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Please join us for our upcoming Fall round of exhibitions. There will be snacks, drinks and the artists will be in attendance.
Window Space
October 17th – November 14th
Non-Functional Objects
Georgina Lee Walker
Non-Functional Objects in Space aims to explore the issues and questions surrounding the categorization of transitionary spaces, and Walker’s understanding of them. Her interest in construction materials stems from their capacity to influence space- they act as containers as well as disruptors. Oscillating between painting and sculpture, the work was created to explore the relationship of the objects to the space they occupy. Ambiguity and transformation are crucial to Walker’s work, allowing for collapse of the space, but also reconciliation. Stripped of their function, the materials become re-imagined as art objects, valued for their aesthetic and formal qualities.
Main Space
October 17th – November 8th
Beyond the Tropics
Curated by Sebastian Benitez
Emma Edghill, Sonet Providence, Bryan Bermudez, Talia Peckel, Daniela Jordan-Villaveces, Sebastian Benitez
Beyond the Tropics explores postcolonial issues and the search for local narratives within the work of a group of Toronto-based emerging artists of South American and Caribbean backgrounds. Emma Edghill, Sonet Providence, Bryan Bermudez, Talia Peckel, Daniela Jordan-Villaveces and Sebastian Benitez explore the subjugation of the landscape in relation to power dynamics, as well as the negotiation of the syncretic products of a colonial past. The artists’ local negotiations of identity politics become relevant as common threads through their different bodies of work.
Project Space
October 17th – November 8th
In Between Things
Jason Deary and Sean Stewart
In Between Things brings together the painting and sculpture practices of Jason Deary and Sean Stewart. Fully resolved works are presented alongside those in progress and those uncertain. The exhibition presents the collected work and materials of two ongoing and rigorous practices that look to understand something beyond themselves. The viewer is invited to walk through the artists’ investigations and participate in these conversations.
Jason Deary’s work is born out of work in galleries as a preparator and educator. His work explores the historical language and contemporary vocabularies of painting. Recently he has expanded into the realm of sculpture, exploring the relationship between object and image by translating his painting forms into physical objects and wall compositions into spatial relationships.
Sean Stewart’s work involves the investigation of structures and systems. Questioning forms, networks and their supposed functions, while also drawing inspiration from everyday systems such as railroads, bridges, gates, webs, geodesic domes, Stewart is looking to reform or imagine new and alternative possibilities. His work is executed through interdisciplinary practices. Painting, mark making and sculptural forms are explored to question spatial, physiological and symbolic connections and communication.
External Space
(Located on OCADU campus in the Learning Zone, and featured on xpace.info)
October 21st – December 1st
First Impressions (The Art of Boat Names)
Emily Waknine
First Impressions (The Art of Boat Names) is an animated video that features boat names coming into frame alphabetically. The transitions between words moving across a screen, and the concept of absurd names written on boats propelled this idea forward into its final animated form. First Impressions is imbued with various components of drawing, including paper texture, line and shape. It examines a predisposition in boat culture to identify oneself with graphic symbols and shrewd puns. At first glance, these words conjure imagery unrelated to boats; the ludicrousness of naming as a discrete act comes into play, as well as with the visual strength of mobile words.
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