We're excited to announce Erica Jochim as the recipient of the Open Studio, Archive and Collections Assistant Career Launcher. Erica will join the Open Studio team to create a formalized archive of donated prints created at Open Studio over 50 years and multiple locations.
Erica Jochim is a Mississauga based artist with a BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD U. As an artist of mixed Caribbean and European descent, her work expresses in-between spaces and multifaceted viewpoints. Her paintings combine historical, contemporary, and personal influences. Inspired by the dramatic lighting and colour palette of Renaissance and Baroque paintings, she combines historical and contemporary compositions to comment on intersectional issues. She seeks to highlight the importance of looking at the world through a critical lens.
Website: www.ericajochim.format.com
Instagram: @ericajochim
Open Studio is an Artist-Run Centre dedicated to contemporary print. Open Studio offers accessible, inclusive and affordable printmaking facilities, programs and services for artists and the public from across Canada and abroad. They support artists in the creation and exhibition of contemporary print in an open-minded, safe and collaborative environment. Their vision is to shape the exploration of print as essential, dynamic, and relevant to contemporary culture and creative thought.
https://careerlaunchers.format.com/openstudioarchiveandcollectionsassistant