[BCMA] An Evening with Kent Monkman - Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 7pm

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An Evening with Kent Monkman
Thursday, March 14, 7:00 ­ 9:00pm
Fletcher Challenge Theatre (#1900), SFU Vancouver
515 Hastings Street, Vancouver
Admission by donation (suggested $5.00)

Join Kent Monkman on a journey into his art and life as an artist.

He says of his art practice:  ³I think my work is primarily informed by an
attempt to define that space between the two cultures,² (European and
Aboriginal). Kent adds, ³It¹s a very similar sort of reclaiming of
stereotypes that have been harmful, you sort of take them back, you own
them, you reclaim them and then you present them from a position of power
and that¹s really what I wanted to do.²

He is known for exploring the sexual tension in that space ­ with the sexual
power of characters he creates and embodies ­ such as Miss Chief Eagle
Testickle. Says a reviewer of Monkman¹s work at a recent Peabody Museum
show, ³The Cree artist plays his drag show for laughs, but underlying it are
serious questions about white genocide of Native Americans.²

Monkman is a world renowned artist of Cree ancestry.  His solo exhibitions
have been held at: the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Winnipeg Art
Gallery, and in 2013 the National Gallery of Canada. He has participated in
international group exhibitions including: The American West, at Compton
Verney, in Warwickshire, England, and My Winnipeg at Maison Rouge, Paris,
France.
 
This presentation is part of the SFU Public Square Events and was programmed
by award-winning filmmaker and writer Loretta Todd.  It is the final public
program associated with the exhibition co-curated by Peter Morin and Dr.
Martine Reid, Carrying on ³Irregardless²: Humour in Contemporary Northwest
Coast Art, at the Bill Reid Gallery. Note: Exhibition must close March 17,
2013.
Presented by the Bill Reid Gallery with support from: Canada Council for the
Arts, Face The World Foundation, SFU Vancouver, SFU Office for Aboriginal
Peoples, and in partnership with the Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

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Feature Exhibition: Carrying on ³Irregardless²: Humor in Contemporary
Northwest Coast Art
MUST CLOSE: March 17, 2013

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