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Modern Fuel spring exhibits unusual, yet effective

Written on April 4, 2018. Posted in Arts.

Running until Apr. 28, Modern Fuel is showcasing two unique exhibits tackling all too familiar social issues like gender identity and environmentalism. Chun Hua Catherine Dong’s The Drift Latitudes and Jocelyn Purdie’s Nature FIXED (on resilience) are challenging expressions of art and its political...

New exhibits are a modest attempt at a big idea

Written on January 26, 2018. Posted in Arts.

This January, Modern Fuel unveiled two new exhibits for the winter semester — Ritualia and Untitled (eyelids). The wide open space of the main room features a variety of scattered pieces that viewers can wander around, under and through. Altogether, these form the exhibit Ritualia, meant to re-examine...

100 minutes, 100 years, two artistic spaces

Written on October 16, 2017. Posted in Arts.

On October 12, The Agnes Etherington Art Centre and Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre held a celebration to recognize their 60th and 40th anniversaries, respectively. Both institutions collaborated at the Agnes with “100 Minutes for 100 Years.” With each presenter having a maximum of 10 minutes — which...

Modern Fuel plans ahead

Written on February 10, 2015. Posted in Arts.

Modern Fuel will use their relocation to the Tett Centre as an opportunity for expansion and accessibility. The artist-run centre moved from their initial location on Queen St. to the Tett Centre last month and have since been adjusting to the new space, according to Kevin Rodgers, Modern Fuel’s artistic...

Clouds up close

Written on January 28, 2014. Posted in Arts.

Montreal-based visual artist Hannah Claus has brought the sky to Kingston. Her sculptural installation cloudscape, currently housed at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre located at Queen and Ontario Streets, is made up of countless paper ovals strung from the ceiling and arranged into several amorphous,...

Societal dialogue

Written on January 17, 2014. Posted in Arts.

A true artist is always deeply involved in facilitating and fostering a dialogue with society. Currently based in New York City’s Brooklyn and Stockholm, Sweden, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen’s work is steeped in critical and political analysis, dealing with diverse issues such as multiculturalism, historicity,...

Artists in the artwork

Written on February 5, 2013. Posted in Arts.

Art galleries house the artwork, not the artists. Somehow Chris Miner manages to combine both in his new exhibit. In Artists Statements, Miner provides an intimate look at the artists behind the works through his photograph series. The Kingston photographer offers the artist statement through his...

Life story in art

Written on November 9, 2012. Posted in Arts.

Watch your step — there’s artwork on the floor. Kingston artist Lisa Figge is trying to tell you her story. Her exhibit I Can Only Make It Up Once contains four separate installation art pieces in Modern Fuel. You don’t have to look far for the first one — it’s underneath your feet when you walk inside. Figge...

A sight for sore ears

Written on November 2, 2012. Posted in Arts.

An art exhibit can sometimes assault your eyes, but not often assault your ears as well. Christopher Arnoldin, Jo-Anne Balcaen and Matt Rogalsky’s exhibit Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room asked me to use all of my senses and not just my sight. Rogalsky had 12 fender Stratocaster guitars hooked up to amps...

Dream dimensions

Written on September 21, 2012. Posted in Arts.

Vivid crispness of colour, and a suspended mid-air feel to each work facilitate a rush of surrealism. Disorienting yet engaging, the surroundings call to a sense of dream-like captivation. The theme of this main space exhibit is a list of works by Eliza Au and Ying-Yueh Chuang, which infuses the concept...

A peek into the mind of the artist

Written on September 7, 2012. Posted in Arts.

Don Maynard’s Take Note exhibit was a bit like climbing a mountain. Slow and tedious at first, but well worth the required time and effort. Housed in Modern Fuel’s State of Flux Gallery, the installation consists of 18 artists’ notebooks chained to the white walls of the gallery space. Their soft...

Student artwork shut out

Written on July 30, 2012. Posted in Arts.

While it’s always been the gallery’s policy to restrict programming to professional artists, only in early June was a provision regarding student eligibility added to the submission guidelines posted on Modern Fuel’s website. The policy states explicitly, “Undergraduate students enrolled in a fine...

Archaic aesthetic

Written on January 24, 2012. Posted in Arts.

A new exhibit at Modern Fuel’s State of Flux Gallery is chronicling the progression of an artist’s career. Kingston artist Tim Murphy’s discography is laid out among countless crinkled editions of his zine Ponyboys in his exhibit, Cheap, Fast, and Easy. Murphy published his zine Noise Queen from 1996...

From art to ashes

Written on January 17, 2012. Posted in Arts.

Over 1,400 books were burned for Tammy McGrath’s latest installation, Voir Dire, in the main gallery of Modern Fuel. Three strange animals made of feathers, hair and petrified claws hover over the piles of singed pages. “It’s up to the viewer to decide whether these creatures act as protectors of...

Technology tie-down

Written on October 7, 2011. Posted in Arts.

A stuffed pigeon tied to a brick, a message in a bottle and a photograph of smoke signals are the only items in Abbas Akhavan’s Correspondences, on display at Modern Fuel. The dead pigeon is a morbid, yet effective, allegory for modern communication’s effect on relationships before phones, internet...

Radical audio

Written on September 16, 2011. Posted in Arts.

Psychadelic death-metal, Peking Opera and a sketch comedy troop will be the features of tonight’s installment of Vapours concert series. Modern Fuel has produced the series nine times. For two years, Modern Fuel has partnered with Kingston’s Multicultural Arts Festival to present a set of exploratory...

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Modern Fuel spring exhibits unusual, yet effective

New exhibits are a modest attempt at a big idea

100 minutes, 100 years, two artistic spaces

Modern Fuel plans ahead

Clouds up close

Societal dialogue

Artists in the artwork

Life story in art

A sight for sore ears

Dream dimensions

A peek into the mind of the artist

Student artwork shut out

Archaic aesthetic

From art to ashes

Technology tie-down

Radical audio

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