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Artist As Activist Exhibit By Stephen Surlin @ The Lebel Gallery

July 29, 2011 – 12:03 pm


 
Artist As Activist Gallery Exhibit By Stephen Surlin January 24 – 28 @ Lebel Gallery The exhibit entitled Artist As Activist is a solo exhibition featuring the recent works of Stephen Surlin, who also curated the show. Because of Surlin’s recent travels to Nigeria, Africa, he was inspired to use his interest in social justice issues, [...]

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Pocket Park / Sound Wall

May 3, 2011 – 10:00 am

The pocket Park / Sound Wall project was done by myself and Kevin Kaputsiak. Together, along with Tug Collective: Gaelyn Aguilar, Gustavo Aguilar, we attempted to create a sustainable and low-impact designed structure in order to create a small space where students and passer-bys can have a bit of solitude and nature in an area where that [...]

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Killing Us Softly

February 22, 2011 – 8:54 pm

Killing Us Softly Killing Us Softly was a solo show held by Stephen Surlin in late 2009 at the Lebel Gallery on the University of Windsor campus. The title is inspired by the media criticism and analysis by Jeane Kilbourne, who’s work focuses on the dangerous levels of gendered exploitation in the media, especially magazine ads [...]

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Interview With Broken City Lab

January 27, 2011 – 11:30 am

Recently one of the senior research fellows at the local artist/activist group Broken City Lab named Josh Babcock interviewed me about my current gallery show “Artist As Activist” on at the Lebel Gallery on the University of Windsor Campus. Broken City Lab is an artist-led interdisciplinary creative research group that tactically disrupts and engages the [...]

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Stephen Surlin’s Windsor Star Interview

January 27, 2011 – 11:20 am

Stephen Surlin, a University of Windsor arts student displays his rechargeable solar powered LED lamp Wednesday January 19, 2011. The piece is part of an exhibit Surlin will present at the Lebel Gallery at the school. Photograph by: Dan Janisse, The Windsor Star University of Windsor artist’s gallery showing inspired by humanitarian trip to Nigeria [...]

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ARTIST AS ACTIVIST: Gallery Exhibit by Stephen Surlin

January 16, 2011 – 6:06 pm

ARTIST AS ACTIVIST Gallery Exhibit by Stephen Surlin  January 24 – 28 Gallery Reception at 7:00 pm on January 28th. The role of the artist in contemporary society has expanded to include an engagement with some of the social and humanitarian crisis’ of our time. The concepts of contemporary Design are filling the imaginations of [...]

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Lebel Drawing

December 27, 2010 – 7:46 pm

Lebel Drawing Illustration made in Adobe Illustrator CS4 2010 by Stephen Surlin This piece was an assignment from the Drawing class I had with Ian Baxter, the Canadian conceptual artist. We were told that we need to create a “drawing” from the “smoker’s pavilion” facing in one of the main directions of the compass (north, [...]

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