2023 Exhibitions
What Lays Beneath: A Retrospective of Works by Leonard Jubenville
January 27 - March 26, 2023
From the first, thin layer of glazed oil paint to the last, Leonard Jubenville has built a celebrated career by taking us just beyond the surface of the seen. Optical plays of light elicit volumes of crisp, clear air. Glassy surfaces of water hide the depths we know to be there. With an irrepressible delight in colour and composition, it is through the unmarred surfaces of his paintings that the viewer is ultimately transported beyond the material to experience the world anew. Whether Jubenville turns his eye to the common objects of daily life, the picturesque expanse of the landscape, or its steady evolution into the Anthropocene, there is something equally beautiful and unsettling uncanny about his vision.
The Floating World
Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints from the Hortense and John Sloan Gordon Collection
January 27 - March 26, 2023
Exemplifying the influence of Japanese Culture on the development of modernism in the West, TAG’s collection of Ukiyo-e prints was assembled by artist/educator Hortense Gordon. She used these prints to illustrate modernist principles, but Ukiyo-e continues to hold significant influence over contemporary culture. Their engagement with craftsmanship, disregard for hierarchy in matters of medium, and their embrace of popular subject matters combine to create a nodal point as we continue our transition into the digital age including the current fascination with anime.
Tether
April 6 - June 4, 2023
The often invisible work of caregiving is constant and undervalued. Tether explores narratives of motherhood and correlated themes, including artwork by April Hickox, Natasha Lan, Jennifer Long, Kelly O’Brien, Theola Ross, Arpita Shah, and Jessica Wohl. This group brings together parents of toddlers, children with disabilities, and school-aged youth, who have actively explored their personal experiences of being or becoming a parent within their practice. From sewing to film-making and photography, this collection of artworks ranges from works produced three decades ago to the current moment. Interweaving themes relating to the experience of time, visibility, intimacy and memory, these artists examine their relationships with parenting and their larger connection to the world in which we live.
the signs appear as in aspic: Kim Neudorf
June 16 - August 13, 2023
Exhibition Catalogue with essay by Laurence Pilon
In the signs appear as in aspic, horror-adjacent, cinematic imagery is reimagined as transgressive access to queer and trans embodiment through processes of collage and painting. Alluding to the hapless protagonists in the Daphne Du Maurier gothic novel and 1973 film version of Don’t Look Now, the exhibition’s title refers to a failure to notice warnings of future events as left by more psychically connected past selves. These warnings are “not threatening to those who cannot read the signs,” but for those who can, the signs appear as “in aspic.” Relating this premise to their own work and life, Neudorf asks: What is needed to be known and seen as a queer and trans subject, what conditions of visibility are necessary in that being knownness, and what tools – built out of necessity and survival – have been left in the present by a self (or selves) from the past?
Mind Field
June 16 - August 13, 2023
Mind Field contains the work of four artists, Lesley McInally, Darlene Pratt, Dushka Vujovic and Andrea Vuletin. Together, they share a camaraderie that crystalized through the course of the pandemic. As anxiety and isolation took root, so too did the opportunity to reinvest in new pathways and methods within their studio practices. From struggles against social alienation, emphasis on safeguarding personal perimeters, emotional exhaustion, and a desire to tell the stories behind liminal social spaces, these artists collectively present work that is committed to the personal and motivated by renewal.
Ontario Biennial Juried Exhibition
Ontario’s Emerging and New Generation Artists
August 25 – October 22, 2023
Opening Reception: August 25 | 7:00 – 9:00 PM
This exhibition invites new generation and emerging artists living and working in Ontario to submit up to three works for jurying and exhibition. This exhibition will identify and offer a survey of new works by new generation artists with a particular focus on emerging artists living in the Southwest Ontario region.
Skids, Skips and Prints: Lowell Bradshaw
November 3, 2023 – January 14, 2024
Opening Reception: November 3 | 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Pushing digital information into new forms of visual possibility, Lowell Bradshaw, manipulates images drawn from electronic media to make room for multiple readings and contextual tension within the field of painting. Bradshaw enlists the pleasure of looking to animate his work, engaging seduction, curiosity, and the drive to uncover new and liberating spaces.
November 3, 2023 – January 14, 2024
Opening Reception: November 3 | 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Local artist and art therapist Krista Schneider shares a passion for art and people living with dementia. This exhibition is a culmination of art programs and workshops she delivered across Chatham-Kent. This exhibition highlights shared experiences and the joys of artmaking across a broad spectrum of abilities and life phases.