In the Main Gallery:
Fraternity by Kevin Rodgers
26 June – 24 July, 2010
Reception: Saturday 26 June 2010 @7pm
Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, 21 Queen St., Kingston ON

In the State of Flux Gallery:
Watching Paint Dry by Andrew Sims
26 June – 24 July, 2010
Reception: Saturday 26 June 2010 @7pm
Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, 21 Queen St., Kingston ON

Kingston-based photographer Andrew Sims presents a meditation on media and mortality through an investigation of his camera’s abilities to capture the surfaces of things. In this new series of photographs, Sims attempts to disrupt the habits of perception.

Opening Reception: Saturday 15 May 2010 @ 7pm

Opening Reception: Saturday 15 May 2010 @ 7pm

Opening Reception: Saturday May 1, 2010 at 7pm
Artist’s Talk: Saturday May 8, 2010 at 2pm -- FREE
Where: Modern Fuel Gallery, 21 Queen St., Kingston ON

In the State of Flux Gallery:
THE NUMBER OF DAYS
Carlyn Bezic, Cecily Taylor

Reception: Saturday 27 February 2010 at 7pm

TRIAL PROOFS
Élène Tremblay

Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, in association with Apple Crisp Arts, is proud to present Friday Night Flux, a variety revue headlined by The Cedar Tavern Singers AKA The Phonoréalistes, the conceptual art-ernative folk rock duo of Mary-Ann McTrowe and Daniel Wong (Lethbridge, AB).

Modern Fuel presents the latest installment in its Vapours series of experimental music, a concert featuring esther b. (Montreal, QC) and The House is Black (Kingston, ON) on Saturday, February 20th, at 8pm. Vapours is a semi-regular concert series hosted by Modern Fuel, the aim of which is to provide an alternative space for exploratory musical performances and to promote emerging experimental musicians both locally and nationally. Admission is $5.

For Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, performance artist Julie Andrée T. will be exploring the possibility of using the body as a canvas, to create a moving drawing suggesting a changing landscape. Without a stable point of reference, the performer oscillates between being a body with an identity and a body-object. Inspired and fascinated by tragic moments, Julie Andrée T. is searching for a universal language while telling a story. She asks, “What if the story is just a deviation to walk towards abstraction?”

State of Flux Space
Untitled Works on Paper, by JoAnn Ralph

"Ad Hoc" is an exhibition of photographs by two artists from the Kingston region, Noel Bullock (a founding director of Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre in 1977) and Jocelyn Purdie (currently the Director of the Union Gallery at Queen's). Both artists present a body of work that investigates a phenomenon of “vernacular” architecture. Purdie provides a typography of the duck-blinds of Wolfe Island, and Bullock documents the displaced residents of Vancouver’s East side through portraits of their shopping carts.

In collaboration with Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, the Union Gallery presents the work of visiting Thai artist Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, and collaborators, in a multimedia installation focusing on the hybridity of new media and cross-cultural exchange. Chutiwongpeti's exhibition runs concurrently with an exhibition in Union Gallery's Main Space, Between Spaces, featuring the work of Kim Armstrong and Monique Baena-Tan. A reception and artists' talk will take place on December 5th from 6 to 8 pm.

The work by Peter Kingstone and Lucie Chan in Modern Fuel’s latest exhibition Storytellings gives a voice to stories from communities that might have otherwise gone unheard. Taking up the entire gallery, Storytellings presents a major video installation by each artist, putting these stories centre-stage.

Reception: Saturday 5 December 2009 6pm-8pm at the Union Gallery

Artist's talk at 7 pm.

As someone with a taste for art and culture, you won’t want to miss Good Tastes, the annual silent art auction fundraiser hosted by Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre. The auction will be held on Saturday, November 7th from 7 pm – 9 pm at Modern Fuel, 21 Queen Street. This year, Modern Fuel is bringing it back to the basics. This “no frills” evening is all about the art, with live music, appetizers, door prizes, and a cash bar.

In its eighth year, Kingston’s unique festival of adventurous sound performance TONE DEAF presents a special focus on the eminent American composer of experimental music and sound installations, Alvin Lucier. Since the mid-1960s, Lucier has been a pioneering force in music and sound art, whether working with a brainwave-activated percussion orchestra or traditional chamber ensembles.

Chronotopic Village gathers together the work of Nadia Myre, Kevin Burton, Cheryl L'Hirondelle, Darlene Naponse and Thirza Cuthand, who each in turn invite the audience to engage multiple and diverse chronotopes (times-spaces.) Each artist presents meditations on new and ever-changing cultural imaginaries that co-exist within the modern nation state in both its cities and rural spaces. In this exhibition curated by Wanda Nanibush, the specific locations of each artist are multiple, and how that impacts their artistic engagement with time-spaces is the Chronotopic Village.