December 2023
Final Fantasy, Azza El Siddique’s installation at Art Basel Miami Beach, is selected as one of the best booths of the fair.
Artsy, 2023 | The 10 Best Booths at Art Basel in Miami Beach: Azza El Siddique
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Jeremy Shaw represented by Bradley Ertaskiran
November 24, 2023
Bradley Ertaskiran is delighted to announce the representation of Jeremy Shaw. The artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery will take place in fall 2024.
Jeremy Shaw works in a variety of media to explore altered states and the cultural and scientific practices that aspire to map transcendental experience. Often combining and amplifying strategies of verité filmmaking, conceptual art, music video and scientific research, he creates a post-documentary space that complicates expectations of image as a form of testimony. Shaw has had solo exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Paris, MoMA PS1, New York, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, and MOCA Toronto, and been featured in international surveys such as the 57th Venice Biennale, 16th Lyon Biennale and Manifesta 11, Zurich. In 2016 he was awarded the Sobey Art Award and in 2018 was artist-in-residence at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Works by Shaw are held in public collections worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Tate Modern, London, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
The Musée d’art contemporain of Montreal will present Phase Shifting Index, a major work by the artist, starting December 12, 2023 at the Fonderie Darling.
Click here to consult the artist’s profile.
Photo: Alex De Brabant, 2023
Azza El Siddique featured in Art Basel Stories
November 13, 2023
Featured in Art Basel Stories: an exploration of Azza El Siddique’s practice, as well as her upcoming installation at Art Basel Miami Beach.
“Memory – a kind of time travel – also plays a role in El Siddique’s installation Final Fantasy (2023), to be presented by Montreal-based gallery Bradley Ertaskiran in Art Basel Miami Beach’s Positions sector (the fair debut for both artist and gallery). Like her previous installations, the structure resembles a sacred space like a pyramid or temple, but also evokes the feeling of, say, a laboratory. ‘The installation reflects my younger years, when I played role-playing PlayStation games with my late brother,’ El Siddique explains. ‘These games feature narratives that remain relevant in our contemporary world: overconsumption, corporate greed, exploitation of natural resources, religious extremism, oppressive governments, natural disasters, pandemics, and so on.’”
Jareh Das
To read the full article, click here.
To consult Azza El Siddique’s profile, click here.
Dawit L. Petros, finalist of the Prix Louis-Comtois
November 18, 2023
Congratulations to Dawit L. Petros, finalist of the Prix Louis-Comtois, presented by the city of Montreal and AGAC.
Dedicated to mid-career contemporary artists, the Prix Louis-Comtois recognises excellence in visual arts.
To consult Dawit L. Petros’ profile, click here.
To learn more about the Prix Louis-Comtois, click here.
Stephanie Temma Hier in Artnet News
September 30, 2023
Stephanie Temma Hier is featured in Artnet News, discussing her experience as a self-taught ceramist, her sources of inspiration, and experimentation in her practice.
To read the article, click here.
To consult Hier’s profile, click here.
Book Launch: Veronika Pausova, Fast Moving Sun
September 30, 2023
Bradley Ertaskiran is pleased to announce the launch of Fast Moving Sun, a limited-edition artist book documenting Veronika Pausova’s major 2022 solo exhibition at the Esker Foundation.
Designed by Emily Tu in collaboration with Pausova, this richly illustrated artist book offers new, in-depth insight into Pausova’s studio practice, and the impressive scope of her visual explorations with paint. Fast Moving Sun features texts by Elizabeth Buhe and Elizabeth Diggon, and a conversation between Pausova and Sky Goodden.
Join us at the gallery on Saturday, September 30th, from 1 to 3 PM to celebrate the launch of the book. Veronika Pausova will be in attendance.
To consult Pausova’s profile, please click here.
Stephanie Temma Hier Artwork Acquired by the Mint Museum
August 10, 2023
Bradley Ertaskiran is thrilled to announce Stephanie Temma Hier’s recent institutional acquisition.
Her work A friend is an enemy you can’t see (2023) is now part of the permanent collection of the Mint Museum, Charlotte NC.
Veronika Pausova artwork acquired by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
May 26, 2023
Bradley Ertaskiran is thrilled to announce Veronika Pausova’s recent institutional acquisition.
Her work, Wading Sun (2021) is now part of the permanent collection of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. This work was acquired by the museum with support from the Marie-Solange Apollon Fund.
To consult Veronika Pausova’s profile, click here.
Alexa Hawksworth Represented by Bradley Ertaskiran
January 2023
Bradley Ertaskiran is delighted to announce the representation of Alexa Hawksworth. The artist’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery will take place in May 2023 in the Bunker space.
Hawksworth populates her oil paintings and graphite drawings with both fantastical and realistic characters unique in their exaggerated gestures and expressions: grimacing teeth, elastic limbs, and unhinged cackles show a dizzying range of physical and psychological states. Her scenes are often imbued with an innovative sense of movement and time, as bodies and objects are propelled across the canvas or captured by the whims of a powerful environmental force. Together, her work shows an imagined, off-kilter world in which desire and emotion burst from the body and collide with the physical realm with maximum, high-velocity impact. Drawing from theatre, performance, and film sources, Hawksworth’s distinct illustrative style combines meticulous rendering with bold painterly gestures, set to an electrifying colour palette.
Alexa Hawksworth (b. 1994; Hamilton) is a painter and illustrator based in Montreal, Canada. Hawksworth received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University in 2020. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Theta (New York), and Pangée (Montreal) as well as a forthcoming solo exhibition at Bradley Ertaskiran. Recent group and duo exhibitions include Franz Kaka (Toronto), NADA Miami with Bradley Ertaskiran, Sibling Gallery (Toronto), Projet Casa (Montreal), and Afternoon Projects (Vancouver).
To consult Alexa Hawksworth’s profile, click here.
Photo: Fatine Violette Sabiri
Azza El Siddique represented by Bradley Ertaskiran
October 21, 2022
Bradley Ertaskiran is delighted to announce the representation of Azza El Siddique. The artist’s first solo exhibition with Bradley Ertaskiran will take place in March 2023 in the Bunker space.
Known for large-scale sculptural environments, multidisciplinary artist Azza El Siddique combines steel and ceramic sculptures with ephemeral matter to explore ritual, mortality, and memorialization. El Siddique’s practice is multi-tiered and open-ended, encompassing site-specific sculpture, wall-mounted steel panels, clay vessels, video, and combinations of these. Her vast architectural installations incorporate custom-engineered water, light, and heat systems to showcase materials and objects in varying states of entropic transformation. Over time, the artist’s elements gradually erode and mutate into unpredictable and evocative states; water droplets oxidize metal sculptures and unfired clay, revealing dynamic rusted surfaces, while heat lamps activate sculptures made of bakhoor, among other complex material transformations. Playing the role of both archeologist and alchemist, El Siddique deploys sensorial elements throughout her work, often drawing from her research into Sudanese perfumery, Nubian and Egyptian histories, Islamic mortuary rituals, and the artist’s recollections of her Sudanese community in Canada.
Azza El Siddique (b. 1984 Khartoum, Sudan) lives and works in New Haven, CT. Recent solo exhibitions have been presented at MIT List Visual Arts Centre (Cambridge), Helena Anrather (New York), Cooper Cole (Toronto), and Towards (Toronto), among others. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at MOCA Toronto, Gardiner Museum (Toronto), Oakville Galleries (Toronto), Shin Gallery (New York), Green Hall Gallery (New Haven), and Bradley Ertaskiran (Montreal). El Siddique received an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2019 and a BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2014. She was a Skowhegan resident in 2019 and is a 2022 finalist for the Sobey Art Award, issued by the National Gallery of Canada.
To consult Azza El Siddique’s artist profile, click here.