September 1, 2021
Bradley Ertaskiran is pleased to announce the acquisition of two Dawit L. Petros works by the Art Gallery of Ontario: Act of Recovery (Part II), Nouakchott, Mauritania (2016) and A Series of Complicated Ambivalences (2016).
To consult Dawit L. Petros’ profile, click here.
September 2021
Writer Joanna Fox meets Janet Werner in her studio for a feature about her art practice published in ELLE Canada for their September 2021 issue.
August 2021
In Border Crossings (Vol. 40, Issue 157), Anaïs Castro signs an article on Marie-Michelle Deschamps‘ exhibition Oasis presented at Bradley Ertaskiran from February 11 to March 13, 2021.
To read the full article on Border Crossings’ website, please click here.
Bradley Ertaskiran is thrilled to announce that Julia Dault will be taking part in the first edition of Greater Toronto Art, a triennial survey organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art. This exhibition, curated by Daisy Desrosiers, Rui Mateus Amaral and November Paynter, features twenty-one of the most energizing artists and art collectives working in relation to the city today.
The exhibition will open on September 29, 2021.
For the inaugural edition of Gallery Weekend Montreal, Bradley Ertaskiran is delighted to announce that Janet Werner will be present at the gallery for the last day of her exhibition, Sunday, June 13 to meet with visitors.
To celebrate this event, Baluchon Food Truck will be on site from 1pm to 4pm.
In order to meet the standards of the sanitary measures in place, our courtyard will be open to the public in the event that visitors must wait to enter the gallery.
Published in the Montreal Gazette, T’Cha Dunlevy writes about the work of three Montreal artists currently exhibiting in the city. Janet Werner discusses her exhibition There There, shown at the gallery until June 13, 2021.
To read the article online, please click here, or you can download a PDF version here.
To consult the artist’s profile, please click here.
Bradley Ertaskiran is delighted to announce the representation of Preston Pavlis. His first solo exhibition, titled Still ready to curse and rage, will take place from June 23 to July 31, 2021, in the bunker space.
Preston Pavlis’ work on canvas and fabric represents his interest in the fusion of painting and textiles as a means to explore narrative, form and color. Focused on poetic association and metaphor, the resulting works in oil, embroidery, and collage are personal charts for time and memory. The works situate solitary figures on often non-descript grounds, their gazes shift between the viewer and somewhere beyond the space of the spectator. Whether their expressions are pensive, contemplative, ebullient, or intent – there is an interiority that is palpable. Pavlis’ figures convey a subtle energy and a deep sense of presence that is enhanced by their imposing scale.
Pavlis was born in Loma Linda, California, and currently lives and works in Edmonton, Alberta. He was Alberta’s regional winner of the BMO 1st Art Competition in 2019 and was recently shortlisted to the 2021 Eldon + Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize. He has presented his work in group exhibitions at Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, at Half Gallery, NYC, and at the John & Maggie Mitchell Gallery, Edmonton. His work has also been included in recent art fair presentations including Frieze New York and NADA Miami.
To consult the artist’s profile, please click here.
Border Crossings (Vol. 40, Issue 156) published an interview led by Robert Enright with Shaan Syed.
Your palette is quite intriguing. What determines your colour choices?
Colour is really important to me. I want the colour to point to something that you may not be expecting. I realized this a couple of years ago after a trip to Marrakesh. The whole city is painted this pale, dirty pink colour. I remember asking a cab driver why everything was painted that colour. I was expecting a deep historical answer. All I got was, “Oh, it’s Marrakesh; that’s the Marrakesh colour.” It made me think about colour being intrinsic to a place. Of course, upon further research you learn that the dirty pink came from the earth at some point, but now they just paint all the buildings this colour because it’s “Marrakesh pink.” It made me start thinking about colour in a very specific way: How can colour point to a different time, or a different place, or a period?
Extract from the interview with Robert Enright
To order a copy of Issue #156 of Border Crossings, please click here.
Published in La Presse, Éric Clément reviews Janet Werner’s exhibition There There, presented at the gallery until June 13, 2021.
To read the article online, please click here, or you can download a PDF version here.
To consult the artist’s profile, please click here.
Jean-Michel Quirion signs an article on Marie-Michelle Deschamps’ solo exhibition presented in the Bunker space of the gallery, in early 2021.
To read the full article online on Vie des Arts’ website, please click here.