Sharing a few pictures from my exhibition earlier this year at Capitol Threatre Art Gallery, Moncton, NB, Canada.
Exhibition Dates: Mar 06 - April 28, 2024
Thrilled to have had the opportunity to exhibit my work in this beautiful space. Thank you to everyone who came out to the opening or reached out to share thoughts.
It was a real honour to receive the Salt Spring Island Painters Guild Award at the Salt Spring National Art Prize Gala on October 19, 2019. It was a humbling experience to be selected and shown next to such talented artists from across the country.
Congratulations to the SSNAP 2019/2020 award winners:
SALT SPRING PRIZE – THE JOAN McCONNELL AWARD & RESIDENCY FOR OUTSTANDING WORK
$20,000 ($15,000 and a $5,000 Salt Spring Island artist residency)
Luther Konadu (Winnipeg, MB) Figure as Index
JURORS’ CHOICE AWARDS
Three awards of $3,000 selected by each juror
Sandra Meigs – Kaley Flowers (Toronto, ON) <esc><esc><esc>
David Balzer – Audie Murray (Victoria, BC) hambone, metis billy stick
cheyanne turions – Skawennati (Montreal, QC) Intergalactic Empowerment Wampum Belt (Xenomorph, Onkwehón:we, Na’vi, Twi’lek, E.T.)
PEOPLE’S CHOICE – ROSEMARIA BEHNCKE AWARDS
four awards determined by a vote of visitors to the exhibition
1st prize – $3,000, 2nd prize – $2,000, 3rd prize – $1,000, Youth vote – $1,000
Adult vote
1st – Tony Luciani (Durham, ON) Port-Kent
2nd – Steven Volpe (Orangeville, ON) Winter Gathering
3rd – Tim Alfred (Port Hardy, BC) Blue moon mask
Youth vote
Erika Dueck (St. Pierre, MB) The Sanctuary
SALT SPRING ARTISTS AWARD
for outstanding work by a Salt Spring artist – $2,000
Carol Narod (Salt Spring Island, BC) Married and single
SALT SPRING ISLAND PAINTERS GUILD AWARD
for outstanding two dimensional painted artwork – $1,000
Atefeh Baradaran (Vancouver, BC) Untitled (Hinged Take Off)
Two Honourable Mentions from the Jury
Violet Costello (Calgary, AB) Germaine
Anna Torma (Baie Verte, NB) Blue Cars
I am proud and honoured to have been selected as a finalist for the 2019/2020 Salt Spring National Art Prize.
Hinged Take off from the Departure Series is the piece accepted for admission in the show.
The exhibition is open daily September 21 – October 21, from 10am – 5pm.
Mahon Hall, 114 Rainbow Road, Salt Spring Island.
Thanks to Create! Magazine for the two full spreads in issue 16 (August 2019) and the online feature on the website. See the online post and a bit about my work here.
I am excited to be part of a two person exhibition, showing a series of my recent paintings alongside Lori Goldberg's at Deer Lake Art Gallery in Burnaby, BC.
The exhibition opens on Saturday, October 8th and is up for viewing until October 29th.
The show is now fully installed and we are all excited for the opening happening tonight at 6:00.
Many thanks to Cass Elliot for being such rockstar curator for this show. He even fed us ‘starving artists’ some major pizza during install. evidence bellow ;)
From left: Christelle Agahozo, Atefeh Baradaran, Cass Elliot - photo credit: Shannon Cowe
Here is the what and where:
Feeling proud to have my most recent painting, Out:l`O-O`k (as well as the ‘Inception’ painting from 2014, and an earlier sculptural work) being shown alongside some amazing art by other Emily Carr students at the Concourse Gallery. Many thanks to Cass Elliot for being such rockstar curator for this show titled “It could have been…”.
Out:l`O-O`k, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 1x2 meters