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New Exhibition Features Inflated Silk Sculptures

third space gallery and the New Brunswick Museum are pleased to present Marcia Huyer’s Enjoy the View: Inflated Silk Skyscrapers from March 11 to April 25. The opening reception will be held at 1 Market Square on Thursday, March 11, 5 to 7 pm. Free and with refreshments, everyone is welcome.

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Picture billowing, shimmering silk towers inside the New Brunswick Museum. Explore the space and scale of you, the room, and everything. Experience Huyer’s exhibition Enjoy the View, a series of inflated silk sculptures that replicate skyscrapers that have all, at one point or another, laid claim to being the tallest building in the world. In a state of constant droop, these towers spend much of their time scraping the floor, evoking human folly and delusions of grandeur.

Join Marcia Huyer at the New Brunswick Museum for an artist talk at 1 pm Saturday, March 13. Meet artist Huyer and ask about her practice as well as her Klondike and cross-Canada adventures.

third space gallery and the New Brunswick Museum present Marcia Huyer’s Enjoy the View: Inflated Silk Skyscrapers as part of the Passages + Prototypes series, with financial assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts, the NB Department of Wellness, Culture and Sport and the Saint John Community Arts Funding Program. Marcia Huyer also acknowledges support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.

For more information contact:
New Brunswick Museum, Vita Kipping, 643-2358, 1 888 268 9595
www.nbm-mnb.ca
third space gallery, Alison Gayton, 654-7233

Une nouvelle exposition présente des sculptures en soie gonflée

La galerie tiers espace et le Musée du Nouveau-Brunswick ont le plaisir de présenter l’exposition des oeuvres de Marcia Huyer, Profitez de la vue : Gratte-ciel de soie gonflée, du 11 mars au 25 avril. La réception d’inauguration, ouverte au public, aura lieu le jeudi 11 mars, de 17 h à 19 h, au 1 Market Square. Entrée gratuite et rafraîchissements.

Des tours en soie se gonflent et chatoient au Musée du Nouveau-Brunswick! Elles vous permettent d’explorer l’espace et l’échelle de votre corps, de la pièce et de tout. C’est Profitez de la vue, une exposition à découvrir. Les sculptures en soie gonflée créées par Marcia Huyer représentent des gratte-ciel qui ont tous été, à un moment donné, l’immeuble le plus haut du monde. Ces tours s’affaissent constamment et passent le plus clair de leur temps à effleurer le sol, évoquant la bêtise humaine et la folie des grandeurs.

L’artiste, Marcia Huyer, donnera une causerie au Musée du Nouveau-Brunswick le samedi 13 mars à 13 h, une occasion unique de lui poser des questions sur ses créations et ses aventures au Klondike et dans tout le Canada.

La galerie tiers espace et le Musée du Nouveau-Brunswick présentent l’exposition des oeuvres de Marcia Huyer Profitez de la vue : Gratte-ciel de soie gonflée dans le cadre de la série Passages + Prototypes, avec l’aide financière du Conseil des arts du Canada, du ministère du Mieux-être, de la Culture et du Sport du Nouveau-Brunswick et du Programme d’octrois aux arts communautaires de Saint John. Marcia Huyer bénéficie aussi du soutien du Conseil des arts de l’Ontario et du Toronto Arts Council.

Third Space Gallery / Galerie Tiers Espace
42 Princess Street, 2nd floor [Brodie Building]
Saint John, NB E2L 1K2
www.thirdspacegallery.ca

Third Space Gallery in tandem with the New Brunswick Museum presents

PENTEGOET PARK: THE TERRIBLE ONES from January 13 to February 24, 2010.

PENTEGOET PARK: THE TERRIBLE ONES by Goody-B Wiseman is the first exhibit in a four show series, Passages + Prototypes, a partnership between the New Brunswick Museum and Third Space Gallery. In her mini-museum, PENTEGOET PARK, Wiseman documents the life of a fictional colony of Feral Children in artifacts, dioramas, illustrations, audio/video documentation, and stories. The children in this colony were all raised in the wild by adoptive animal parents, they were all subsequently rescued or wrested from the wild and brought to civilization for study and rehabilitation. Pentegoet Park is the place where the feral children who have been able to escape the rigors of socialization have found shelter and solace together.

Goody-B Wiseman uses the conventions of museological display typical to 19^th century vanity museums to give a comprehensive and authoritative view into the curious world of the feral children: Gazelle Girl, Badger Boy, L’Enfant Terrible, Tantramar Tillie, Bog Billy and Coyote Kid. Pentegoet Park, The Terrible Ones investigates age-old questions about the essential nature of man that the archetype of the “Wild Child” inevitably raises.

Third Space President Alison Gayton says that “we are very excited about the Passages + Prototypes series, which we expect will have a synergistic effect on Third Space Gallery, the New Brunswick Museum and all of Saint John.” New Brunswick Museum CEO Jane Fullerton commented that “the Museum is very pleased to work with Third Space Gallery to present this unique exhibition series, which features contemporary sculptural and multi-media works.” Elements of the exhibition will also be displayed in Third Space’s ATM window space at 40 Charlotte Street.

Third Space Gallery receives financial assistance from The Canada Council for the Arts, annual funding support from the Province of New Brunswick Department of Wellness, Culture and Sport and support from the Telegraph Journal, Punch Productions and UNBSJ.

PENTEGOET PARK: THE TERRIBLE ONES

Opening reception on Thursday, January 14 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. All are welcome.

New Brunswick Museum Exhibition Centre, Saint John, NB.

For further information:

Third Space Gallery, Alison Gayton, 654-7233

New Brunswick Museum, Vita Kipping, 643-2358

Not just another Cookie Cutter Christmas. Art auction fundraiser at the new Third Space Gallery office space on Friday December 18th, 2009.

With Christmas fast approaching, Third Space Gallery is excited to present Not Just Another Cookie Cutter Christmas, a special Holiday fundraising event. The public are invited to bid on one of a kind, handmade, ceramic Christmas ornaments, decorated by local artists. It is a great opportunity to pick up a unique gift and support your local artist- run centre.

Bidding by silent auction will begin on Wednesday Dec 16 at the City Market, where the clay cookie decorations will be on display until Thursday the 17th.  A reception will be held Friday, December 18th from 7-9, at the new Third Space office, which is located on the 2nd Floor of the Brodie Building, 42 Princess Street, Saint John, NB. Bidding will close at 9pm, after which winners can take home their decorations. This event is part of the last gallery hop of 2009, so it is not to be missed!

Third Space Gallery / Galerie Tiers-espace, the only artist-run centre for contemporary art in Saint John, is an interdisciplinary exhibition, performance and production space.  We’re committed to representing local, regional and national professional contemporary artists
Third Space Gallery receives project funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, annual funding support from the Province of New Brunswick Department of Wellness, Culture and Sport and support from the Telegraph Journal, Punch Productions and UNBSJ.

The Tongue is the Rudder of Our Ship takes the process of collaboration as its central content. Through the use of maritime semaphore flag signals, Sym Corrigan (Halifax) and Leah Modigliani (New York) produce a rich visual display of information that yet fails to communicate as a satisfying conversation. The artwork reflects the process of trying to create a unique artwork through long distance communication via emails and phone calls, where every potentially strong gesture and creative impulse is lessened by the delays of space and time. The artists’ performative use of semaphore flags set against the backdrop of their separate locations of New York City and Halifax refers to the Maritime regions of the “new” states and provinces of Canada and the USA. (New York, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) while also referencing their long history of trade. In this way The Tongue is the Rudder of Our Ship becomes a metaphor for both personal and economic relationships, language, and the difficulties of negotiating outcomes that are beneficial for all parties concerned.

The Tongue is the Rudder of Our Ship is presented as final exhibition of the Interurbanicity series for which Third Space received project funding from the Canada Council for the Arts. Third Space also receives annual funding support from the Province of New Brunswick Department of Wellness, Culture and Sport and support from the Telegraph Journal, Punch Productions and UNBSJ.

The only artist-run centre for contemporary art in Saint John, Third Space Gallery / Galerie Tiers-espace is an interdisciplanary exhibition, performance and production space committed to representing local, regional and national professional contemporary artists. This exhibit will be on display 24/7 at the Third Space Galley window at 40 Charlotte St.

Join us Friday June 26^th from 7-9pm at the Infusion Tea Room at 41 Charlotte Street for the exhibition opening. Bring a bottle wine and come out to enjoy an evening of art. This exhibit will be on display at the Third Space Gallery window vitirine from June 26^th to August 7^th.

Join us Friday May 08 between 5pm-9pm for our first ever Membership Drive Party at Happinez Wine Bar! (As part of the Gallery Hop) Art & Wine = Happy Gallery Members.

Since 2005, Third Space Galley, an artist-run centre, has taken direction from it’s members. We sit on committees, design posters, brochures, websites and catalogues; help install exhibitions; research and write grants; help fundraise; build networks and connections with other artists and galleries across the country; and volunteer. But if this all sounds like work, you can just simply purchase a membership to support the arts to feel pleased with yourself. Which is completely acceptable with us!

The first 100 members to sign up will have their name entered into a draw to win an original piece of artwork done by Third Space members Amy Ash and Jacqueline Collomb (Mixed media: hand made paper, acrylic, polyurethane, on 8”x8” canvas).

And if that isn’t reason enough to flip open your wallet to support the arts: purchase a membership and receive a complimentary glass of wine from Happinez Wine Bar!

The only artist-run centre for contemporary art in Saint John, Third Space Gallery / Galerie Tiers-espace is an interdisciplinary exhibition, performance and production space committed to representing local, regional and national professional contemporary artists. Become a member and contribute to the artistic vitality of Saint John.

For more information contact John Marshall Third Space Gallery coordinator. www.thirdspacegallery.ca Phone: 696-0862 e-mail: tiersespace@gmail.com

Troy Ouellette is digging through the ashes of time.  Valley of Ashes: Time Capsule Project is the latest installation on view at Third Space Gallery from
May 8th – June 19th, 2009.

Using the Third Space window vitrine to house a sculptural time capsule and audio installation, Troy David Ouellette looks to evoke the future by mining the past.  A Valley of Ashes deals with preservation and the idea of archiving industrial achievements of the 20th century.

Ouellette’s time capsule is modeled after one that was created for the 1939 World’s Fair in New York by Westinghouse Electric, designed to be opened in 5000 years.  To prevent the time capsule from getting lost, Westinghouse distributed an archival book to thousands of libraries around the world entitled The Book of Record, which contained instructions on how to find the capsule, how to open it, even how to decipher the English of 1939 for an imagined human audience of the year 6939. The Book of Record becomes the dystopic twin to the utopic desire to preserve modernist ideals.

Ironically, the vessel of posterity was buried in a part of New York that was created from the City’s former dumping grounds. Known as the Corona Ash Dumps, it was popularized as “a valley of ashes” in F. Scott  Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.

Ouellette’s time capsule, both phallic and militaristic in shape, frames the digital remnants of a recording reclaimed while Ouellette was rummaging through a local recycling depot. The recording, “Musical Masterworks of the 20th Century,” becomes a marker for the inevitability of the defunct productions of the past, suggesting the disposability of culture itself through technological progression and fashionable production.

Ouellette received his MFA from the University of Windsor and a BFA from NSCAD. He currently resides in London, ON.

Valley of Ashes is presented as part of the Interurbanicity series for which Third Space received project funding from the Canada Council for the Arts. Third Space also receives annual funding support from the Province of New Brunswick Department of Wellness, Culture and Sport and support from the Telegraph Journal, Punch Productions and UNBSJ.

The only artist-run centre for contemporary art in Saint John, Third Space Gallery / Galerie Tiers-espace is an interdisciplinary exhibition, performance and production space committed to representing local, regional and national professional contemporary artists.  This exhibit will be on display 24/7 at the Third Space Galley window at 40 Charlotte St.

For more information contact John Marshall, Third Space Gallery coordinator.
www.thirdspacegallery.ca   Phone: 696-0862  e-mail: tiersespace (at) gmail.com

More information on Troy Ouellette can be found at:

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Eleanor King is getting dirty for her artwork! Cuppa Cups Collection is a performance and installation on view at Third Space Gallery from February 27^th – April 10^th.  Opening Gala from 6-8pm at The Infusion Tea Room 41 Charlotte St.

Eleanor King’s Cuppa Cups Collection is an installation made entirely from paper cups collected from the trash on the streets. A lightweight and ubiquitous object, countless paper and Styrofoam cups are trashed daily, making them an ideal symbol of excess, an index of waste, and a perfect material for minimalist sculpture.

Cuppa Cups Collection is fueled by a desire to create with nothing but waste material. This project is satisfying both artistically and socially, building sustainable sculpture and demonstrating environmental activism.

“It’s a political act for me” says King, “I dig in garbage cans in public areas, fishing out seemingly worthless objects.  I’m diverting cups from trash and transforming them to art material.  I love making sculpture, but I did not want to make any more new objects in the world. Starting Cuppa Cups was a way to facilitate making new installation work and satisfying my environmental concerns simultaneously. I hope people will see me and the work and it will remind them to carry a travel mug!”

Eleanor King is an interdisciplinary artist who works with site-specific installation incorporating elements of audio, video, photography, and sculpture. Her work fuses found materials in a playful way to critique social behaviours, investigating consumer and tourist cultures. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has participated in residency programs in Canada and the US. Eleanor teaches in the Media Arts department at NSCAD University and holds the position of Exhibitions Coordinator at Anna Leonowens Gallery. She is also a member of indie-rock bands The Just Barelys and The Got to Get Got.

Cuppa Cup Collection is presented as part of the Interurbanicity series for which Third Space received project funding from the Canada Council for the Arts. Third Space also receives annual funding support from the Province of New Brunswick Department of Wellness, Culture and Sport and support from the Telegraph Journal, Punch Productions and UNBSJ.

The only artist-run centre for contemporary art in Saint John, Third Space Gallery / Galerie Tiers-espace is an interdisciplanary exhibition, performance and production space committed to representing local, regional and national professional contemporary artists.  This exhibit will be on display 24/7 at the Third Space Galley window at 40 Charlotte St.

For more information contact John Marshall, Third Space Gallery coordinator.

Phone: 696-0862
e-mail: tiersespace@gmail.com

Donna Akrey
Third Space Vitrine
40 Charlotte Street
December 6, 2008– January 25, 2009

Celebrate the GALLERY HOP Saturday, December 6 12noon – 6pm

Third Space Gallery is pleased to present Interurbanicity, a series of exhibitions that take the city as source material. The second exhibition in the series, Commerce, is a series of sculptures and video called Loonieland and Stock, by Montreal-based visual artist Donna Akrey.

Loonieland is comprised of seemingly mass-produced sculptures and a looped video of a hand reaching towards products on the shelves of a discount store. The hand reaches out to take but never does. Over and over the hand reaches and comes back empty.

It is a futile gesture and it is endless. The video is presented as a small rear-screen projection inside the window space, playing 24/7. Surrounding the video are display shelves with composite sculptures made from dollar store products verging on the surreal.

Stock is comprised of altered grocery store products that are arranged on display shelves to read like poetry, prose or haiku. The shelves will mimic those commonly found in grocery stores, built to fit the space. Both works respond to the ambiguous relationship we have with consumer culture. Akrey playfully teases out the relationships between the obsessive urge to shop with banal products that speak to us as if some kind of Oracle.

Third Space Gallery received a Canada Council project grant for Interurbanicity, and receives funding from the NB Department of Wellness, Culture and Sport. The gallery thanks its’ members and volunteers, as well as ongoing support from Punch Productions, The University of New Brunswick and the Telegraph Journal.

Third Space Vitrine

40 Charlotte Street
December 6, 2008– January 25, 2009

Contact Coordinator John Marshall, (phone number) for more information.
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PICTORIAL PROPOGANDA: Public Art and Landscape Painting

Felicity Tayler

Third Space Vitrine

40 Charlotte Street

October 17 – November 30, 2008

PERFORMANCE during the GALLERY HOP October 17, Market Square

“With the exception of love there is perhaps nothing else by which people of all kinds are more united than by their pleasure in a good view” — Kenneth Clark, Landscape into Art (London : John Murray, 1949), 74.

Third Space Gallery is pleased to present Interurbanicity, a series of exhibitions that take the city as source material. The first exhibition in the series is a conceptual public art performance called Pictorial Propaganda, by Montreal-based visual artist Felicity Tayler, who uses the archetype of landscape painting as a pretext to create relationships. The work is an informal survey of the artistic engagement with the general public, the role of visual imagery as a propaganda device, and a reflection on alternative value systems.

This fall, the project will retrace the history of the New Brunswick Museum and the Owens Art Gallery from Saint John to Sackville. As they both can claim to be the “oldest” — the oldest continuing museum in the case of the former, and the oldest university art gallery for the latter, Tayler is interested in these histories and its impact on artists and artistic taste in the region. In Saint John she will set up a portable easel and reproduce landscape paintings from the New Brunswick Museum’s collection in the indoor mall of Market Square during the Gallery Hop on October 17. This will open a space for dialogue between the artists and the residents of the city; they’ll even have a chance to trade something with her for one of the paintings that result from the performance. Follow the project at pictorialpropaganda.ca

Third Space Gallery received a Canada Council project grant for Interurbanicity, and receives funding from the NB Department of Wellness, Culture and Sport. The gallery thanks its’ members and volunteers, as well as ongoing support from Punch Productions, The University of New Brunswick, the Telegraph Journal and Picaroons.

What: Felicity Tayler painting performance (Pictorial Propaganda)

When: Friday October 17 in the Market Square Atrium.

Exhibition at Third Space Gallery, 40 Charlotte Street until November 22.

Third Space Gallery presents two new exhibitions opening on August 15, 2008. 

SKY VESSELS, by Jennifer Dorner is an exhibition of paintings wherein the artist builds an artificial sky panel by panel. The paintings include minuscule elements that highlight the bizarre attributes of leisure activities emblematic of Western culture. These detailed representations are combined with transport vehicles to act as a catalyst for disrupting the painting field. Dorner’s paintings are exceptionally presented at the third floor of the New Brunswick Museum, Market Square, until September 20, 2008.

In the fourth and final chapter of SHAPESHIFTERS, artist Stephan Schulz will install a series of traffic-activated drums on the side of an Uptown Saint John building. Pedestrians and automobiles passing by will trigger a rhythmic march based on their movements. Schulz will also present a performance and video where the artist literally “goes to work” by engaging in conversation with strangers. Drumline is installed at 78-82 King Street (former Tapps Building), and Equally distant from both sides can be seen in The Bargain! Shop’s King Street display window. Both installations continue until August 31, 2008.
 
The opening reception for both exhibitions will take place at the New Brunswick Museum at 6pm on August 15, 2008. Both artists will be present, and an introduction to the exhibits will be given by Peter Dykhuis, Director/Curator of the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax. 

Jennifer Dorner, originally from BC, received her BFA from the University of Ottawa, and MFA from the University of Western Ontario. Previously Director of eyelevel gallery in Halifax, NS, she is now based in Montreal, QC, pursuing her multi-disciplinary artistic career and as National Director of the Independent Media Arts Alliance. She has taught at the University of Western Ontario, Dundas Valley School of Art and has a strong passion for advocating for the arts with an emphasis on artist-run culture.

Originally from Berlin, Stephan Schulz received a Masters in Interaction Design from the UdK in Berlin (2004) and an MFA in Media Arts from NSCAD University in Halifax (2007). Schulz is a multi disciplinary artist who uses electronic media to intervene into public space by combining elements of performance, sculpture and social interaction. He makes use of micro-controllers, custom-made software and repurposed consumer devices. He currently lives in Montreal and works for Antimodular Research, a new media art production studio headed by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.

 New Brunswick Museum Gallery hours:
 Mon – Wed and Fri: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Thursday: 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sunday and Holidays: noon - 5 p.m.
 
Third Space wises to acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of New Brunswick, and the Saint John Community Arts Program, as well as vital support from its local partners within the commmunity: the New Brunswick Museum, Historica Developments, the Telegraph Journal, Picaroons Traditional Ales, Punch Productions and The Bargain! Shop.