The Year We Disappeared
January 9-March 4

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Wanda    - a mover between painting and drawing, often combining the two mediums. While generating ideas for more complex and larger works, Lock prefers to work on a large number of drawings until some cohesive narratives start to emerge. In her statement reproduced in this catalogue, she points out that she still relies on basic principles of art-making which influence how she approaches her subject matter. Lock’s works are inspired by mundane things ‘around the house’, everyday objects, interiors, landscapes, and small animals and insects.

Wanda Lock

Roman Charity
January 9-March 4

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“Milk Portraits” series integrates silkscreen and milk paint to depict mothers who have covered their faces instead of their breasts while breastfeeding. The series includes three large self (effaced) portraits on fabric depicting the last time Passmore nursed her daughter. The images are based on photographs that circulated on social media in protest to admonishment that mothers should cover up while nursing in public. Nursing covers remain the only instance in which western women veil themselves. Discomfort with breastfeeding may arise from the fraught nature of human milk as a substance that is both nourishing and abject, or an inability to view breasts outside the scope of sexual gratification. Passmore points out, "However, by exaggerating the disruption of mother and child feeding relation I intend to reveal an under-examined motive for discomfort with breastfeeding – that it is a powerful display of human interdependence."

Heather Passmore

Fear Frequency
January 9-March 4

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Fear Frequency will explore these ideas by creating a space where human-nonhuman binaries are rendered obsolete. It shows that they are not in opposition, but constantly flowing in and out of one another. Something like an incorporeal slime that connects me to my dirt bike or to my cellphone. Human-snowmobile-hybrids conquer mountains and human-kayak-hybrids conquer rapids. Left to its own devices, a human body cannot conquer very much.  

Mat Glenn

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MMIW
January 9-March 4

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Kama? Creative Aboriginal Arts Collective is a diverse group of First Nations artists working in a variety of media ranging from traditional to contemporary. The group addresses various issues concerning cultural, political, and historic topics including the contemporary subject of cultural identity. The 2020 exhibition titled MMIW addresses the important themes surrounding the poignant circumstances in cases of murdered and missing indigenous women.

Kama? CREATIVE Aboriginal Arts Collective