The Union Gallery
1st Floor Stauffer Library K7L 5C4 Kingston, ON, Canada

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS! Union Gallery is looking for volunteers to join the Cézanne’s Closet Committee! Cézanne’s Closet is #UnionGallery’s largest annual fundraising event, held each February.... Volunteers assist with: event logistics, collecting artwork donations, ticket sales, installation, marketing and promotions, and day-of event coordination. While this year’s event will look a little different, the basic concept will remain the same: Works of art, juried from donations by community artists, students, graduates, and professors are exhibited at Union Gallery. With the purchase of a ticket to Cézanne’s Closet, participants are guaranteed to receive a work of art of their choosing. The order in which ticket holders get to make their selections, however, is determined by a lottery draw. If you’re interested in joining the 2021 Cézanne’s Closet Committee, send an email to Co-Chairs Sinead O’Hara and Will Boyle at [email protected] Note: this is a remote volunteer opportunity, with the potential for some in-person opportunities in the winter semester. #Cezannes2021 #CezannesCloset #YGKart

Lens/Visions is a Union Gallery short film virtual screening that features eleven short films and video projects that re-examine pasts, presents and futures through broad and ranging narratives of nostalgia, environmentalism, mental health, conflicting and nourishing relationships, and apocalyptic realities. Lens/Visions will be livestreamed via Union Gallery’s Facebook on November 12-13. Livestream Begins: 7pm Screening: 7:309pm... The screenings are organized into two guiding thematics: Mobile Lens on Thursday, November 12 and Critical Visions on Friday, November 13. Each screening will be led by curators’ introductions and followed by live Q&A with the artists and filmmakers. In this series: Critical Visions, we are honoured to showcase works created by filmmakers and artists include Queen’s students, recent graduates and collaborators: Austin Benson, Kushan Samarawickrema, James P. Hoban, Posy Legge + Kitz Willman, and The Westkitz Watershed. Lens/Visions is curated by Roy Zheng, Union Gallery Curatorial Assistant. Lens/Visions will transform into an on-site exhibition at the Union Gallery in the Project Room, November 24December 18, 2020. This exhibition will be an ever-changing installation, rotating between all video works across playful display platforms. Lens/Visions is a platform, a portal, a point of entry. Please enjoy the show.

TONIGHT: join us for part 2 of the Lens/Visions virtual short film screening, Critical Visions! Critical Visions will be screened virtually via Facebook Live on the Union Gallery Facebook page. Filmmakers and artists will be present for Q&A sessions throughout the screening. 7PMLivestream begins... 7:15PMCurators’ introduction 7:30PMScreening + Q&A Pictured here are stills from tonight’s films.

Growing ; pains and Lens/Visions are now on display! Stop by during gallery hours (TUES-FRI 21-4PM) to check out these amazing new exhibitions. On display in the Main Space: Growing ; pains. Third year BFA students Lucy Chandler, Hannah Gommerman and James Sweet dive deep into the oftentimes painful journey of growth through whimsical and vulnerable larger-than-life sculptures.... On display in the Project Room: Lens/Visions. Eleven short films and video projects explore broad and ranging narratives of nostalgia, environmentalism, mental health, conflicting and nourishing relationships, and apocalyptic realities. Image: Hannah Gommerman, Heart Strings, 2020. Learn more about Growing ; pains: https://uniongallery.queensu.ca/currentProgr/mainSpace.html Learn more about Lens/Visions: https://uniongallery.queensu.ca/currentPro/projectRoom.html Book a private visit: https://form.jotform.com/202884581033253

The Department of Art History & Art Conservation at Queen's University is co-presenting the Art for Social Change Speaker Series with the PADP Coming up on November 25 from 5:30-7PM: David Rokeby, Art and Artificial Intelligence For more information, visit: https://www.queensu.ca//david-rokeby-art-and-artificial-in

TONIGHT: Join us for the virtual screening of Lens/Visions! Mobile Lens (part 1 of 2 instalments of Lens/Visions) will be screened virtually via Facebook Live on the Union Gallery Facebook page. Filmmakers and artists will be present for Q&A sessions throughout the screening. 7PMLivestream begins... 7:15PMCurators’ introduction 7:30PMScreening + Q&A Pictured here are stills from tonight’s films.

We are thrilled to announce two new exhibitions on display starting November 24: Growing ; pains in the Main Space and Lens/Visions in the Project Room. Growing ; pains features the work of third year Queen's BFA students Lucy Chandler, Hannah Gommerman and James Sweet, who dive deep into the oftentimes painful journey of growth through whimsical and vulnerable larger-than-life sculptures. Each artist signals metaphors for psychological growth and self-reflection, centred in ...and beyond the physical body, through repurposed, upcycled and handmade materials. Lens/Visions features eleven short films and video projects that re-examine pasts, presents and futures through broad and ranging narratives of nostalgia, environmentalism, mental health, conflicting and nourishing relationships, and apocalyptic realities. Film styles and approaches include short-docs, poetic renderings and experimental production. Filmmakers: Jung-Ah Kim, Lexie Braden, Ming Xing + Siyang Hu, Dragon Lords, Lauren Thomas + Francesca Lim, Albert Yuou Liu, Austin Benson, Kushan Samarawickrema, James P. Hoban, Posy Legge + Kitz Willman, The Westkitz Watershed. Be sure to stop by during regular gallery hours (TUESFRI 124PM) to check out these wonderful exhibitions, on display from NOV 24DEC 18. Image: Lucy Chandler, Untitled (detail), 2020. Courtesy of the artist.

Dragon Lords, Deadly Shapes of Shaolin (video still), 2020. Courtesy of the artists. Deadly Shapes of Shaolin is part of the Lens/Visions short film exhibition on display in our Project Room from November 24 to December 18, 2020. Visit our website for more info: https://uniongallery.queensu.ca/currentPro/projectRoom.html