Category: Gallery
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Olivia Brouwer
Contact by Olivia Brouwer Artist’s Statement: Art is often a domain that is inaccessible to the visually impaired. As a result, this community can feel marginalized and forgotten about. Too often we rely solely on the visitor’s sense of sight to create meaning from art. The on-going series, entitled CONTACT, aims to bring awareness to…
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Alexia McKindsey
Queensware & Jasperware by Alexia McKindsey Artist’s Statement: Alexia McKindsey’s practice derives from the spaces she’s lived and grown up in; spaces rich in familial narrative, heritage, and history. She is interested in the way our homes reflect the collective identity and mythologies spanning the generations of a family. Pulling from the physical facades, archives,…
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Violet Kumagai
Purple Girl by Violet Kumagai Artist’s Statement: My work is a reflection of the emotional struggle to balance childhood nostalgia with adult responsibility as I mature within a society that undervalues empathy and vulnerability. Creating art assists me in overcoming the anxiety associated with emotionally taxing life events while I have sought a form of…
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Eusebi Jucglà
An Unresolved Certainty Artist’s Statement: This is an installation that attempts to count grains of sand. Through the very simple act of counting, it tries to quantify the amount of grains that are in the sample given by the tipping bucket. This bucket tips when the constantly flowing sand overweighs its center of mass. Then…
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Galduryndari D
λ and φ by Galduryndari D Artist’s Statement: The piece “λ and φ” investigates the meaning of existing under the finite condition of time and space. One’s life, from birth to death, is similar to travel. One arrives and departs. One walks, takes routes, makes stops, and finds a hotel for the trip. There are…
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Niya Gao
Calculated Distance Artist’s Statement: I believe everything can be viewed as a structure- a result of its material, the environment, and history. I use copper pipes as the material to construct the geographical distance between each place and person, from my personal history and my family’s history. Each joint of the structure is a turning…
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Ali Arshad
The Land Beneath Me Moves “Influenced by the dialogue between gender, sex and identity, Arshad’s practice explores a profuse amount of possibilities across disciplines to displace socio-political norms. Arshad’s primary focus remains in developing narratives that are both diverse and versatile in their function and form in an effort to mark a discourse on the…
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Hau Pham
Fresh Pack Artist’s Statement: We often make quick assumptions of other people based off the things they choose to surround themselves with. The paintings I create are meant to be representative of my own connection, discovery, and interest in my cultural and religious upbringing. A large part of my body of work is formed by…
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Amelia Bidini-Taylor
Structures Series Artist’s Statement: Structures Series creates a balance between natural form and rigid structure. This series uses shapes and lines to create visual harmony, representing a metaphorical balance that can be applied to our lives. Between the organic and natural application of paint in contrast to the harsh, rigid structures and lines, this series…
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Sidi Chen
Scaling (Man on the Run) Artist’s Statement: My interdisciplinary practice engages with the intersectionality of the body and the environment, both physical and conceptual, to examine, reflect, and experiment on how identities and relationships are (de)constructed. For the research and creative process, I employ the body as a unit of measurement, a sensor of reception,…
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Sophie Le Blanc
Love and Logic Artist’s Statement: The two paintings both use the same base pattern, but on two different types of canvases, at a different scale, and with a different variety of line flow and colour combinations. To create the pattern, the canvas is divided into a diagonal grid, where each diamond shape is then…
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Lindsey Kemp
Whore’s Egg from Warsaw Artist’s Statement: Lindsey Kemp is a multi-disciplinary Acadian Métis artist currently residing in the Niagara Peninsula. She holds a BFA at OCAD University with a major in photography. Her work has been created throughout Southern Ontario and Newfoundland, and it has been shown both locally and internationally. Lindsey’s works have been…
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