Summer/Fall Exhibitions 2021: RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting
RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting brings together artists who address questions of diaspora from diverse perspectives, methodologies, and aesthetic languages. Featuring 27 artists living and working across Canada, the US, and the UK, the exhibition explores the multiple and complex meanings of the idea of the diaspora, its condition, and its experiences as expressed in painting. First presented at the PHI Foundation, Montréal in 2020, we are proud to be able to extend this important exhibition and bring the work of these exceptional artists to Calgary. RELATIONS publication.
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Rajni Perera, <i>Ancestor 2</i>, 2019. Mixed media on paper, 48 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto.
Rajni Perera, <i>Ancestor 1</i>, 2019. Mixed media on paper. 48 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto.
Marigold Santos, <i>shroud (in threadbare light) 1</i>, 2020. Painting, acrylic, pigment, gesso on canvas. 40 x 72 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto.
Marigold Santos, <i>shroud (in threadbare light) 2</i>, 2020. Painting, acrylic, pigment, gesso on canvas. 40 x 72 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto.
Salman Toor, <i>Group</i>, 2020, Oil on board. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. Phoebe Greenberg Collection.
Maia Cruz Palileo, <i>Afterward</i>, 2019. Painting, oil on panel. 24 x 30 inches. From Young-Abraham Collection.
Rick Leong, <i>Goldstream</i>, 2019, oil on canvas, 96 x 72 inches. Collection Nick & Dale Tedeschi.
Firelei Báez, <i>Years of holding your tongue</i>, 2018. Drawing, gouache on paper. 98 x 56 inches. Rennie Collection, Vancouver.
Firelei Báez, <i>Years of holding your tongue,</i> 2018 (detail). Gouache on paper, 237.5 x 129.5 cm. Courtesy of Rennie Collection, Vancouver.
Firelei Báez, <i>Ooloi Ciguapa (mass pedigrees of masterpieces unsold)</i>, 2018. Drawing, gouache on paper. 96 x 51 inches. Rennie Collection, Vancouver.
Mathieu Manuel, <i>The Entrance</i>, 2019. Acrylic, charcoal, chalk, tape, fabric, oil sticks. Collection of Sylvi Plante & Neil Wiener. 90 x 90 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
Manuel Mathieu, <i>Imaginary Landscape</i>, 2020. Painting, acrylic, chalk, charcoal, tape, dust, silicone. 75 x 68 inches. Collection Desjardins.
Mathieu Manuel, <i>ST-Jak 3</i>, 2020. Acrylic, charcoal, chalk, tape, fabric, oil sticks. 80 x 75 inches. Courtesy of the Rozéfort-Racicot Family Collection.
Jinny Yu, <i>perpetual guest</i>, 2019. Mixed media, oil on glass, aluminum pipes, vinyl text. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist.
Moridja Kitenge Banza, <i>Chiromancie #9, No3</i>, 2019. Drawing, ink on mylar. 52 x 42 inches. Caisse de dépôt et de placement du Québec.
Hurvin Anderson, <i>Welcome: Carib</i>, 2005. Painting, oil on canvas. 150 x 211 cm. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery.
Hurvin Anderson, <i>Mrs S Keita</i>, 2001. Painting, oil on canvas. 140 x 100 cm. Collection Martine d'Anglejan & Dara Khera, London.
Shanna Strauss, <i>Bee-Keeper</i>, 2019. Mixed media, photo transfer, acrylic, fabric, found wood. 53 x 36 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
Jessica Sabogal & Shanna Strauss, <i>We Are Bridges</i>, 2020. Mixed media, spray paint, photo transfer, acrylic. 8 x 13 feet. Courtesy of the artists.
![In a street-level window gallery space, which has a pale pink painted floor and walls, a life-size pink ceramic female figure stands on a low circular plinth that is covered in white and red fake fur. On the floor around the figure are several dark green and blue snakes. The body and head of the figure is covered in clay forms of flowers and leaves, the figure has long pink hair that almost reaches the floor. The hands are holding pink hair strands which have snake heads. On the wall behind the figure are several yellow ochre, orange and pink ceramic flower heads.]](https://eskerfoundation.com/assets/Kustec-4-300x200.jpg)
![In a street-level window gallery space, which has a pale pink painted floor and walls, a life-size pink ceramic female figure stands on a low circular plinth that is covered in white and red fake fur. On the floor around the figure are several dark green and blue snakes. The body and head of the figure is covered in clay forms of flowers and leaves, the figure has long pink hair that almost reaches the floor. The hands are holding pink hair strands which have snake heads. On the wall behind the figure are several yellow ochre, orange and pink ceramic flower heads.]](https://eskerfoundation.com/assets/Kustec-3-300x200.jpg)
![In a street-level window gallery space, which has a pale pink painted floor and walls, a life-size pink ceramic female figure stands on a low circular plinth that is covered in white and red fake fur. On the floor around the figure are several dark green and blue snakes. The body and head of the figure is covered in clay forms of flowers and leaves, the figure has long pink hair that almost reaches the floor. The hands are holding pink hair strands which have snake heads. On the wall behind the figure are several yellow ochre, orange and pink ceramic flower heads.]](https://eskerfoundation.com/assets/Kustec-2-300x200.jpg)
![In a street-level window gallery space, which has a pale pink painted floor and walls, a life-size pink ceramic female figure stands on a low circular plinth that is covered in white and red fake fur. On the floor around the figure are several dark green and blue snakes. The body and head of the figure is covered in clay forms of flowers and leaves, the figure has long pink hair that almost reaches the floor. The hands are holding pink hair strands which have snake heads. On the wall behind the figure are several yellow ochre, orange and pink ceramic flower heads.]](https://eskerfoundation.com/assets/Kustec-6-300x200.jpg)
![In a street-level window gallery space, which has a pale pink painted floor and walls, a life-size pink ceramic female figure stands on a low circular plinth that is covered in white and red fake fur. On the floor around the figure are several dark green and blue snakes. The body and head of the figure is covered in clay forms of flowers and leaves, the figure has long pink hair that almost reaches the floor. The hands are holding pink hair strands which have snake heads. On the wall behind the figure are several yellow ochre, orange and pink ceramic flower heads.]](https://eskerfoundation.com/assets/Kustec-7-300x200.jpg)
