The Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG) takes a national stage on Friday June 16th, 2006 at 6:30 pm to salute Ontario's public art galleries at the 2006 OAAG Awards at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.
OAAG is an important component of the visual arts infrastructure in Canada, serving and representing Ontario's public art galleries as essential and valued cultural resources.
Now in their 29th year, OAAG's prestigious juried awards of merit recognize seven areas of public art gallery activity: Exhibition of the Year, Curatorial Writing, Design, Exhibition Design and Installation, Education, Community Partnerships and Volunteer of the Year.
Celebrating Ontario's Public Art Galleries
2006 OAAG Award Artist Projects
Derek Sullivan
The 2006 OAAG Award has been produced by Toronto artist Derek Sullivan as a limited series of artist multiples and is similar conceptually to a recent Kiosk project commissioned by the Toronto Sculpture Garden. Each OAAG Award will be handmade including fragments of his related 2006 OAAG Awards poster project I cried tears of joy when I held it in my hands. Look for the poster to start surfacing in Toronto and Ottawa in the week leading up to the event. Derek Sullivan holds a BFA from York University and an MFA from the University of Guelph. His work has been seen in exhibitions in Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal, Berlin, Shanghai and New York. He is represented by Jessica Bradley Art + Projects.
Kent Monkman
The 2006 OAAG Awards celebration opens with a rare screening of artist Kent Monkman's 2005 film Group of Seven Inches. Produced at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, in this film Monkman subverts the subjectivity and authority of colonial history by illustrating the tenuous relationship between artist and model, inspired by the diaries of 19th century North American landscape painters George Catlin and Paul Kane.
Kent Monkman is an artist of Cree ancestry who works with a variety of mediums, including painting, film/video, performance and installation. His recent work facilitates dialogue about colonial power relations using sexuality as a forum to negotiate power. He has had solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Indian Art Centre, and has participated in group exhibitions in Canada, USA, UK, and Mexico, including: "We come in peace…" Histories of the Americas, at the Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal, and The American West, at Compton Verney, in Warwickshire, England. Monkman has created site specific performances at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and at Compton Verney, and has also made super 8 versions of these performances that he calls "Colonial Art Space Interventions". Monkman has won numerous awards from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council. His award winning short film and video works have been screened at various national and international festivals. He has collaborated with Gisèle Gordon on film and video works for over a decade, making such award-winning films as A Nation is Coming and Blood River. His work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Museum London, the Woodland Cultural Centre, the Indian Art Centre, The Mackenzie Art Gallery, and the Canada Council Art Bank.
Jeff Thomas
Ottawa-based Jeff Thomas, curator, photographer and cultural analyst, will be present documenting the 2006 OAAG Award winners with a series of commemorative portraits based on his Delegate series.
Jeff Thomas is an Iroquois/Onondaga curator, photographer and cultural analyst now living in Ottawa who has works in major collections in Canada, the United States and Europe; including the National Gallery’s Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, and the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland. Jeff’s most recent solo shows were Jeff Thomas: A Study of Indian-ness, Scouting for Indians in New York City and Geronimo Was Here in Buffalo. He has also been in many group shows, including Images of the American Indian, at the Birchfield-Penney Art Center and Crossing Borders: Beadwork in Iroquois Life at the Museum of Civilization. In 1998, he was awarded the Canada Council’s prestigious Duke and Duchess of York Award in Photography. His specialty is the exploration of historical cultural resources to bring voices, stories and perspectives into the present. In his curatorial projects, such as Emergence from the Shadow: First Peoples’ Photographic Perspective at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and Aboriginal Portraits at the National Archives of Canada, Jeff has mined the archival vaults of non-Native visual and written records to recover lost elements of Aboriginal history. Jeff’s personal photographic practice is concerned with showing the perspective of an urban Iroquoian person.
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380 Sussex Drive Box 427, Station A
Ottawa, Ontario
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Directions:
From highway 417, take the Metcalfe exit. Follow Metcalfe Street around the Museum of Nature and continue north-bound until you reach the end of the street at Wellington. You will see Parliament Hill. Turn right onto Wellington Street and continue in the left-hand lane until you reach Sussex Drive. As you approach Sussex Drive, you will see the Chateau Laurier hotel on your left-hand side. Make a left turn onto Sussex Drive and continue until you see the Gallery, to your left, at the corner of St. Patrick and Sussex. The Gallery is a large glass building with two octagonal towers. Just beyond the St Patrick/Sussex intersection you will see the left-turn lane to enter the Gallery's underground parking.
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FACT SHEET
2006 Ontario Association of Art Galleries Awards
Event Overview: 2006 Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG) Awards celebrate Ontario public art galleries and their excellence and achievement in programming and community partnerships.
Date: Friday, June 16, 2006
Location: National Gallery of Canada 380 Sussex Drive, Ottawa
Time: 5:30 pm Reception 6:30 pm
Awards Ceremony Award Categories: Exhibition Award, Curatorial Writing Awards, Design Awards, Exhibition Design and Installation Awards, Educator Awards, Partner Awards and Volunteer Award
After Party: 8 pm to midnight at Galerie SAW Gallery, 67 Nicholas Street, Ottawa
Event Sponsor: Manaca Inc.
Website: www.oaag.org, www.ottawaartgallery.ca
For media information and visuals: Ottawa - Suki Lee, The Ottawa Art Gallery,
Toronto - Maureen Smith, University of Toronto Art Centre Contact: awards@oaag.org
Committee:
Anitra Hamilton, Anna Hudson, Suki Lee and Maureen Smith
Sponsor:
C.J. Graphics
Event Sponsor:
Manaca Inc.
Venue Sponsor:
National Gallery of Canada
The Ottawa Art Gallery
Galerie SAW GallerySpecial Thanks:
AGYU
Chris Blanchenot
Mela Constantinidi
Véronique Couillard
Jenny Florence
Aaron McKenzie Fraser
Elaine Gaito
Gallery 44
Anik Glaude
The Globe and Mail
Home Depot @ 2121 St. Clair West, Toronto ON
Japanese Paper Place
Arlene M Kennedy
Lisa Kiss Design
Pamela and Dale Krueger
McAuslan Brewing
Brian Meehan
Museumpros Art Service Inc.
Nutcracker Sweet
Erin Peck
The Power Plant
SAWVideo
Laura Simmons
Julie Trewartha
Carolyn Tripp
Liz Wylie
AWARDS INVITE BY LISA KISS DESIGN, TORONTO - PRINTING BY C.J. GRAPHICS INC. - 2006 OAAG AWARDS TROPHY AND POSTER CONCEPT BY DEREK SULLIVAN (www.jessicabradleyartprojects.com)