Last Night at the Chestnut
October 20 to November 25, 2010
Opening reception Wednesday, Oct 20 at 5pm with an artist talk at 6pm – free
Music by Slate Pacific, Play Guitar, Ten Kens at 8pm – $6 admission
Immony Men’s installation Last Night at the Chestnut is the result of a two week residency. The artist’s goal was to create an exhibition that reflects the history of the building Gallery Connexion is housed in. Using research from the Provincial Archives including transcribed interviews from factory workers, books on the Chestnut Canoe Factory, and a compilation of memories and stories of local community members including David Brewer, Donnie Fraser, Brad Cross, Janice Wright Cheney, Eric Hill, and Montrealers Greg Webber and Tanya Duffy, Immony will present a social and historical perspective of the building using memories, stories, facts, images and objects in an intriguing installation.
Immony is a Canadian visual artist currently based in Montreal. He is a recent University of Windsor MFA graduate, and completed his BFA at Concordia University majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies.
Immony’s focus is on working between the lines of fact and fiction. Labor intensity is a strong element in his installation art practice. “My primary goal is to touch on everyday personal issues that viewers can relate with. My interests lie in the intimate relationships that exist within different social cycles. The separation between experiment and experience in my work is paper-thin.
Immony is currently working with Maegan Broadhurst on “Can you hear the city whispering?” an exploration of Winnipeg’s cityscape. “We’ve decided to include the general public into our research process, by asking them to locate their favourite and disliked place within the city. The information collected has given us the opportunity to visit common and personal geographic locations. Our primary goal was to discover and share these sites with the community.” They will be explaining how they’ve used the city as a research platform and its inhabitants as collaborators at the “My city’s still breathing” symposium.
“Taking Care of Business,” a previous body of work by Immony involving the painstaking installation of post-it notes on gallery walls, has been shown in the following artist-run centers over the last 3 years: Khyber Center of the Arts in Halifax N.S., Eastern Edge in St. John’s NFLD, Warren G. Flowers and the VAV Gallery in Montreal QC, 809 Gallery in Calgary AB, and Artspace in Peterborough On.
From its inception in 1984, Gallery Connexion, a not-for-profit organization with charitable status, has supported politically and socially engaged art through a range of programming initiatives such as exhibitions, performances, special projects, and workshops. Gallery Connexion promotes contemporary Canadian and international artists, emerging and established, from diverse cultural backgrounds
For more information, contact Immony Men at immonymen@gmail.com
Gallery Connexion is an artist-run center in Fredericton, NB and presents contemporary art practices, including visual, performance, music, literary, and inter-disciplinary art. Gallery Connexion is seeking an Executive Director who is a creative innovator, has a passion for the visual arts and is committed to high quality, dynamic programming. As the successful candidate you will [...]
Artists and curators are invited to submit proposals for upcoming exhibitions in the Rick Burns Gallery, Gallery Connexion’s main exhibition space. Proposals will be for March 2013 to February 2014 programming. Deadline for proposals: March 31, 2012. Email submissions must be received by 9pm. Post submissions (on CD/DVD only) must be postmarked by the deadline [...]
Gallery Connexion’s Annual General Meeting will be held at 7 pm on Thursday, March 29, 2012 at Gallery Connexion, 440 York Street, Fredericton, NB (entrance from the main parking lot at the junction of Victoria and York Streets) Please join us for a review of the past year’s activities, an overview of the year to [...]
