2022 Exhibitions
I’ll Be Your Mirror
February 2 - April 9, 2022
Curated by Crystal Mowry
This exhibition convenes the work of contemporary artists who enlist their parents in their practice. Working across various lens-based strategies to revisit found images and reflect on notions of inheritance, each artist proposes multiple ways of understanding familial intimacy. Some choose to engage their parents as performers in both absurd and poetic capacities, as a subject or a disembodied narrator. Others lean on their parents to provide a tether to the past that questions the formation of identity while redressing invisibility. Tender and unflinchingly honest, these works spur us to think about how expectation inevitably shapes intergenerational relationships, often in ways that only make sense when we are grown
Organized and circulated by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
La Rábida Soul of Conquest: An Anishinaabe Encounter
April 22 - June 18, 2022
Reception May 13, 2022 at 7-9 PM
Special Live Choral Performance at 8 PM
The development of La Rábida, Soul of Conquest: An Anishinaabe Encounter began as a re-examination of the legacy of Columbus from an Indigenous perspective and became a broader investigation into the religious justification for the seizure of land and the subjugation of Indigenous populations in the Americas. Devine gathered primary source material from Europe and the Americas, seeking Indigenous and non-Indigenous documents on the cultural confrontation following the Columbus landing. The artist references these documents through painting, drawing, video, sculpture and an original commissioned choral work by David DeLeary.
Beneath the Mask: Symbols as a Healing Phenomenon
Darla Fisher-Odjig
April 22 - June 18, 2022
Reception May 13, 2022 at 7-9 PM
A long-time resident of Chatham-Kent, Darla Fisher-Odjig walks through two worlds. As a visual artist, poet, and art therapist, she presents work that is alternately challenging and healing. Her lyrical paintings sweep the viewer into worlds both familiar and dream-like, but always ground themselves in realities that cannot be denied.
Lay of the Land
Collected Works: Part Three
April 22 - June 18, 2022
Reception May 13, 2022 at 7-9 PM
In this, the third part of the Thames Art Gallery’s exploration of the permanent collection, the focus turns toward the landscape. Not only is the landscape still one of the most popular genres in painting, it also stands as the first form of environmental art within the European canon. As we celebrate Earth Day, there remains a growing sense of urgency to better understand our sense of place and our irrefutable connection to Nature.
DAEMON & SAUDADE
Colleen Schindler-Lynch
July 2 - August 27, 2022
Reception July 29, 2022 during ARTcrawl
In the exhibition, Daemon & Saudade, Colleen Schindler-Lynch addresses grief, loss and preservation through a series of photographs, sculptural garments and memento mori that reveal the beauty, pain and complexity of emotions. Fugitive events and fleeting recollections were explored through journaling and photographing. The intangibility of stories and memories has been given a tactile presence as objects before they dissolved into gossamer-thin memories. Collectively this work captures and preserves the marks left on us by the experiences we live. Whether the loss of a loved one or a relationship, grief is intimate and highly personal, yet it is something we collectively experience — a condition, a state, and a process we all share.
Being. Neither here nor there.
Grahame Lynch
July 2 - August 27, 2022
Reception July 29, 2022 during ARTcrawl
In Grahame Lynch’s recent body of photographic work, “Being. Neither here nor there,” images that have been shot on trains, subways, buses and in airports gesture toward themes of immediacy, delay and agitation. Collectively this body of work represents gaps in time that are chaotic, fragmented and isolating, while they coalesce in frenetic compositions of shifting locations and people. The photographic processes exploit technological glitches that occur as a result of speed and motion and the work has been subjected to digital, mechanical and chemical interventions. The resulting images depart from photographic traditions that have a single frame of reference, often appearing spatially compressed and optically imprecise.
Assorted Boxes of Ordinary Life
Amy Friend
September 9 – November 5 2022
Opening Reception: September 16, 2022 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
What do you do when you are given a small box of items containing personal documents, photographs, and objects? In this exhibition Amy Friend works with these materials and bridges them with anonymous and familial Super-8 film as a means of contemplating how identity is composed of both fact and fiction.
Call for Participation with artist Amy Friend’s exhibition “Assorted Boxes of Ordinary Life”
Deadline: August 24- 27, 2022
The Thames Art Gallery would like to offer our community an opportunity to collaborate with the artist Amy Friend in her upcoming exhibition, “Assorted Boxes of Ordinary Life.” This exhibition draws inspiration from a small box of keepsakes and photographs that came into the artist’s possession.
Call for Submissions: Eye 4 Art 2022
Call for Submissions: Eye 4 Art 2022
Eye for Art is an exhibition open to all Chatham-Kent artists. All media accepted. All works must be original and completed within the last two years. A maximum of 3 works may be submitted by each artist. All works must be for sale and include sale price. Submission deadline is October 19-22, 2022.
For complete submission information please view the Submission Application