People in a Room
Thesis Exhibition
Public
An exhibition was created by members of the OCAD U Faculty of Art Critique Club. Together, individual multimedia works or cross-disciplinary projects come together as one big, complete art presentation.
100 McCaul Street
100 McCaul St., 2nd floor, MCA 225
Ada Slaight Gallery,
Alumni,
Campus Life,
Faculty of Art,
Orientation
Faculty of Art
Free
100 McCaul Street
100 McCaul St., 2nd floor, MCA 225
Ada Slaight Gallery,
Alumni,
Campus Life,
Faculty of Art,
Orientation
Faculty of Art
Free
Faculty of Art Student Critique Club Presents:
People in a Room
Curated by: Callum Donovan-Grujicich
- August 28 to September 8, 2025
Reception: Thursday, August 28, 3 pm
Ada Slaight Gallery, OCAD University
100 McCaul St., 2nd floor, Room 225
Free to the Public
Wheelchair accessible
If "Institutional Critique” is by now classical among the strains of contemporary artistic practice endorsed by the canon of 20th and 21st century art history, we propose here not a critique but a community space – that is not to say one that is uncritical or unreflective but rather one that foregrounds the contexts which shape learning and habitudes in an undergraduate fine arts program. Here the space of exhibition is as significant as its "content", and in much the same way we have conflated OCAD as architecture with its role as an institution that modulates the social and intellectual activity of its students. The work of OCAD U Critique Club members of which this exhibition is composed – coalescing to produce what amounts to a kind of Gesamtkustwerk – ranges from drawing, painting, sculpture, and audio to graphic and interior design. We have arranged a multiplicity of artistic modes representative of current student thought and production at the university, in consideration of the role of the Critique Club as a community venue and learning space, to produce a "social sculpture", or what might be marked as an art students' response to Bourriaud's call for an aesthetics of relationality.
Artists: Luke Donovan, Callum Donovan-Grujicich, Annie Gao, Edouard Potvin, Morgan Prescott, Dylan Dae Shin, Hayeon Song, Laaya Tabei
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What is the Faculty of Art Critique Club?
The Critique Club is a student-organized activity that provides a platform for critical dialogue, conceptual development, technique sharing, and networking. We welcome students from all programs and levels of the Faculty of Art to participate in this activity. During the club, participants are encouraged to present finished work or work in progress for feedback and open-minded conversation.
The FOA Critique Club invites all levels of students to join our future sessions.
The Critique Club is focused on students' conceptual development and, accordingly, we emphasize examining each work of art in its totality rather than as a collection of formal details. We are chiefly interested in improving each other's artistic thinking, though critique focus may vary from student to student and can include feedback on technique.
You don't need to present finished work; if you would like feedback about a work in progress or an unrealized project, we would be happy to accommodate you. If you would simply like to experience the format of a student-run critique, you are welcome as well.
Student organizers shall have a tool kit for support, however, participants are responsible for their own hardware and installation.
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The Critique Club is open to all students in the Faculty of Art.
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