The Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum at Simon Fraser University, opening on 20 September, features the inaugural exhibition titled Edge Effects, highlighting an inter-disciplinary approach. Designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects, the 12,000 sq. ft museum includes various interconnected spaces such as an art studio and research laboratory. The museum aims to create a welcoming environment for artists and audiences, embodying the university's educational ethos. Director Kimberly Phillips emphasizes the museum's role in fostering creativity at the intersection of academia and community.
We imagine the Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum to be a place that, metaphorically speaking, encourages edge effects, referring to conditions created when two adjacent ecological communities meet.
The show encapsulates both the new museum's curatorial vision as well as architect Arthur Erickson's original inter-disciplinary ethos for the SFU campus on Burnaby Mountain.
Situated at the threshold of the university's academic community and energized by its context, the Gibson is committed to creating conditions for artists to thrive and for a diverse ecology of audience communities to feel at home.
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