Exhibitions
Fire and Collateral: The Aftermath of War
May 2, 2014 – July 1, 2014
Nothing in our modern world prepares you for the traumas of war; the violence and suffering challenge hope and trust in humanity. The exposure bruises the soul. Travelling to Sierra Leone shortly after its long and brutal civil war shocked me, but what I experienced there also inspired me to try to penetrate this darkness and reveal the remarkable…
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(Re)Constructed Warship: Technical Speclations of Grand Naval Monuments
May 2, 2014 – July 1, 2014
A test of skill in the service of painstaking historical accuracy meets total fabrication and a disregard of any semblance of literal depiction. The works of Richard Edwards and Chris Flodberg clash in their artistic approach to the same issue: How does an artist, at the mercy of human scale, render monumental emotionally charged machinery “realist…
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Forging a Nation: Canada Goes to War
January 22, 2014 – April 7, 2014
2014 marks the centennial of the start of the First World War and is also the 100th anniversary of the formation of many of the regiments that were mobilized for this conflict. Canadians’ individual and collective contributions and sacrifices to this war changed Canadian history and continue to shape notions of Canadian national identity to this da…
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Eleven Women Facing War
August 8, 2013 – December 2, 2013
Eleven Women Facing War tells eleven stories of women from Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Colombia, the Balkans, Israel and the Palestinian territories. Internationally renowned photographer Nick Danziger initially photographed these women in conflict zones for an International Committee of the Red Cross study in 2001. Ten years later, he set out to fi…
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Defending a Nation: Canada and the Korean War
June 25, 2013 – December 1, 2013
Canada devotes a significant amount of attention to its living veterans from the Second World War, and to that conflict in general, but those from the Korean War have not been given the full recognition that they deserve. This exhibit will tell the story of the major battles that Canadians were involved in during the war in their context as a Unite…
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SEEING Soldiering: In Theatre With Those Who Serve
May 13, 2013 – July 17, 2013
Those who appear in the works of Althea Thauberger are co-creators. Thauberger gives her subjects the opportunity to participate in the process of the making of their pictures—to be seen on their own terms. In SEEING Soldiering, the performative and theatrical nature of Thauberger’s work draws back the curtain on those who serve in the military, re…
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Walls Between People
January 14, 2013 – April 14, 2013
Exposing the contradictions found in an open and globalized world, this exhibition focuses on the use of graffiti on contemporary barriers in: Cyprus North Korea and South Korea India and Pakistan Northern Ireland Israel and Palestine The Spanish Enclaves Mexico and The United States The Western Sahara Since 2005, Alexandra Novosseloff and Frank Ne…
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A Brush With War: Military Art From Korea to Afghanistan
June 29, 2012 – December 2, 2012
The Founders’ Gallery was very proud to have hosted artist Gertrude Kearns for a lecture on October 25, 2012. She spoke about her paintings depicting The Somalia Affair of 1993, the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and Canadian soldiers after a 2006 suicide bomber attack in Kandahar. In case you missed it you can download her talk here. Canada’s personal, dr…
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