The Campus Gallery
Georgian’s Campus Gallery is a vibrant multi-disciplinary exhibition space where students in Design and Visual Arts programs and established artists showcase their work. The Campus Gallery hosts a variety of exhibitions and artist talks that reflect regional, national and international art, craft and design.
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Exhibitions
The Violence of Possibility: Memory, “Progress,” and Place
An Exhibition of Work by Linda Zhang and Biko Mandela Gray
October 31-November 28, 2024
- Opening reception: Wednesday November 6, 2024 5-7pm
- Artist Talk and Film Screening at The Campus Gallery: Friday November 8th 10am
About the exhibition
If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place—the picture of it—stays, and not just in my rememory, but out there, in the world. –Toni Morrison, Beloved
The past can haunt you. Especially when that past has been covered up and papered over by narratives of progress and possibility. What was forgotten will always threaten to return. But maybe haunting opens a different way of thinking—and perhaps moving and acting in the world. The Violence of Possibility, an exhibition by Linda Zhang and Biko Mandela Gray, turns to three different sites–a street, a gypsum mine, and a canal–to explore the brutal dynamics of memory and erasure. This installation showcases ceramic casts and 3d-scanned pieces that are haunting in their presence; in doing so, Zhang and Gray hope to open a space to grapple with the various ways the forgotten past haunts us.
Because that past is, still, out there. In the world.
Biko Mandela Gray, PhD (Rice University) is an Associate Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. His research and teaching are focused on the relationship between continental philosophy, religion, black life, and ethics–all in service of pushing for a different and perhaps better social world. He’s the author of Black LIfe Matter (Duke, 2022), the co-author (with Ryan Johnson) of Phenomenology of Black Spirit (Edinburgh, 2022), and the co-editor (with Lori Martin and Stephen Finley) of The Religion of White Rage (Edinburgh, 2020).
Linda Zhang (she/her), M.Arch (Harvard University) is an architect (OAA, AIA), interior designer (NCIDQ), drone pilot (RPAS Advanced Operations), creative technologist and educator. She is a co-founder of Studio Pararaum (with Meng Li, Toronto—Zürich) and an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Waterloo. Her spatial practice and research supports community ownership and anti-displacement through architectural co-design, community memory, and heritage technologies for co-imagination and co-remembering to envision a more generative, affordable and culturally meaningful shared future(s) for all.
About the gallery
Location
The Campus Gallery is located in room 140, D building (Helen and Arch Brown Centre for Design and Visual Arts) at the Barrie Campus, Georgian College, 1 Georgian Drive.
Hours of operation
Effective Sept. 21:
- Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Saturday to Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.
For more information, please contact us.
The Campus Gallery objective and mandate is to deliver a diversity of visual to the City of Barrie, its immediate region and within the Georgian College campus community.
The exhibitions celebrate emerging, mid-career and established artists, designers and craftspersons, as well as students within post-secondary arts education. The Campus Gallery will support the exhibition objectives with informative artist lectures that will be open to the immediate community, high schools and the college community, thus creating an environment of critical thinking, insight and appreciation.
Through outreach and exchange, the Campus Gallery will host and present international exchange exhibitions and lectures as well as exhibitions of community outreach at our partner venues. We exhibit our significant collection and bring visual arts to distinctly different audiences, facilitating and encouraging a dialogue and awareness of the arts in our community.
The Campus Gallery is committed to delivering a diverse program of exhibitions by visual artists, designers and crafts people to the Barrie and the Simcoe County arts community. A policy of inclusivity guides our programming, giving equal voice to emerging, mid career and senior artist with diverse practices.
The gallery space allows artists to realize special projects, surveys or retrospectives, and to see large groups of work together in an excellent facility, sometimes for the first time.
We are committed to furthering the knowledge of contemporary practice to the community with our on going artist lecture series, which has consistently featured insightful dialogue form the frontlines of creativity by exceptional regional, national and international artists.
The Campus Gallery identifies its exhibition roster three years in advance and books its artist lecture series on a yearly basis. We provide a diversity of visual arts programming to the community and continue to foster an environment of learning, engagement and dialogue in the visual arts which is only available in one other Barrie location.
The Campus Gallery provides a laboratory space for our Museum and Gallery Studies graduate certificate students to engage with artists, the campus collection, and to develop programming in locations outside of the gallery, based on the Campus Gallery Collection. This offsite programming allows us to bring unique, contemporary art to an even more diverse audience, creating another level of dialogue, awareness and engagement.
Over the past years, we have partnered with the Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH), Five Points Theatre (formerly The Mady Centre for the Performing Arts) and the Barrie Courthouse to create exhibition space and thoughtful, unique programming from some of over 2,500 works in the Campus Gallery collection.
The Georgian College Art Collection holds over 5,000 diverse artworks of local, regional, and international significance. The collection has grown over the span of 50 years, as artists have crossed paths with the college’s Design and Visual Arts Department and contributed artworks. The artworks are preserved and displayed in college offices, libraries, and The Campus Gallery, as well as in community venues. The collection space also acts as a learning environment for students of the Museum and Gallery Studies program.
Art from the Georgian Collection Collection can currently be viewed at the Royal Victoria Hospital David McCullough Hearts and Minds Gallery “Healing through Art: Nature’s Comfort” featuring paintings by Christina Luck and curated by students in the Museum and Gallery Studies program. On view until early June 2024.
“Hidden Gems” features art from the Georgian College Collection is on view at The First Floor Gallery at City Hall in Barrie, curated by Collections Assistant, Yasmeen Kazak. On view until mid-June 2024.
Contact us
If you have questions or require more information, please email Amy Bagshaw, Director, The Campus Gallery.