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Sightings is a satellite exhibition module created in 2012 and located on the metro level of the EV Building. It features curatorial and artist projects. The success of this initiative lead the Gallery to extend Sightings into 2013. Throughout 2012 only projects by students in Fine Arts were featured. However, in 2013 we have opened up the “cube” to projects from the larger Montreal cultural community.

Temporary exhibition display module located on the metro level of the EV Building

SIGHTINGS VI: Pacific Pilgrims
Roy K. Kiyooka, Black Ring, 1965. Acrylic on canvas.
Collection of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University. Gift of C.R. Crowley Ltd., 1965.
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March 7 – June 30, 2013

A project by Joanne Hui
With an artwork by Roy K. Kiyooka

Pacific Pilgrims is an exhibition that foregrounds the travel memoirs of Roy K. Kiyooka and Joanne J.Y. Hui as politicized creative practices that re-situate Asian Canadian1 identity within new cultural flows of broader, transnational global forces. More specifically, both artists look back at troubling constructions of Asian identity in Canada from their respective travels through the coastlands of Honshu/Osaka, Japan on the cusp of the 1970s, and Shanghai/Beijing, the People’s Republic of China into the 21st century.

Roy Kenzie Kiyooka was born in Moose Jaw in 1926 and died in Vancouver in 1994. Initially a practitioner of geometric abstraction and sculptor he abandoned painting in 1970 and became a multidisciplinary artist critical of the institutional framework. He worked with photography, montage, poetry, music and film. As a teacher he taught in universities across Canada and was particularly linked with the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of British Columbia. He taught at Sir George Williams University (Concordia) from 1965 to 1970 and exhibited at Galerie du Siècle along with other Montreal Plasticiens painters.

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Joanne J.Y. Hui was born in Hong Kong and now lives in Montreal. She is an artist and PhD candidate at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University. Her research investigates concepts of identity in comic art, particularly how graphic arts addresses culturally-specific and historical conditions of immigration.

1Not exactly the product of multicultural tolerance, Asian Canadian suggests a formation that embodies contradictions that have been enacted in the politics of difference in Canada (Miki 10).

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The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery’s contemporary exhibition program is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.