Vernissage Review

Be sure to check out the McGill Daily's review of last weeks vernissage!

The latest edition can be found on news stands around campus, or here: http://mcgilldaily.com/issues/4853 (p.19).

the (sur)real.

The Fridge Door Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the (sur)real. which will take place on Nov.16th at 5:30 pm in the Arts Lounge.

The (sur)real. features work from 9 McGill artists reflecting real life, the surreal and all of the oddities that fall somewhere in between.

We welcome you to stop by, have a glass of wine, and contemplate the (sur)real.

Call for Submissions

The Fridge Door Gallery is now accepting submissions!!!

If you are a McGill artist looking for a place to exhibit your work, you’ve found it!

Please send us your applications for the upcoming exhibition by October 18th 2010 at the latest!

It is important that you include the following;
* jpeg files of your work (no links please)
* a brief artist's statements
* title of your work
* dimensions (cm please)
* medium (painting, photograph, mixed media, etc)

Please send all applications to:
fridgedoorgallery@gmail.com

First General Meeting

Monday Sept. 20th 2010 @ 5:30 in Leacock 111

See you there!

It's that time of year again!

Welcome back! :)

Now that the school year has officially begun, we will start having meetings within the next few weeks. These will be announced in class and on our facebook page.

This will be many of the FDG organizers last year at McGill, and we will be recruiting fresh talent to carry on the legacy! If you are interested in becoming more involved with the FDG this year, please let us know by e-mailing fridgedoorgallry@gmail.com or let one of us know when we make class announcements and we can give you more information. It is a great way to meet new people, express your creativity and get hands on experience with putting together an exhibition.

We can't wait to get things moving and look forward to meeting our newest members!

The FDG Team

Freezchester

The Fridge Door Gallery is currently accepting submissions for Freezchester, an installation of ''Modern Magnetic Miniatures'' in the Hazard MMX Festival opening in Manchester this July!

This is the FDG's third collaboration with artist Alban Low, the man behind Open Fridge, Fab Fridge, and now Freezchester!

If you are interested in submitting, please send images of your art work to fridgedoorgallery@gmail.com by June 22nd at the latest! Images must be sized in a ratio of 4:3 (or vice versa) and of decent resolution.

Please check out the following websites:
http://hazardmcr.org/
www.freezchester.blogspot.com

FAB Fridge Opening

FAB Fridge, part of the Fringe Art Bath Festival will be opening on May 28, 2010 in Bath, England!

The Fridge Door Gallery has submitted art work by 14 McGill artists which have been transformed into magnets to be displayed throughout the festival. If you happen to be in England this summer, check it out! If not- we will be posting photos shortly :)

This is the FDG's 2nd contribution to events organized by artist Alban Low. They are a huge success and a lot of fun! Check out the blogs for updates!

www.fabfridge.blogspot.com
www.fringeartsbath.co.uk
http://www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/here-today-gone-tomorrow/

FDG Artists:

Alia Rasul
Amanda Barile
Amanda Brownridge
Aquil Virani
Chelsea Lytle
Choucri Bechir
David Whiteside
Guillermina Lasarte
Mathieu Toussaint
Natalie Dionne
Natasha Rajamani
Pilar Cortés
Rebecca Chapman
Sara McCulloh

Submission Deadline Fast Approaching!

Send us your art by April 21st to take part in Alban Low's FAB Fridge! It is going to be awesome!

Our Next Project... The Fab Fridge with Alban Low!

For those of you who did not know, this year the FDG participated in it's first international show; Alban Low's Open Fridge 2010 Magnetic Miniatures exhibition. This event was a great success and twelve McGill artists participated :)

Alban has written to us asking if we would like to participate in his up coming show; Fab Fridge.
We are very excited about this event and if anyone is interested in submitting, please let us know!

This show will be going up in June as part of the Fringe Arts Bath Festival in Bath, England.

If you are interested in submitting as a Fridge Door Gallery artist: Please send us your art (9x12 cm or 4:3 ratio) by April 21st (including title, your name, and a website if you have one) and we will take care of the rest!

fridgedoorgallery@gmail.com

Thank you!

Thank you so much to everyone who came out last night for the launch of Cruxism, it was a great success! A special thanks to the AUS who graciously opened up the Arts Lounge for our use!

Photos of the event are up on facebook as well as our slideshow!

Stay tuned...

Cruxism Vernissage: DATE CHANGE!!!

***Please note that we have had to change the date of our upcoming vernissage***

Cruxism will open Tuesday March 23rd in the Arts Lounge (Basement of the Leacock Building) from 5:30-9:00 pm.

We hope you will join us!!!

Cruxism: Vernissage March 25th 2010

We invite you join us on March 25th for the launch of Cruxism!

We have called upon the wide variety of McGill student artists and have gathered an amazing array of art work. Our goal here is to do away with the last remnants of Greenbergian specificity and truly embrace the Medias of our time. Today more than ever before traditional forms of art no longer consume the field. This is not to say that painting is dead, but rather that we take pride in our fluency in several media.

As we embark on a new decade, how will we make our mark on the present for the future? How will we be remembered? Working in/outside/around the White Cube it is clear that Art is undergoing major renovations.

In this space we have a chance to experiment, to break open neat compartments, stretch boundaries and take on new meanings, to remix, to attract new audiences, to ultimately provide a place for exploration.

This year the Fridge Door Gallery offers a spectrum of emerging voices that will come together on March 25th- an event that will consequently define the movement itself.

Canvas Journal will be available as well, hot off the press!!!

Beverages and Goodies will be provided!

Cruxist Manifesto: Call for Submissions

This is a call to painters, sculptors, installation artists, photographers, sound recorders, video artists, print makers, performers, filmmakers and all other relevant media artists. Let us do away with the last remnants of Greenbergian specificity and truly embrace the Medias of our time. Today more than ever before, traditional forms of art no longer consume the field. This is not to say that painting is dead, but rather that we take pride in our fluency of several media.

As we embark on a new decade, how will we make our mark on the present for the future? How will we be remembered? Working in/outside/around the White Cube it is clear that Art is undergoing major renovations.

In this space we have a chance to experiment, to break open neat compartments, stretch boundaries and take on new meanings, to remix, to attract new audiences, to ultimately provide a place for exploration.

This year the Fridge Door Gallery offers a spectrum of emerging voices that will come together on March 25th- an event that will ultimately define the movement itself.

Submit! Participate! Attend!

Call for Submissions deadline: March 1st 2010
Please send jpeg images of your art (or proposals) to: fridgedoorgallery@gmail.com
Be sure to include: artist name, title, medium, dimensions and an artist statement as well as your major/year.

Open Fridge 2010!

Please check out the Fridge Door Gallery's first International Contribution with artist, Alban Low!

The Open Fridge 2010 show will be opening on March 1st at Gallery 89, Barnet College, London...and it is going to be awesome!

Twelve artists from McGill have submitted art that has been transformed into "Modern Magnetic Miniatures" that will be decorating fridge doors across the pond! :)

Photos to come....

Thank you!

Thank you for all of you who came to last night's opening of Inside the Fridge!

It was an awesome evening and we could not have wished for a better crowd :)

A special thanks to Papeterie Nota Bene for graciously opening their doors to us!

For all of you who were not able to make it, the art work will be staying up until the 29th of January, and photos of the event shall be posted shortly!

Stay tuned for our next show which will be coming up in March, and a few special tricks that we have hidden up our sleeve!

Inside the Fridge

It's official!

The executive team of the Fridge Door Gallery will be presenting a selection of our art work for the first time ever this coming Thursday, January 14th at Nota Bene Papeterie (3416 avenue Du Parc).

The vernissage will be open from 5-9 pm that night, however the art work will be staying up for a while, in case you can't make it to the opening night.

Although the Fridge Door Gallery showcases student art twice a year, the executive members do not submit their work. This is our chance to show you our art, as we are continuously privileged in viewing yours. We hope that you enjoy the show!