Fall 2024 Exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Guelph

AGG’s Fall 2024 season launches with two events. Join us Thursday, September 5 at 6 pm for the opening party celebrating Entrelazados: Justin Favela and an introduction to the exhibition by the Las Vegas-based visiting artist. Emerging from his own heritage and identity as a Guatemalan-Mexican American born and based in Las Vegas, Favela’s work remixes cultural traditions, spectacle, and art history as a way to amplify the interwoven influences that shape personal experiences as well as collective narratives of migration and community. read more >

Thursday, September 12 at 6:30 pm, AGG launches three new exhibitions exploring identity and connection though diverse artistic practices: Do You Remember Love, curated by Native Art Department International comprised of Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan, and two exhibitions curated by Dallas Fellini, winner of the 2024 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators – Some kind of we and Robert Flack: Eternal Transcendent. read more >

For both events, all are welcome; refreshments and cash bar available. Artists and curators will be in attendance.

Entrelazados: Justin Favela

September 5 – December 29, 2024
Curated by Shauna McCabe

In Entrelazados, Guatemalan-Mexican-American artist Justin Favela explores notions of identity, place, and authenticity through his signature remixes of popular culture and Latinx experience. At the core of his art practice is an investigation of traditional Mexican or Latin American craft, particularly cartoneria or piñata making, as a way to probe the interwoven influences on personal and collective memory. Creating sculptures and installations that fuse references to contemporary culture, lived traditions, and art history, Favela adapts familiar materials like cardboard, paper, tape and glue to transform elements of everyday life, effectively reimagining spectacle as a hybrid space that transcends genres and forms, time and space, and collapses any semblance of high and low cultures. read more >

Organized by the Art Gallery of Guelph in partnership with Musagetes. Presented with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario, and Guelph Community Foundation’s Musagates Fund, as well as promotional assistance from the Embassy of Mexico in Canada and Mexican Consulate General in Toronto.

Do You Remember Love

September 12 – December 15, 2024
Curated by Native Art Department International

Do You Remember Love brings together artist Susan Mogul’s 1997 video I Stare at You and Dream with a collection of quillboxes from the Tower Hill Museum in Parry Sound. Juxtaposing these disparate forms of expression, the installation draws out themes across the two bodies of work, including women’s identity, family, relationships, and the quest for home. Filmed in Mogul’s Highland Park neighbourhood of Los Angeles, the film offers an intimate, intertwined narrative that is rooted in shared history and enduring relationships, as is the collection of quillboxes. Posing the question “do you remember love,” the exhibition positions the handmade quill and birchbark boxes as not only expressions of love but as acts of love for self, place, and one another that are to be recalled, enacted, and remembered. read more >

Organized and presented by the Art Gallery of Guelph with the support of the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario, through the Curatorial Projects: Indigenous and Culturally Diverse program.

Some kind of we

September 12 – December 15, 2024
Curated by Dallas Fellini, 2024 recipient of the Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators

Some kind of we brings together works that approach t4t sensibilities, emphasizing networks of trans relationality, self-representation, cross-generational inheritance, desire, and love. A shorthand that emerged in the early 2000s, t4t was first used in Craigslist personals by transgender and transsexual people seeking relationships with other trans people. Today, t4t has come to encompass not only circuits of desire, but also practices of solidarity and mutual aid within trans communities. Some kind of we includes video and print works by B.G-Osborne, Daze Jefferies, Cleopatria Peterson, Xanthra Phillippa MacKay, and Mirha-Soleil Ross, paralleled by an exhibition circulated by mail, emphasizing the connective role of distributed media such as video and self-published zines and newsletters within trans histories of pre- and early-internet community-building. read more >

Organized by the Art Gallery of Guelph and presented with the support of the Centre Wellington Community Foundation’s Middlebrook Social Innovation Fund as well as the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario. B.G-Osborne gratefully acknowledges funding from ArtsNL.

Robert Flack: Eternal Transcendent

September 12 – December 15, 2024
Curated by Dallas Fellini, 2024 recipient of the Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators

Drawing from AGG’s collection, Eternal Transcendent highlights a selection of photographic works by Robert Flack (Guelph, 1957-1993) that manipulate representation through analog processes to create assemblages that suggest bodily malleability and transformation. Documenting a moment in which Flack was coming to terms with his own mortality after his HIV seroconversion in 1988 and shortly before he succumbed to the virus in 1993, they convey a reverence for the more-than-corporeal and a yearning for healing – something governments and medical institutions profoundly failed to provide during the AIDS epidemic. read more >

Presented by the Art Gallery of Guelph with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

Image credits: Justin Favela, Recuérdame (detail), 2018, paper and glue on wall. Courtesy of Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling. Photo: Michael Palma Mir; Susan Mogul, I Stare at You and Dream (production still), 1997, video, 56:40 mins. Photo: Rhoda Blate Mogul. Video: Courtesy of the artist and Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay, Gendertroublemakers (digital still), 1993, video, 20:00. Courtesy of Vtape.

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