2012 to 2018. Leung is Artistic Director for the artist-run centre, The Bows.
This talk will be presented live via Zoom.
Meeting ID: 990 7821 5923
Passcode: Nickle
Sarah Alford: Multiple Affinities – Art Botany and Design Reform, 1835-1870
Thursday, March 10 - 12:00 PM
In early nineteenth-century Britain, natural philosophers found themselves in a crisis: A rapid influx of exotic plants had begun to defy and confuse the orders of classification. Specimens were arriving in nurseries and conservatories that couldn’t possibly exist. To cope, botanists invented a new and unstable Victorian taxonomy called the Natural System. This talk addresses the unsung role the Natural System played in the emergence of Victorian era design theory and education.
Sarah Alford is an Assistant Professor at the Alberta University of the Arts. She earned an MA in Visual and Critical Studies (2009), and MFA in studio through the department of Fibre and Material Studies, Art Institute of Chicago (2010) and a PhD in Art History and Art Conservation Queens University, on the subject of Art Botany in British nineteenth-century design reform (2018). She has exhibited across Canada, Scotland, and the United States, including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
This talk will be presented live via Zoom.
Meeting ID: 990 7821 5923
Passcode: Nickle
Artist Talk – Brian Flynn: Repainting The Troubles
March 17, 2022 – 12:00 pm
Dealing with fear and conflict is no easy proposition. Yet considering everyone invariably faces anxiety at some time, coming to terms with adversity is an important step on the path to acceptance. For Brian Flynn, experiencing the violence in Northern Ireland during the height of The Troubles, it’s been a long road to confronting the harsh realities of the human condition. The outcome is a series of new paintings giving voice and form, both to personal experience of civil war and the result of meticulous research, including interviews with former members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
Join artist Brian Flynn for a discussion of his latest exhibition, No Photos… No Recordings… No Notes…Brian Flynn: Repainting The Troubles, curated by Dick Averns and currently on view at Nickle Galleries (January 17 – April 9, 2022).
This talk will be presented live via Zoom.
Meeting ID: 990 7821 5923
Passcode: Nickle
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