Fall exhibition roundup
This season is full of exhibitions on and off campus that feature artworks and curatorial projects by members of the OCAD University community. Check out the shows below that spotlight the many talents of the students, staff, faculty and alums of OCAD U!
Mark Christopher Gallery
100 Symes Rd., Toronto, ON
Midnight Mountain
On until September 30, 2022
With works by Faculty of Art Instructor Rob Nicholls.
An exhibition of new oil paintings by Toronto-based artist, Rob Nicholls. Inspired by his childhood surroundings growing up in British Columbia, Nicholls portrays the mystery and seduction of fabled forests.
Smithers Art Gallery
1425 Main St., Smithers, BC
her name is Edzūdzah
On until October 8, 2022
With works by Faculty of Art Assistant Professor and Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design Graduate Program Director Peter Morin.
This exhibition is a tribute to the artist’s mother Janell, Edzūdzah in Tāhłtān. The photographs, textiles and objects on view honour her teachings and cultural expertise within the backdrop of her journey with Alzheimer's. Reflecting on the central role his mother has played in his creative practice, the exhibition celebrates his family as well as Tāhłtān language and land.
Onsite Gallery
199 Richmond St. W., Ground Floor, Toronto, ON
Souvenir: Jordan Bennett
On until December 10, 2022
Curated by Ryan Rice, Interim Executive Director and Curator, Indigenous Art at Onsite Gallery.
In Souvenir Jordan Bennett draws on the richness of Mi’kmaq material culture and design. His interdisciplinary approach integrates customary geometric motifs embellished with porcupine quillwork and basketry souvenir trade commodities, forms that thrived in the nineteenth century.
Art Gallery of Guelph
358 Gordon St., Guelph, ON
Homecoming
September 14 to December 21, 2022
With works by OCAD U MFA alums Justine Woods and Laura Grier and BFA graduate Anita Cazzola. Curated by Erin Szikora, Contemporary Art, Design, and New Media Art Histories MFA graduate.
An exhibition that considers the complexity and multiplicity of "home". The artists in the show ask where do we go when we don’t have home to return to? To many, this location or feeling has become elusive due to increasing social and cultural isolation and the threat of displacement.
113Research
113 McCaul St., Toronto, ON
Anthropogenic Anxiety
September 22 to December 31, 2022
An exhibition led by Faculty of Art Assistant Professor Pam Patterson.
The exhibition is an outcome of working alongside students, community members, galleries and professional colleagues in a creative investigation. Over 100 people joined to broadly explore visual mediums, personal narratives of the pandemic and the larger emerging anthropogenic era.
Darling Foundry
745 Ottawa St., Montreal, QC
Tu m'enveloppes et je te contiens [You envelop me and I contain you
September 22 to December 11, 2022
With works by OCAD U MFA alum Lan Florence Yee.
Working with the theme of memory, 10 artists were invited to revisit the history of the Darling Foundry site by proposing original works created in response to its programming, the objects in its art collection, its architecture or to its transition from its former status as an industrial ruin to that of a contemporary arts venue emblematic of Montreal's cultural scene.
OCAD University School for Continuing Studies
Online
In Touch (link forthcoming)
September 29 to December 1, 2022
With works by Continuing Studies Drawing Skills Studio 1 students Yi Mei, Karan Sidhu, Prasad Dalvi, Val Brubacher, Milan Kang, Neil Ornstein and Barry Strasbourg-Thompson.
The works in this exhibition are inspired by video and text prompts as well as online meetings and discussions led by instructor Travis Freeman, who is also an Educational Developer in the Faculty & Curriculum Development Centre at OCAD U.
Flying Books
784 College St., Toronto, ON
Marcas
October 2022 to February 2023
With works by Program Assistant, International Programs & Collaboration and 2017 Drawing and Painting alum Jasmine Cardenas. Curated by 2012 Criticism & Curatorial Practice alum Sagan MacIsaac (Sagan Editions).
In this exhibition Cardenas presents four abstract paintings that use layers of collage, found materials, recycled textiles, pumice stone and sand. Her unique combination of texture and a rich, vibrant palette creates images that evoke natural shapes (leaves, trees, flowers) and landscapes.
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
231 Queens Quay West, Toronto, ON
Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity
October 1 to December 31, 2022
Co-curated by Faculty of Arts & Science Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Visual Culture & Curatorial Practice, Dr. Gerald McMaster.
This exhibition explores the ways Indigenous contemporary artists and collaborators take on issues of climate change, globalized Indigeneity and contact zones in and about the Arctic and the Amazon during a time of crisis.
Office of Diversity, Equity & Sustainability Initiatives (ODESI) Gallery
100 McCaul, Room 316
Step on a crack...
October 6 to November 2, 2022
Featuring the work of Faculty of Art Assistant Professor Pam Patterson.
This exhibition features multi-media works by queer disability artist Pam Patterson that capture physical and visual (dis)ability perceptions.
