Throughout her decades-long practice, she has made little distinction between her life and her artwork: they are inseparable. In her recent work, Itkonen creates figurative paper sculptures that recall her relationship with her mother, who remained in Finland when she came to Canada. Her treatment of domestic subject matter and adeptness with human form culminate
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Using landscape paintings by French artist Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875) as a point of departure, Friesen explores notions of influence, quotation, authorship, and the “real” in the age of digital reproduction. Image Credit: Christopher Friesen, Les Petits Denicheurs, 2017, oil and acrylic wash on canvas 72″x47.5″. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Neufeld’s expansive and playful approach to exhibition-making conflates artistic and curatorial conventions while loosely tethering strands of narrative and pictorial traditions with an overarching sense of theatricality. The Projectionist includes periodic performances by a local actor who engages with objects and ideas in the exhibition. Performance times are as follows: Saturday, March 10, 4pm
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This large-scale installation and experimental soundscape draws analogies between human bodies and the global ocean. Sculptural forms based on ancient water-going vessels and constructed from willow, dogwood, fig, and cedar branches, cheesecloth, animal skin and gut, bathymetric maps of oceans, and layers of wax are suspended in a dimly-lit gallery and accompanied by a haunting soundscape.
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