The University of Toronto Art Centre is pleased to exhibit the thesis projects of the 2014 Master of Visual Studies graduate students:



Golboo Amani

Ido Govrin

Brendan George Ko

Elyse Portal

Please join us for the opening exhibition from 6:00 - 8:00pm.

This year, the four graduating MVS students have used very diverse materials and even more divergent methodologies to produce their art. Brendan George Ko's mixed media installation Aloha considers the intangibility of our sense of "place" with video, photography, and postcards. Ido Govrin keeps a poetic manuscript close but still just out of reach to the view, his delecate sculptural audio installations tantalizing us with its proximity. Using a dream journey as one of her methodologies, Elyse Portal enlists intuition in her quest for an art that heals as it reveals in Maeria medica. And Golboo Amani caroms us into the worlds of gaming with Trade Citiy: Toronto beta, her interactive role-playing project that posits the idea of free exhange amongst actual sites in the city to be explored — and accumulated as knowledge — by real players over the course of the exhibition itself.

Full colour catalogue with texts by Julia Abraham.

Also opening the same evening, steps from the UTAC:

An Introduction to the Language of Partial Seduction: Works by David Buchan

Curated by Sabrina Maher

April 1 - May 3, 2014

Opening reception: Tuesday, April 1, 7:00 - 9:00pm

Curator's Tour: Saturday, April 5, 3:00pm

Please visit the accompanying MVS Curatorial Studies thesis exhibitions, Communicating Vessels, curated by Corrie Jackson at the Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga, from April 6-May 11; and Why Can't Minimal, curated by John G. Hampton, to open Fall 2014 at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery.