A not-for-profit venue for contemporary art, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre facilitates the presentation and interpretation of visual and time-based arts that explore wide-ranging aesthetics and probe a broad scope of formal and socio-cultural questions.

Within these disciplinary parameters, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre is committed to artists from the region which spans an approximate radius of 100 km around Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Its programs aim primarily to feature regional artists and to be responsive to their professional development needs; the selection of extra-regional artists provides complementary perspectives to regional programming. Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre also strives to make its programming more accessible to the community at large.

Exhibition Currently Displayed:

Curated By: Lindsay Fisher & Vincent Perez

Disconnected: Rethinking Terms Of Artistic Success

11 Jan - 18 February 2006

( panoramas 1 & 2 / Modern Fuel Gallery)

Adair Rounthwaite - Allison Brown - Boxcar Monty - Briony Carros - Emily Rothwell - Emmy Eskensved - Jason Haan - Jeanne Ju - Lisa Visser - Michael McMormack.

Disconnected is a group exhibition that proposes a reconsidering of popular, institutional and market-driven definitions of art world success. In the attempt to describe a greater democracy of artistic practice, this exhibit gathers for participation artists who negotiate the divide between mythical poles of art star and starving artist, making it or breaking it.

To the same end, it gives witness to work outside of the art circuit, to modes of private discourse better informed by catharsis than competition, and it documents diverse courses for an art career. Inspired by their post-art school anxiety, artists Lindsay Fisher and Vincent Perez determine to look for alternatives and supplements to the prescribed meaning of achievement in art.

They design an installation exhibition in which the embedded artworks and their processes, accompanied by a series of schematic representations of the tension between the model and its aberrant, function as a kind of museum tour of the extra-museum set.

Disconnected is produced under the generous mentorship of artist Peter Conlin.

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Fight Me !

11 Jan - 18 February 2006

( panorama 3 / State of Flux Gallery)

Devon DeRose.

The origin of this recent work comes from a preoccupation with animal interactions and behaviour. In this series De Rose explores the dark nature of animal aggression using images of personified creatures to represent animal warfare, strife and affliction.

Devon De Rose, a BFA graduate of the University of Ottawa (2002), works primarily in expressionist and narrative painting. A former member of the Board of Directors of Modern Fuel ARC she currently resides in Picton where she works on her paintings and sculptures.

Previous Exhibitions:

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