The Estevan Art Gallery and Museum (EAGM) is inviting the public to its upcoming opening night reception.
The event will be held Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. It is free to attend and all ages are welcome. Artist Lisa Wood, whose exhibit Consumed will be on display, is scheduled to be in attendance.
In her artist statement, Wood said her artistic practice has documented and reflected on social interaction and ritual during events when food and drink become a key component to social success.
“I am interested in the use of food as either a draw, luring people in with the promise of being fed, or a soothing balm, making an otherwise difficult interaction easier. I expose tensions between how we act publicly and how we feel privately.
“I am interested in how we navigate the relationship between being inside or outside of societal or physical structures. With that in mind I look for ephemeral experiences that bring out joy and revelry or social expectations and conformity.”
She has documented a range of events including dinner parties, family meals, a wake, a cafeteria meal, an art opening and a wing night with stationary time-lapse photography.
The other exhibit is V.I.P. Portrait Gallery by Andrzej Maciejewski. In his statement, Maciejewski said this series is a study of form, a collection of diverse shapes and textures.
“I have created many such collections and I often choose mundane objects, like in this case potatoes. This gives me the freedom to look at them in an abstract way or to interpret them on my own, without being limited by the overwhelming context, which often happens when you choose objects that are too obviously important or unusual.”
He was drawn to potatoes in particular because of their commonly unappreciated diversity created by nature, not by human artfulness. For his potatoes, he chose to make portraits rather than simply still-life images, and he gave them names to emphasize their individual uniqueness.
The two exhibits will be at the EAGM until Nov. 8.
