Over & Over & Over Again, Art Opening – Barrie

Date:
February 15, 2024
Time:
5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Location:
Campus Gallery, D140

Opening Reception: Thursday, Feb. 15 from 5 to 8 p.m.

Artist Talk: Thursday, March 14 at 11a.m.

Art Crawl with The MacLaren Art Centre: Thursday, March 21 at 11 a.m. at The Campus Gallery to start

The Campus Gallery is located in room 140, D building (Helen and Arch Brown Centre for Design and Visual Arts) at the Barrie Campus, Georgian College, 1 Georgian Drive.

Hours of Operation:

Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.

Over & Over & Over Again

An Exhibition of Work by Carl Beam and Anong Migwans Beam

Co-Curated by Anong Migwans Beam and Virginia Eichhorn

One of the many things instilled by artist Carl Beam to his daughter, Anong Migwans Beam, is that an artist must keep working through their ideas. They need to commit to the process. And that means to explore images and ideas over and over and over again. The works by Carl Beam, from the Georgian College Collection, were a means for Carl to allow for the dissemination of his ideas in widespread ways. They deal with the environment, politics, history, and culture. In how they were created they go against the self-serving needs of aggressive greed that is evident in much of the art world and how it operates.

The works by Anong which are included with this exhibition create a dialogue with her father’s work but which also evidence her own strong voice and viewpoint. She also works through ideas – over and over and over again – and we see that commitment to her ideas and process in everything that she undertakes. Viewers of this exhibition are invited to challenge themselves, to make connection to the works on personal and global levels. The themes and messages presented in this exhibition merit one’s attention – and there is an opportunity to visit and revisit what is on view. Over and over and over again.

This exhibit runs from February 15 – March 24, 2024.

This exhibition is in partnership with the Indigenous Resource Centre, Anishnaabemowin and Program Development Department and the Museum and Gallery Studies Department.