Artworks By: Abby Schreiber, Quinn Hopkins, Anna Nguyen, Ethan Platt, Jessica Lui, Vasundharra Sriganesh, Sara Khalil-Bayley, Anthony Micallef, Anam Feerasta, John Louie Calara, Sean Davidson, Adam Gourlay, Anita Lasek, Shinae Kim, Júlia Both Marchizio, Fay Pitsadiotis, Cathy Wong, Sarah Franzoi, Ysobel Balatbat, Chris Canales Cisneros, Rui Li, Ayomide Johnson, Parisa Shabani, Griffin McAllister, Veronica Wu, Esther Liang
This exhibition highlights the work produced by the Drawing and Painting first year OCAD U Students from the 2019-2020 school year from the classes of Scott Everingham, Marie Charbonneau, Rob Nicholls, Mary Porter, Elisabeth Stuart, and Julius Poncelet Manapul. “First Self: Investigating Cultural Appropriation” explores lived memories. A physical space where many of us reside located between the overlap and blending of experiences and memories, both imagined and real, the tangible and intangible, the physical space and the imagined space.
During their first year at OCAD University, Drawing & Painting students investigated the self while reflecting on ideas of cultural appropriation, memory and representation. Through the use of a variety of materials, colours and processes in mark-making the visual vocabulary taught throughout the term allowed them to create work that integrated multiple ideas and concepts. By using these ideas, students were asked to produce work that explores an altered and constructed memory using multiple image sources and materials from their direct life experiences, and diverse interpretations through cultural identity and sense of the self. The resulting work is a reflection of the spaces they occupy translated into a self-portrait.
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