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Colourschool Artist in Residence: Gwenessa Lam
Beginning in the month of April, Gwenessa Lam will participate in colourschool’s artist in residence program. As part of her residency, Gwenessa will spend Friday mornings engaged in a process-based drawing project, which unfolds over the course of several months, if not years.The project takes as its starting point mapping as an identifier of place and space. Here, Gwenessa employs the familiar forms of aerial photography and topographic maps, but through a vocabulary of blurs and erasures that ultimately disturbs conventional representations of place produced under surveillance. Although she sources images of sites from Internet mapping programs, Gwenessa uses these maps to locate places she already knows how to find because she has inhabited them. In this way, her drawings explore the tension between intimate senses and experiences of place vis-a-vis parallel and less personal representations.As part of her residency, Gwenessa invites participants to submit addresses (or intersections) of places, which are significant to them. From these sites, Gwenessa will create a new series of drawings using similar concerns. To submit an address to the project, email: info@colourschool.org.
- host:
- Gwenessa Lam
- date & time:
- April 13th, 2007 at 10 am
- location:
- 6363 Stores Road Studio 2A University of British Columbia
- contact:
- [info@colourschool.org]
Host Biographies
Gwenessa Lam is a contemporary artist currently based in Vancouver whose work has been exhibited both in Canada and in the US. Her work has appeared in shows at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Queens Museum of Art, and Wooster Arts Space, among other venues. As an instructor, Gwenessa has taught courses at both ECIAD in Vancouver and NYU, where she received her MFA in 2004, the year she became a fellow at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.