Curated by Crystal Mowry - Organized by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery - Circulated in partnership with the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina.
Spring/Summer 2024 Exhibitions
Deanna Bowen: Black Drones in the Hive
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Deanna Bowen, installation view of "Double Consciousness," Inkjet prints on archival paper. Installation view of Deanna Bowen's exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, installation view of "Double Consciousness," Inkjet prints on archival paper. Installation view of Deanna Bowen's exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Installation view of Deanna Bowen's "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, "Berlin Constellation." Installation of 18 inkjet prints on archival paper. Installation view of Deanna Bowen's exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Detail of "Berlin Constellation." Installation view of Deanna Bowen's exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Installation of "Berlin Constellation." Installation view of Deanna Bowen's exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, installation view of "Haldimand Tract." Installation view of Deanna Bowen's exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, detail of "Haldimand Tract." Installation view of Deanna Bowen's exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, installation of "Haldimand Tract." Installation view of Deanna Bowen's exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, "The Wars." Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, "The Wars." Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Detail of Deanna Bowen, "The Wars." Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, "The Wars." Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, "The Wars." Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, "The Wars." Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, "The Wars." Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, "Slavery." Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, "Slavery." Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, "Slavery." Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, "Abolition." Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Detail of Deanna Bowen, "Abolition." Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, "The branded hand of Captain Jonathan Walker, 1845," 2020. Inkjet print on archival paper. Courtesy of the artist and MKG127.
Deanna Bowen. “1911 Anti Creek-Negro Petition” from Immigration of Negroes from the United States to Western Canada 1910-1911, 2013. Inkjet print on archival paper, digitally sourced from original documents held in the Collection of Library and Archives Canada. Installation view of Deanna Bowen, "Black Drones in the HIve." Photo by: Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen. “1911 Anti Creek-Negro Petition” from Immigration of Negroes from the United States to Western Canada 1910-1911, 2013. Inkjet print on archival paper, digitally sourced from original documents held in the Collection of Library and Archives Canada. Installation view of Deanna Bowen, "Black Drones in the HIve." Photo by: Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen. “1911 Anti Creek-Negro Petition” from Immigration of Negroes from the United States to Western Canada 1910-1911, 2013. Inkjet print on archival paper, digitally sourced from original documents held in the Collection of Library and Archives Canada. Installation view of Deanna Bowen, "Black Drones in the HIve." Photo by: Blaine Campbell.
Installation view of 'Black Drones in the Hive." Deanna Bowen. “1911 Anti Creek-Negro Petition” from Immigration of Negroes from the United States to Western Canada 1910-1911, 2013. Inkjet print on archival paper, digitally sourced from original documents held in the Collection of Library and Archives Canada. Photo by: Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Interview with Deanna Bowen & Crystal Mowry. Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, installation view of "Taps." Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell. Performed by Charles Ellison and filmed on location at OBORO, Montréal.
Deanna Bowen, "Black Drones." Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Detail of Deanna Bowen, "Black Drones." Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, installation of "Black Drones" constellation. installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
"Horns" & “Moses Brantford Jr. Leading an Emancipation Day Parade
Down Dalhousie Street, Amherstburgh, Ontario.” 1894, Black & white print. Collected by Alvin D. McCurdy. Collection of Archives
of Ontario. Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
"Horns" & “Moses Brantford Jr. Leading an Emancipation Day Parade
Down Dalhousie Street, Amherstburgh, Ontario.” 1894, Black & white print. Collected by Alvin D. McCurdy. Collection of Archives
of Ontario. Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, detail of horns in Black Drones in the Hive, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. Photo: Toni Hafkensheid.
Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell. Deanna Bowen, installation view of Sophia Pooley and John Francis in A North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee: Or the Narratives of Fugitive Slave in Canada, Related by Themselves with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada by Benjamin Drew, 1856.
Deanna Bowen installation of the exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, installation view of "Double Consciousness," & Deanna Bowen, "After Wilhelm I." Fabrication by Britt Sostar. Installation view of Deanna Bowen's exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, installation view of "Double Consciousness," & Deanna Bowen, "After Wilhelm I." Fabrication by Britt Sostar. Installation view of Deanna Bowen's exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Installation view of Deanna Bowen's exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, "After Wilhelm I." Fabrication by Britt Sostar, & installation view of "Eugenics." Installation view of Deanna Bowen's exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Installation view of "Eugenics," & "After Wilhelm I." Installation view of Deanna Bowen's exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Installation view of "Eugenics." Installation view of Deanna Bowen's exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Detail of "Eugenics." Installation view of Deanna Bowen's exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, installation view of "Double Consciousness," & Deanna Bowen, "After Wilhelm I." Fabrication by Britt Sostar, & installation view of "Eugenics." Installation view of Deanna Bowen's exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Deanna Bowen, installation view of "Double Consciousness," & Deanna Bowen, "After Wilhelm I." Fabrication by Britt Sostar. Installation view of Deanna Bowen's exhibition "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Installation view of Deanna Bowen's "Black Drones in the Hive." Photo by Blaine Campbell.
