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SFU Gallery curator resigns after accusations of falsely claimed Indigenous ancestry
November 27, 2021By: Karissa Ketter, News Writer Vancouver curator Cheyanne Turions resigned this November from her position at SFU Galleries due to controversy over her identity. Turions previously self-identified as having Indigenous ancestry, but on April 19, 2021, reported on her blog she has no Indigenous ancestry. “I was recently called to investigate my identity in more detail and discovered that the family history that I was raised with does not match up with historical records. In response, I changed my self-identification to settler,” Turion wrote. Her resignation was announced on November 5, 2021, almost seven months after the discovery of her…
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Cedric Bomford’s Mountain Embassy is a commentary on an embassy’s role as an authority
November 1, 2019By: Kim Regala, Peak Associate Tucked away near SFU’s upper bus loop and camouflaged by bushes that span the walkway stands a large, mysterious, box-like structure. From afar, it vaguely resembles another familiar SFU building, the W.A.C. Bennett Library, inheriting…
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Catch it before it’s gone: Spaces for Reading at the SFU Gallery has less than a month left
May 26, 2019By: Kitty Cheung, Staff Writer Hurrying through the AQ hallways between classes, you may have passed by a room with what seems like a large white block, dotted with books and pillows. The SFU Gallery’s current exhibit, Spaces for Reading,…
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When the Guests Are Not Looking: the Audain Gallery’s freshest art installation
January 21, 2018By: Aritro Mukhopadhyay This new installation and performance piece showcasing the works of Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens explores the audience’s relationship with art itself. Awfully contemporary for its time, When the Guests Are Not Looking delves into the economics of…
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SFU Gallery and Burnaby Art Gallery team up for Alex Morrison exhibition
October 13, 2015In his 1968 essay, “A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects,” Robert Smithson writes about a “climate” of sight. He talks about the “mental weather” of an individual, and how a psyche makes one view art; a “wet” mind, for…
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The surprising story of SFU’s blue pyramid
March 2, 2015When a person turns 100, they become a centenarian. But what is it called when they reach the halfway point? This question led me to discover the word ‘quinquagenarian.’ This year, Simon Fraser University and its art collection will become…
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A place of knowledge: SFU Galleries celebrates the university’s 50th anniversary
January 12, 2015“Art tests things,” Melanie O’Brian, director of SFU Galleries and curator of its upcoming group exhibit, Geometry of Knowing, explained to The Peak. “It pushes on the unanswerable and unstable. It shifts, and it can make people uncomfortable with space.”…
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Antonia Hirsch: staring at nothing at the SFU Gallery
November 17, 2014When looking at Antonia Hirsch’s exhibition at the SFU Gallery, John Carpenter’s 1987 film, Prince of Darkness, came to mind. Satan is portrayed as infectious green ooze imprisoned in a jar and kept hidden from the world by a secret…
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