Focus Groups Exibits 2008

Since the recent conception of Focus Group, we have worked together to manage and participate in two exhibits. Here is a little description of our past exhibits in 2008...

August 30 - Sept 4, 2008
"Never Have I Ever" / Group Art Exhibit
Curated by Isabelle Carrier
La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa

Artists: Becky Armstrong, Ariane Beauchamp, Isabelle Melancon, Kristin Stoesz, Georgia Mathewson, Mariel Kelly, Brittany Shannon & Isabelle Carrier

"As artists, we feel the constant need to reinvent ourselves. Whether it be through or physical appearance, our approach of the world or the mediums we use, we are always asking ourselves `What have I never done before?` For some people, this need to perpetually reinvent yourself is a conceptual luxury. But in this exhibit, we decided to push our boundaries and give a voice to this little part of ourselves that wants to do extravagant things, but that is always pushed aside. In this show, eight artists dare to take the leap while giving you their take on the sentence `Never Have I Ever, sharing with you their experiences-that-may-never-be, their hopes, their crazy imaginations and their Happily Never After".




























April 2008 "Exhibit A" / Group Art Exhibit
Curated by the graduating class of 2008
University of Ottawa Visual Arts Department, Ottawa

Artists: Becky Armstrong, Ariane Beauchamp, Isabelle Melancon, Jen Cook, Kristin Stoesz, Georgia Mathewson, Mariel Kelly, Brittany Shannon, Isabelle Carrier and many, many others (total of almost 40 artists)

This was for many of us our first major exhibition. It also marked the end of our bachelor studies at the University. Many of us worked on the managing committees for this exhibit. Exhibit A was an interesting title for us, since Exhibit is a word that can designate an art event as well as a piece of evidence. The A in the title could mean many things; first, art, one...