Jana Sterbak: Dimensions of Intimacy – Upcoming!

Description

Available for purchase online and in the gallery from 5 December 2026.
Book launch on Saturday 5 December at Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver.

This vital publication accompanies the landmark 2025-2028 travelling exhibition Dimensions of Intimacy. The exhibition was first presented at Esker Foundation in the fall of 2025, with variations presented at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in fall 2026, The Rooms in 2027, and at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in 2028.

Jana Sterbak: Dimensions of Intimacy extends the exhibition curated by Naomi Potter to further consider the artist’s pivotal contributions to contemporary art through the reflections of sixteen curators and art historians: Chloé Ariot, Sandra Barré, Catherine Bédard, Mojeanne Behzadi, Ray Cronin, Elizabeth Diggon, Mireille Eagan, Ihor Holubizky, Magdalena Holzhey, Melanie O’Brian, Naomi Potter, Diana Sherlock, Johanne Sloan, Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre, Shauna Thompson and Adam Welch. This large-format, hardcover catalogue is edited by Naomi Potter and co-published by Esker Foundation, Calgary; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver; Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton; and The Rooms, St. John’s. In the publication, each of the writers focus on a single, or cluster of works, allowing the texts to accumulate into a multifaceted reflection on the dualities, tensions and frictions that animate Sterbak’s practice, illustrating the profound impact her work has had on contemporary art over the course of nearly fifty years.

Dimensions of Intimacy, presents Sterbak’s work from 1979-2023, including innovative early work that pushed material and sculptural norms, wearable structures that merged object with performance, significant video and film work, as well as rarely exhibited artist editions, photographs, and drawings from the artists own collection. Provocative material exploration is central to Sterbak’s practice. Often noted as being difficult to classify by medium or style, it is precisely this resistance to conformity that makes her material choices so surprising and powerful.

$50 CND
Hard cover, large-format.
Dimensions: 12 x 9.5 inches.
152 pages, 58 colour images.
Designed by Public Eye, Calgary.
Printed by FriesenPress Book Publishing, Manitoba, Canada.
16 texts published in English.
Writers: Chloé Ariot, Sandra Barré, Catherine Bédard, Mojeanne Behzadi, Ray Cronin, Elizabeth Diggon, Mireille Eagan, Ihor Holubizky, Magdalena Holzhey, Melanie O’Brian, Naomi Potter, Diana Sherlock, Johanne Sloan, Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre, Shauna Thompson and Adam Welch.
ISBN: 978-1-0695169-4-7

Co-published by Esker Foundation, Calgary; Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver; and The Rooms, St.John’s.