First Thursday - The New Gallery - Seasonal Affective

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Venue / Location:
The New Gallery, Art Central, 100 7 Ave SW

4 Mar 2010 - 5:00pm

Ticket Price:
Free

Event Description:

The third annual installment of TNG’s educational initiative providing “real world” curatorial experience to senior art students in the city, this year’s exhibition will feature work by Billie Rae Busby, Dana Bush and Joshua Fraser, selected by Jenna Swift, a student from the University of Calgary’s Art History program. The exhibition title is a variation on the mood disorder clinically known as Seasonal Affective Disorder. The onset of this condition conventionally occurs in winter, as the temperature drops and days grow shorter. This exhibition explores the effect of environmental factors on the internal weather of the psychological condition. The tyranny of winter manifests itself in subtle and insidious ways, causing us to withdraw from the world outside.  Seasonal Affective seeks to reveal the mental processes which follow this retreat.