Traffic Talks - Ron Terada in conversation with Nicholas Brown

Presented by The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery

Traffic Talks
Ron Terada in conversation with Nicholas Brown

Wednesday September 22, 2010
5:30 – 6:30 pm

University of Toronto Art Centre
University College, University of Toronto
15 King’s College Circle
Free and open to the public

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The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery in partnership with the University of Toronto Art Centre presents the first in a series of Traffic Talks, conversations between artists, critics, art historians and curators on the history and legacy of Conceptual Art in Canada.

Vancouver-based contemporary artist Ron Terada will be discussing how the history of Conceptual Art has shaped his work and that of contemporary art in Vancouver.  Terada will be joined in conversation by Toronto-based curator Nicholas Brown who has worked extensively with the newest generation of Vancouver-based artists.  Their conversation will take place in the Vancouver section of the exhibition Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 – 1980, currently on view at the University of Toronto Art Galleries.

Grant Arnold, Audain Curator of British Columbia Art and the Vancouver Art Gallery writes, “Conceptual art surfaced in Vancouver in the mid 1960s and played a key role in drawing international attention to the city’s art scene during the late 60s and early 70s.  Its legacy – its challenge to the autonomy of the art object and the truth value of images – continues to inform the work of many of the city’s most widely known artists.”

Ron Terada was born in 1969 in Vancouver, British Columbia.  After a short spell working as an apprentice bow maker, he began his career as an artist.  He studied at Emily Carr College of Art & Design in Vancouver between 1987 and 1991 and still lives and works in Vancouver.  He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Hayward Gallery (London, UK), Ikon Gallery (Birmingham, UK) and the Vancouver Art Gallery, and his work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including Power Alone at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam), the 6th Shanghai Biennale (Shanghai), and General Ideas: Rethinking Conceptual Art 1990-2005 at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art (San Francisco).  His exhibition, Ron Terada: Who I Think I Am, will be presented at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery in the winter of 2011.

Nicolas Brown currently lives in Toronto and is the curator of Red Bull 381 Projects on Queen St. West. He graduated with an MA in Art History from York University. He is the arts editor of Color Magazine (Vancouver) and has contributed writing for other arts publications including C Magazine, Fillip, and Hunter and Cook.   

Traffic Talks are financially supported by the Hal Jackman Foundation and are offered free to the public.

Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965–1980 is curated jointly by Grant Arnold (Vancouver Art Gallery), Catherine Crowston (Art Gallery of Alberta), Barbara Fischer (Justina M. Barnicke Gallery), Michèle Thériault with Vincent Bonin (Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal), and Jayne Wark (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design).

Organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery, in partnership with the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery (Concordia University) and Halifax, INK.