Jack Kenna

Open Studio is a monthly program for young visitors and families inspired by contemporary art practices and CAG’s current exhibitions. Please join us for an art-making workshop with artist Jack Kenna. Inspired by Alex Morrison’s exhibition *Nooks and Corners*, Jack will lead the group in creating their own unique paper collage while sharing tips and techniques to create 3D illusions within their 2D collage. 

### RSVP
A limited number of spots will be available. To attend the event in person, please register via Eventbrite [here](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/open-studio-3d-illusions-and-collage-with-jack-kenna-tickets-275265084277). 

### COVID-19 
All children must be accompanied by an adult. Masks are required for all ages 5 and up. Vaccine passports will be checked for participants 12 years and older.

If you are unwell on the day of the workshop, please stay home! We’ll look forward to welcoming you to another Open Studio event soon.

For any questions, please email [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org)

A photo of Jack Kenna sitting in his studio and speaking to his laptop. 

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 3D Illusions and Collage with Jack Kenna

Open Studio

Alex Morrison

For more than twenty years, the practice of Vancouver-based artist Alex Morrison has explored the aesthetics of utopian thought, whether as embedded in activism and counterculture or architecture and design. Highlighting the persistent ways radical ideals and impulses are historicized, distorted and repurposed over time, Morrison’s work traces the means by which even the most persuasive of vernaculars cycle from avant-garde to kitsch and commodity.

In *Nooks and Corners*, Morrison presents a suite of new and recent works in painting and sculpture that extend his ongoing investigation into cultural identification and the ways identity and politics are fashioned aesthetically, particularly in the domestic sphere. Whether reflecting on the migration of once-revolutionary abstractions into the decorative and ornamental, the house- plant as an object of status and signification, or architectural revivalisms emptied of their styles’ foundational integrities and optimisms, Morrison foregrounds the inevitable divergences between the original intent of a given aesthetic and its continuous, often contradictory adaptation to new social and political ends.

### Biography 

Alex Morrison was born in Redruth, UK and currently lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. His work has been exhibited at White Columns, New York; La Plage, Paris; Vancouver Art Gallery; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff; and Artspeak, Vancouver, amongst other venues. His work is held by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal; Museum Abteiberg; Germany; Zabludowicz Collection, London, and numerous other public and private collections.

ProgramGuideWinter2022.pdf

CAG_AlexMorrison_ExhibitionGuide.pdf

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Nooks and Corners

Open Studio

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