The Union Gallery invites you to join visual artist Emily Jan and Bader Curator/Researcher of European Art Jacquelyn N. Coutré in an informal conversation and potluck edible art event inspired by Jan’s exhibition After the Hunt. Come and ‘eat the art’ and share in the conversation between Jan and Coutré as they discuss vanitas and the afterlife of the Dutch still life, art’s constructed histories, and the intersection between the authentic and the artificial in our visual world. We will also be launching the catalogue for the exhibitions.Participate in this lively event by helping Emily Jan create an edible Still Life. Drop off a food item of your choice at the gallery on Thursday, November 10th between 11-4:30pm or Friday November 11th between 11am-2pm (please do not bring items that need to be refrigerated or cooked).After the Hunt features a three-dimensional life-sized tableau based upon the visual language of 17th century Dutch still-life painting. The work comments upon the excesses of modern society both materially, through accretion of labour and matter, and conceptually, by referencing the ‘embarrassment of riches’ for which the Dutch Golden Age was known.Emily Jan is a Montréal-based artist and writer. Jan holds an MFA from Concordia University (2014), a BA with Honours from Brown University (2000), and a BFA with High Distinction from the California College of the Arts (2009). Her work has been exhibited and has won awards nationally and internationally, most recently at the Fiberart International Triennial in Pittsburgh, USA. Jan is currently working on two artist’s books which will be published in 2017 with Les Éditions Roselin.Jacquelyn N. Coutré is the Bader Curator and Researcher of European Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre of Queen’s University. She received her MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University and her BA from Indiana University. Prior to arriving at Queen’s, she held curatorial positions at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art. She has also taught at a number of universities and has published in the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, Dutch Crossing, and the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Her research explores the ways in which works of art reflect the social, political and economic realities of their time. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art.
