Jérôme Delgado discusses the collaborative artworks presented as part of Flotsam and Oasis exhibitions, from Celia Perrin Sidarous and Marie-Michelle Deschamps respectively.
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Published in The Boston Globe, Murray Whyte reviews Erin Shirreff’s exhibition Remainders, presented at the Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA, USA).
As a sculptor, Shirreff’s eye for texture and form expresses itself photographically as a near genetic-level understanding of how light can visuallytransform the sculptural manipulations of material. That’s been true her entire career.
Murray Whyte, The Boston Globe, 2021
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The Scotiabank Photography Award recognizes the achievements of established mid-to-late career artists and in Canada’s largest and most prestigious annual peer-nominated and reviewed prize. The award celebrates the creative vision and accomplishments of some of the country’s most gifted contemporary lens-based artists.
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The Clark Art Institute is featuring a new year-long exhibition highlighting the work of contemporary artist Erin Shirreff. Remainders will run from January 16, 2021, to January 2, 2022.
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Marie-Ève Charron signs here an article in Le Devoir on Joseph Tisiga’s recent exhibition presented at Bradley Ertaskiran from November 7 until December 19, 2020
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Bradley Ertaskiran is thrilled to announce the acquisition of two Shaan Syed’s paintings by the National Gallery of Canada.
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left :
Double Minaret (with Sew Steps) 2, 2018
Oil on sewn canvas
294.5 x 244 cm (116 x 96 in.)
right:
Double Minaret (with half sewn disk), 2018
Oil on sewn canvas
294.5 x 244 cm (116 x 96 in.)
In Border Crossings (Vol. 39, Issue 155), Farid Djamalov signs an article on Rick Leong’s recent exhibition Carmanah presented at Bradley Ertaskiran from May 28 until June 27, 2020.
Leong capitalizes on the liminal times of day—from cadmium orange dawns to comforting dusks—to amplify the magical atmosphere in which mysterious phenomena emerge. Peculiar details provide fodder for the imagination: an ominous pair of yellow eyes inserted in shrubs, heart-shaped leaves lining a winding path, a bear cache looking like a large mushroom. All of these encounters with nature appear mediated. A mossy knotted rope in the foreground notifies us not to walk any further. A ribbon fastened around a tree presumably marks protection of the historical coastal biome. One of the landscapes is framed by the view from a neon orange tent, while smoke emanates from a luminous campfire in another painting.
Farid Djamalov
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Bradley Ertaskiran is delighted to announce representation of Dawit L. Petros.
The work of Dawit L. Petros is informed by studies of global modernisms, theories of diaspora, and postcolonial studies. Throughout the past decade, he has focused on a critical re-reading of the entanglements between colonialism and modernity. These concerns derive from lived experiences: Petros is the child of Eritrean emigrants, and spent formative years in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Kenya before settling in central Canada. The overlapping cultures, voices, and tenets of this constellation produced a dispersed consciousness, global and transnational in stance and outlook. His works aim for an introspective and textured analysis of the historical factors that produced these migratory conditions. Petros installs photographs, moving images, sculptural objects, and sound work according to performative, painterly, or site responsive logics. Moving between the works echoes the extensive travel taken to produce them; while recurrent visual or formal devices quietly indicate the complex backdrops against which his projects are set
Dawit L. Petros, born in Eritrea, lives and works in Montreal and Chicago. He holds an MFA in Visual Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston, a BFA in Photography from Concordia University, Montreal, and a BA in History from the University of Saskatchewan. Recent exhibition venues include the University of Buffalo Art Galleries, Buffalo (2020), The Power Plant, Toronto (2020), Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Chicago (2020), Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo (2020), 13th Biennial of Havana, Matanzas (2019), Huis Marseille Museum of Photography, Amsterdam (2018), Addis Foto Fest, Addis Ababa (2018) and Prospect.4 New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (2017). His works have been recognized with awards including an Independent Study Fellowship at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and an Artist Residency at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Dawit L. Petros’ first solo exhibition with Bradley Ertaskiran will occur in September 2021.
Bradley Ertaskiran is happy to highlight Joseph Tisiga‘s solo exhibition at the Musée d’art de Joliette from October 3 2020 to January 10 2021. This exhibition had been curated by Curtis Collins, Director and Chief Curator, Audain Art Museum.
This touring exhibition, organized by the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, BC, entitled Somebody Nobody Was…features Joseph Tisiga’s most recent efforts to push the cultural boundaries of what it means to be a person of First Nations decent in the twenty-first century.
Musée d’art de Joliette’s website
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Rick Leong is exhibited at the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art as part of a group exhibition titled RELATIONS: la diaspora et la peinture.
This group show explores the complex and multiple meanings of diaspora, its condition, and its experiences as expressed through painting. “The questions and concepts of diaspora are of deep, personal interest to me as a person of colour born in Canada of mixed Asian heritage,” says curator and managing director Cheryl Sim. The wide spectrum of productive interpretations and relations that are generated by experiences of diaspora remain unfixed, providing endless engagement with the notions of kinship and identity in a world of advanced globalization and migration.
From July 8 until November 29, 2020