Through a Glass Lightly: A series of work by women disability artists.

WIAprojects’ Artistic Director & Curator: Pam Patterson (FoA, OCAD) w/ Leena Raudvee

Opens October 2019 and runs to June 2020, Wed – Sunday 1 - 6pm.

WIAprojects@1313, Window Box Gallery, 1313 Queen Street West

Artists’ perspectives as persons with disabilities inform a vision of the world which can be unique - personally, visually, politically. The exhibition series, Through a Glass Lightly induces the Window Box Gallery to act as a looking glass site that reflects back to the viewer changing images of the world - the seasons and times of day/night play over the window surface altering the images within. This exhibit invites others to see not only slightly askew but anew! To see our "acts" as creative offerings. 

Oct – Dec: where water lived by Tegan Smith

Fragments from artist Tegan L. Smith’s past work are framed by a map from a 2012 showcase project about the fluctuating Lake Ontario shoreline. Struggles to reclaim material for art, while industrial economies careen through environmental crises, is evident in this past works. Following 2015 radiation and chemotherapy, bouts of fatigue underscored the energy toll. Water health is conflated with the theme of women aging with disabilities.

Thank you to Philip Dyke, Eduardo Padilla and Michelle Johnson & the Canada Council for the Arts.

Upcoming:

Dec / Jan – Nat Piper

Feb – Tari Ito

March – Elaine Stewart

April – Churla Burla

May – Loree Erikson

June - Artifacts