Department of Art and Art History
Gallery Hours: 9am – 4:30pm
April 22 – May 3, 2013
Reception: April 26, 7 !
10pm
Gordon Snelgrove is constantly frustrated with the way language and culture can’t seem to hold still.
Becky Peters is interested in words: their relations to things; to other words, and how they embed social and political legacies. Inspired by artists like Martha Rosler (particularly The Semiotics of the
Kitchen, 1975), Peters uses photography and collage to explore the generative possibilities of image, text and the construction of self.
Jireh Wong works in between photography, sculpture and installation. Drawing on her Chinese
Canadian heritage, she deploys ancient practices like paper cutting and resituates them within a contemporary field of meanings to explore hybrid cultural identities. Slipping between traditions,
Wong’s practice functions both as an act of cultural recuperation as well as a revaluation of social and psychic liminality.
Reception: Friday, April 26, 7 !
10pm
Please contact the gallery for press photos and further information.
Marcus Miller, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery Director
191 Murray Bldg. University of Saskatchewan 3 Campus Dr. Saskatoon SK S7N 5A4
306-966-4208 marcus.miller@usask.ca www.usask.ca/snelgrove