Pause & Rewind
2nd Year BFA Group Show - Victoria Fenninger, Alex Contini,
Jennifer Sutherland, Laura Clayton, Lisa Figge, Andrea Gerstmann, Jennifer Kenneally, Marie McCarthy, Ivanna Ko
June 3 - 29 , 2006
Reception: June 3, 2-4p

We all have aspects of our persona that make us unique – our physical appearance, our character, our interests, our cultural background, our families and our location in the world. Pause & Rewind features art from nine students in Second year Fine Arts at Queen’s University. Working in sculpture painting or print, each artist’s work will explore how history, geography and culture operate on the imagination and contribute to ideas of individual identity and our sense of belonging. Pause & Rewind asks the viewer to take a moment to examine more closely some of these identity markers and cultural signifiers in order to see them out of context and in a new way.


Victoria Fenniger

Victoria Fenninger
In this project I have asked people to participate by writing a list of five things that they believe to be distinctly Canadian. From the range of responses I have tallied the top six responses and printed corresponding images of them on shapes I had knitted/ crotched. I then asked people to unravel each shape and then help me to re-knit them. By doing this I have tried to deconstruct old Canadian stereotypes and myths in an attempt to generate new images.

Victoria Fenninger is currently entering her third year in the BFA program at Queen’s University and is a member of a student art collective (YOSAC) affiliated with Y.O. Media Gallery in Sutton, Ontario and is also managing to sell and rent out art work from her parents store (Art Source) in Markham, Ontario. She enjoys working in a variety of media including painting, photography, printmaking, as well as more conceptual work including installations and time based media projects.

Alex Contini
I have been going to camp for all my life, and in this painting, I wanted to illustrate the feeling I getfrom the canoe trips that I always go on while I am there. At first they were both frustrating and painful for me, but as the years have passed, these experiences have not only improved my confidence and strength, but changed my life in so many ways.

Alex Contini is from Toronto, Ontario and is currently in her 2nd year at Queen's University in the BFA program.

Jennifer Sutherland
This piece looks at identity in several forms: physical, scientific, emotional, and geographical. I have recently relocated and have discovered much about what the word ‘home’ means, as well as learning a lot about myself. In the process of creating this piece, I have poured a lot of my inner thoughts about my own identity: as a student, a professional, and a woman.

Jennifer Sutherland has completed her second year of the BFA program at Queen's University. As a catering manager, Sutherland is responsible for making food and beverages look beautiful, which inspires her as an artist. Patience, compliance, balance, accenting, and garnishing are all elements of great food, and great art.

Laura Clayton
This piece is a collage of pictures from various moments in my life. I am looking into how memories or moments in time affect an individual’s identity and who they are. It is my belief that an individual identity is formed through experiences and the things that they are remembered for as well as what they remember about themselves. The piece is a way of retracing how my own identity has been formed through moments in time, from others and myself.

Laura Clayton has completed her second year at Queen’s University in the BFA program. Clayton wish is to pursue painting and print making in her art career.

Lisa Figge
On the Seat of the Canon…Setting a place for You and Me is meant to register the tension between art production and the inevitable deconstruction of art that makes it into the rarified territory of art critical debates. Art discourse is a long conversation between many about selected social practice of the past and present and it seems necessary that the artist be aware of the canon in order to proceed in creating new articulate artworks. Ultimately, I have created this sculptural piece in order to establish my own point of entry into the conversation while also giving myself permission to use, in my art, a controversial history of art.

Lisa Figge was born and raised in Manitoba and traveled around Canada and Europe during her years in the Canadian Forces. Now a full time student she lives with her spouse and children in Kingston, Ontario, and has just completed her second year of the BFA program at Queen’s University.

Andrea Gerstmann
In this piece I reflect on my idolization of nature. I find that I only idolize nature because I see it from a developed haven. My piece shows nature amplified through a structured style.

Andrea Gerstmann has completed her second year in the BFA program at Queen’s University. She works primarily in painting and printmaking focusing on nature as her subject matter. She is currently working at Paramount Canada’s Wonderland for her second year as a Lead Caricature artist.

Jennifer Kenneally
We live in a society obsessed with physical perfection. This perfection includes the issue of bodily hair. On women 'less is more' is the goal advertisers direct us to. Within and Without is a piece that talks about definitions of beauty that include our need to be 'hairless'. It deliberately sets out to create a dialogue with the viewer about where society deems hair acceptable (in the reflected image) and where it is not (in the wax sculptures).

Jennifer Kenneally immigrated to Canada with her British parents in 1967 and spent her childhood and young adulthood in Victoria, British Columbia. She graduated as an R. N. in 1984 and worked for 10 years as an operating room nurse before returning to her true calling in art and the theatre. Marriage to a member of the Canadian Armed Forces has given her the opportunity to sample many of Canada's universities on the road to obtaining a BFA and a teaching degree a well as establishing a career as an actor.

Marie McCarthy
A perspective of misunderstanding culture and personality. Who we are and what identifies us with assimilation into another culture.

Marie McCarthy is in her second year at Queen’s University in the BFA program. She works in painting and sculpture where she explores different social topics.

Ivanna Ko

Ivanna Ko
Ivanna Ko explores culture and its identity within modern society. Specifically, she focuses on the issues of cultural clash in an ever-changing society of multiculturalism.

Ivanna Ko is a undergraduate student from Toronto, currently studying at Queen’s University. She is in the BFA program at Queen’s University and within the media of painting, printmaking, sculpture and time-based media, she explores culture and its identity within modern society. Specifically, Ivanna focuses on the issues of cultural clash in an ever-changing society of multiculturalism.