Core Samples: Selections from the Collection

February 25 – April 12, 2025

With works by Vikky Alexander, Geneviève Cadieux, Miryam Charles, Sorel Cohen, Brendan Fernandes, Yves Gaucher, Betty Goodwin, Angela Grauerholz, Nancy Herbert, Holly King, Roy Kiyooka, Suzy Lake, Rita Letendre, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Kenneth Lochhead, Naomi London, Guido Molinari, Katie Ohe, Francine Simonin, Barbara Steinman, Takao Tanabe, Nell Tenhaaf and Claude Tousignant

Archival Research & Overlooked Quebec Pop Art in the Collection

Presentation by Paige Suhl

Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 12:30 PM
In English
Free, at the Gallery

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Never Was a Man

As of February 24, 2025

A project by Swapnaa Tamhane

Never Was a Man draws on two sentences from the suicide letter of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit scholar and PhD student of sociology at Hyderabad Central University, transforming them into a wood block print. Vemula’s last words became a symbol of Dalit resistance, shedding light on caste-based discrimination in universities and leading to mass student protests across India.

Nicole Burisch is joining the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery today as its new director. Burisch, an accomplished curator and Concordia alumna, brings over 20 years of experience in arts leadership, programming and advocacy to this role.

“I am deeply honoured to take on this role at the Ellen Art Gallery,” Burisch says. “University art galleries have a unique position in the contemporary art landscape, they have the capacity to support in-depth artistic and curatorial research while also being important spaces for experimentation and risk-taking.

The Gallery team warmly welcomes her.

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The Gallery welcomes Paige Suhl for a curatorial internship during the Winter 2025 term.

Paige is a first-year master’s student in the Department of Art History at Concordia University. She holds a bachelor’s degree in art history and English literature from McGill University. Her research focuses on contemporary art, curatorial and museum practices, and public engagement with art. As part of her internship, she is studying the work of women artists associated with the Pop Art movement who are represented in the Gallery’s permanent collection. Her research aims to contextualize their work within the Quebec Pop Art movement of the 1960s and contribute to broader re-evaluations of women’s role in Pop Art.

DEPRESSION, PART 2. ECONOMY

Dive into the second segment of the TERMS program, exploring the concept of “depression,” this time through the prism of the economic crisis of the 1930s. Read Andrée Lévesque’s essay, a professor in the Department of History at McGill University, shedding light on the repercussions of the Great Depression in Montreal. Explore a series of photographs taken by Canadian artist Margaret Watkins (1884-1969) during a stay in London amidst the Crisis years, along with the meticulous interpretation by Debra Antoncic, art historian, curator, and Director of the Riverbrink Art Museum.

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