Making Sense of Things:

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Nadia Myre, Frank Shebageget, Tanis Maria S'eiltin, L.Frank Manriquez

This exhibition came together as a collaborative curatorial project intended to tour from McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton to the C. N. Gorman Museum at the University of California. It comprises four bodies of work that narrate past and present, as well as personal and collective experience. The participating artists share a common goal: to communicate meaning through an array of materials and objects. The creation and collection of multiples connects aspects of historical traditions and skills to the international visual language of contemporary art; signs of conflict and survival provide a frame of reference for the social positioning of the artists. 

Shebageget re-built, by hand, each one of 1,692 deHavilland Beaver floatplanes ever produced. S’eiltin strategically positions an object of potential mass destruction. Manriquez stages a mass attack by patriotic plastic insects, and Myre invites museum visitors to embroider scars onto canvas. 

Each of the artists has earned critical acclaim for a broad range of their recent work. The tour of their first joint exhibition from Hamilton to the C. N. Gorman Museum, presents an exciting opportunity for McMaster Museum of Art to connect with a renowned teaching museum in California.