Rita McKeough
The Lion's Share
January 21 - April 26, 2014
Kenderdine Art Gallery
Curated by Josphine Mills
For The Lion's Share, Calgary-based artist Rita McKeough will create a simulated restaurant in the Kenderdine Art Gallery with found and constructed objects, kinetics and sound. The installation uses a humorous and dream-like scenario to raise questions about the complexities of our relationship to eating animals, highlighting contradictions and anxieties.
Organized by the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery in collaboration with the Kenderdine Art Gallery, Dalhousie Art Gallery and Doris McCarthy Gallery.
About the Artist
Audio, media installation, and performance artist Rita McKeough has exhibited extensively in Canada since 1977 and has presented her work internationally. She has taught at various art institutions throughout Canada. McKeough has maintained a commitment to artist run centers, community based art, and music initiatives. Born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, McKeough studied printmaking and sculpture at the University of Calgary where she received her BFA. She went on to study at the NSCAD University where she was awarded her MFA in 1979. McKeough received the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2009.
