Each September, the Visual Art & Art History Department at York University kicks off the exhibition season with a show of incoming and returning students in our Graduate Program.
Our programming this year (roman numeral MMXXI) is no different than last year: our physical galleries remain shuttered to visitors. But hope springs eternal! In the meantime, we are very pleased to present this exhibition of work by our wonderful students working in very diverse ways.
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ABRAHAM OGHOBASE
ANDREW HARDING
ANNIE DUNNING
Annie Dunning is a 3rd year PhD student working with sound-sculpture. Her work considers areas of cultural overlap between species and how co-habitation and mutual influence shapes spaces.
CATHERINE HOIS
CLAIRE GREENSHAW
Working from a feminist perspective and using humour as a tool, I draw images that range from private marginalia to iconic cultural artifacts in order to examine the status of drawing in the contemporary context. I’m interested in labour and time, gender and the body, and how these intersect with the politics of image production in the digital age.
CORYNN KOKOLAKIS
Corynn Kokolakis is a figurative painter whose practice explores the disparate roles of mother and artist. This work is a personal reflection on the tension of solitude and indefinite holding within a space of beauty, safety and comfort.
D’ANDREA BOWIE
Throughout the pandemic, my studio practice has focused on deepening a knowledge of the chemistry encompassing ceramics and glaze, furthering an aim to evolve narratives surrounding raw material extraction and how it applies to sculpture. Expanding on the ‘Affordance’ series, material and process will be explored when considering the visual language of sculpture that exists in the public realm; or yet to be imagined, seeking out what a partnership with landscape and material might look like.
ELISA VITA
ERICA STOCKING
FEHN FOSS
Fehn Foss (she/her) is a lens-based artist and writer working in Tkaronto/Toronto.
JASMINE CANAVIRI
JESSIE KITCHEN
Jessie Kitchen is a multidisciplinary artist and poet currently working in Toronto, Ontario.
JIM RUSSELL
JO YETTER
Over time the artist’s baby blankets have been shedding fragments that are then collected and saved for repurposing. The work contemplates the materials changing function, as it is no longer a part of the original form.
KASIA SOSNOWSKI
Kasia Sosnowski (she/her) is a ceramic artist from Southern Alberta – her work emphasizes the importance of play and subconscious narratives
LISA CRISTINZO
My work explores how the non-human and inanimate world shapes our social, political, cultural, and ecological landscape, in co-authorship with the human and animate world. I am using the theme of fire and its process as a metaphor, an illustration of environmental impact as a response to materialism – where the narrative of danger and comfort is contingent on the materiality of the object, its relationship to space, and the process of fire it will eventually endure.
MAEGAN HARBRIDGE
This series of abstract paintings employs a reverse painting methodology, using latex masking fluid, to arrive at compositions that can be considered as a type of eco-aware, existential landscape. Just as land is formed and reformed with each enacting relationship, the material and formal processes that these paintings are contingent upon mirror the making and unmaking state of all things.
MICHELLE PERAZA
PHIL DELISLE
RACHAEL DODGSON
Informed by spontaneous gestures, Rachael Dodgson’s abstract imagery and mark-marking is an evolving autobiographical language that translates her subconscious into visual form.
SHAWN GREY