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.
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.
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
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.
October 8, 2022
Bradley Ertaskiran is pleased to announce the launch of Janet Werner’s newest publication, Sticky Pictures, co-published by Griffin Art Projects and Figure 1 in collaboration with the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
Sticky Pictures examines and celebrates the evolving work of Montreal-based artist Janet Werner. In her paintings, Werner builds a constellation of spatial and figurative explorations drawn from fashion magazines and art history to create collage-like composite figures that slip easily between articulations of beauty, gender, psychology and emotion.
Join us at the gallery on Saturday, October 15th, from 1 to 3 PM to celebrate the launch of the book. Janet Werner and authors François LeTourneux and Ara Osterweil in attendance.
To consult Janet Werner’s profile, click here.
May 31, 2022
Bradley Ertaskiran is pleased to announce the acquisition of Erin Shirreff’s Monograph (no. 3) (2012) by the National Gallery of Canada.
To consult Erin Shireff’s profile, click here.
May 2022
Bradley Ertaskiran’s booth at Independent, featuring works by Joseph Tisiga and his mother, Sally Tisiga, is selected by Artsy as one of New York Art Week’s best booths.
To consult a PDF version of the article, click here.
To consult the article on Artsy, click here.
To discover Joseph Tisiga’s artistic practice, artworks, and resume, click here.
May 2022
Joseph Tisiga is featured in ELLE Canada’s May 2022 issue, discussing the Yukon Art Prize, his sources of inspiration, and the thriving Yukon art scene with writer Joanna Fox.
To read the article, click here.
To discover Joseph Tisiga’s artistic practice, artworks, and resume, click here.
May 3, 2022
Congratulations to Stephanie Temma Hier, who is longlisted for the 2022 Sobey Art Award.
Presented annually, The Sobey Art Award is the pre-eminent prize for emerging Canadian artists of all ages. The 2022 Sobey Art Award is jointly administered by the National Gallery of Canada and the Sobey Art Foundation.
For more information on the Sobey Art Award and to consult the full list of finalists, click here.
In Esse (issue 104 – Collectives), Farid Djamalov reviews Preston Pavlis’ first solo exhibition, Still ready to curse and rage presented at Bradley Ertaskiran from June 25 to August 7, 2021.
To read the review on Esse’s website, click here.
To consult the PDF version, click here.
To consult Preston Pavlis’ profile, click here.