SALON 44: GALLERY 44 FUNDRAISER

Exhibition: March 7th to 16th, 2024

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 7th, 2024, 7:00 – 10:00 PM

Representing the best in Canadian photography, Salon 44 brings together an incredible collection of over 60 established and emerging artists with works priced for both new and seasoned collectors alike. As a non-profit, artist-run centre and community organization, Gallery 44 relies on this fundraiser to support Proof, our annual exhibition of photo-based work by Canadian emerging artists, and our award-winning education programs for youth in underserved communities. Salon 44 is co-chaired by Emilie Croning and Maegan Broadhurst.‍

Make a difference‍

All proceeds from the sale of the artworks directly support our charitable mission to support artists through meaningful production, education and exhibition opportunities.

‍Artist Books and Publications

With the revival of Gallery 44’s publishing program through Writer-in-Residence publications (Letticia Cosbert Miller’s book in 2022 and Nic Wilson’s book in 2023), Salon 44 will include a publication section for the first time, including G44 publications and a curated selection of books and zines from the membership and friends of the gallery. Publication sales will support the Writer-in-Residence publication program and the facilities’ library.

Participating artists include:‍

Ademola Oladipo, Alex Kisilevich, Amber Helene Müller St. Thomas, Ananna Rafa, Angela Lewis, Anique Jordan, Ashley Culver, Bahar Kamali, Beau Gomez, Ben Dickey, Benjamin Freedman, Brendan George Ko, Bridget Moser, Caeden Wigston, Caroline Mauxion, Camille Rojas, Caroline Mauxion, Christina Oyawale, Colin Miner, Cruz, Dainesha Nugent-Palache, Delali Cofi, Elise Rasmussen, Finn O’Hara, Ghislan Sutherland-Timm, Grace Wang, Hannah Sommers, Hannah Doucet, Holly Chang, Jackson Klie, Jamie Campbell, Jasmine Liaw, Jessica Thalmann, John Delante, Jorian Charlton, José Andrés Mora, Joy Adeola, Julie Pasila, Karice Mitchell, Karishma Pranjivan, Laura Margaret Ramsey, Laura Kay Keeling, Leila Fatemi, Liana Schmidt, Maryanne Cassanta, Mike Goldby, Natalie Hunter, Nellie Jalalzadeh, Shannon Garden-Smith, Soft Turns, Susy Oliveira, Stephen Attong, Steven Beckly, Tobi Asmoucha, Tom Hsu and many more!

Image: Edges, cyanotype on organic cotton, 2023, Amber Helene Müller St. Thomas.

IT’S RAINING SOMEWHERE: PROJECT SPACE AT BANFF CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

June 7th 2023, 4:00-7:00 pm

The exhibition, It’s Raining Somewhere represents the five weeks of intensive research and artistic explorations of the 2023 Spring BAIR Program. Throughout the residency artists have worked with themes such as; grief, desire, collaboration, labour, landscapes charged by human presence, and material experiments. Practices within the varied group range from using colour as a tool to create restorative spaces that bring joy to utilizing screen printing as a political gesture. The group contains artists that work in the fields of filmmaking, community organization and activism, sculpture, photography, printmaking, performance, ceramics, clay, collage and drawing and painting. The works included trace the conceptual and aesthetic concerns of the participating artists and converge at a meeting point of making and bonding as a group during times of disaster, grief and processing.

It’s Raining Somewhere combines these practices of sensual materiality, acts of protest, and investigations of identity. The exhibition includes ceramic figures and objects with layered and painterly surfaces that hint to an interest in the body, storytelling, and connection to the land. The exhibition will coincide with the Banff Centre for the Arts Open Studio Event on June 7th from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.

Participating Artists: Natalie Waldburger, Ana Kapodistria, Caroline Macfarlane, Dion Smith-Dokkie, Amber Helene Müller St. Thomas, Edward Bader, Elyse Longair, Jinseok Choi, Kristine Mifsud, Marcel Grimard, Margot Klingender, Sky Weir, Stacey Johnson-Hardy, Teresa Dorey and Megan Feniak.

THE NEW YORK ART RESIDENCY AND STUDIOS (NARS) FOUNDATION ARTIST IN RESIDENCY PROGRAM

Principles of Existence
February 25 - March 22, 2022
NARS Foundation
Brooklyn, New York

Principles of Existence brings together a series of explorations on how relationships are organized and experienced. The insistence on coming together and on subverting the ways in which touch and connection can happen in our current days, prevail as essential needs. The works in this exhibition stem from the observation of encounters -human and not human-, and from the negotiation between tensions, languages, forms of communication, imbalances, and losses that can come from these interactions.

Mostly research based, the processes of these artists consist of collecting and analyzing words, stories, places, objects, textures, landscapes, species and experiences that are meaningful, and question our need for coexistence, in order to reaffirm ourselves. The results are translated into painting, sculpture, installation, video, textiles, drawings and performance.

With works by Chris Agnew, Giovanni Chiamenti, Eun Young Cho (Choey), Barnett Cohen, Katie Hubbell, Liva Isakson Lundin, Hyemi Kim, and Amber Helene Müller St. Thomas.

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Retrograde Loops (by Amber Helene Müller St. Thomas) is a series of aprons embroidered with the names of queer, communal spaces that have permanently closed due to the pandemic. The work is intended to memorialize and lament these lost spaces, connections and experiences. Spaces for queer women, non-binary people and queer femmes have been severely affected by the pandemic, and many different communities have been left wondering how they might recover.

The series includes both hand and machine stitched embroideries on different styles of aprons. Some of the place names are rendered in colours that reference queer flags. Certain aprons are meant to be touched by members of the public and even added to, while others are performance props that have been used in live happenings that explore the relationship between service jobs and gender.

Limited Capacities is one textile piece from the series. Made from a kitchen apron, the names of bars and restaurants that have permanently closed have been hand embroidered in red thread. A blank area and extra thread have been left to allow visitors to add to the piece. The project encourages contributors to remember and mourn the loss of community spaces where we used to gather and congregate. Limited Capacities was shown at the NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, New York as part of the exhibition, Principles of Existence. This residency was generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Documentation credit: Amber Helene Müller St. Thomas

Pi*llOry

Reciprocal Measures
Sunday, July 18, 2021
3:00 p.m.
Barbara Park Hall, Toronto

Reciprocal Measures is a performance that examines the weight of emotional and physical labour. The work explores the gendered expectations of women and femme queer bodies. The day prior the artist baked in preparation. Then, wearing kitten heels and a metallic bikini they wore a device constructed of metal chains, locks and wood to serve cakes and bread in celebration of the second anniversary of the Pi*llOry performance event on Sunday July 18th 2021. The 30+ pound apparatus was carried on the artist’s shoulders around Barbara Hall Park in the Church and Wellesley Village in Toronto for over 200 meters. The gesture was rooted in exchange, vulnerability and trust.

Special thanks to event curator and artist Holly Timpener and to Ahmed and Gwen. Thanks also to Natalie Logan and Yuula Benivolski for documenting the event. Thank you to everyone who watched and participated.

Pi*llOry book release event performers include: b wijshijer, [ field ] Coman Poon & Brian Smith, Leena Raudvee, Amber Helene Müller St. Thomas, lo bil, Tess Martens, Johannes Zits, Sheri Osden Nault, and Holly Timpener.

Documentation credit: Yuula Benivolski

PRESENTLY, A JURIED EXHIBITION: ART GALLERY OF PETERBOROUGH

On view from Nov. 26th 2020 to May 2nd 2021, and can also be viewed online: https://agp.on.ca/exhibitions/presently/

Participating artists include:

Peter Barron, JoEllen Brydon, Tia Cavanagh, Christian Chapman, John Climenhage, Megan Cole, Tonya Corkey, Fiona Crangle, Andrew Cripps, Sadiqa de Meijer, Jordan Dunlop, Teri Donovan, Holly Edwards, Henry Fernandes, Carol Forbes, Ale Groen, Julianne Gladstone, Jessica Hanzelkova, Emma Hesse, Ashley Johnson, Darcie Kennedy, Eryn Lidster, Jane LowBeer, Tara Lynn MacDougall, Katika Marczell, Beth McCubbin, Ian McLean, Andrew McPhail, Amber Helene Müller St. Thomas, Yuripman Napoles Pereira, Alissa Ohashi, Paul Oldham, Kelly O’Neill, Tristan Peirce, Nadja Pelkey, Alison Postma, Andrew Rabyniuk, Matt Rogalsky, Emma Schnurr, lo scott, Sheldon Storey, Wendy Trusler, Joel Matthew Warkentin, Jem Woolidge, Brandon Wulff, and David Yu.

In September of this year, the AGP promoted a call for submissions inviting artists to submit new, recent, or past works that resonate with the contemporary moment. A jury comprised of Sonya Jones (Curator of Collections at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery), Dyan Marie (practicing artist and a founder of C-Magazine, Cold City Gallery, DIG IN, Walk Here, Dupont Projects, BIG: Bloor Improvement Group, and the BIG On Bloor Festival), and Clayton Windatt (a Métis non–binary multi-artist currently Executive Director of the Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference/La Conférence des collectifs et des centres d’artistes autogérés) selected from works submitted by 179 artists living across Canada and beyond. The Art Gallery of Peterborough is grateful for the care, dedication, and experience they contributed to this process. Sonya, Dyan, and Clayton wish to extend their deepest appreciation to all those who applied and express the awe they felt learning about your work. It was a truly impressive response.

This moment, complex and layered, merits a complicated response. Gathered here are works bringing forward themes of transition, anxiety, frustration, comfort, boredom, resistance, vulnerability, urgency, and resilience. Expressed through painting, needlework and textile, installation, film and video, photography, pottery, image transfer, drawing, text, collage, printmaking, assemblage performance, and sculpture, a conversation between artists who may never meet face-to-face hums and ticks in aggregate.

Please Note:

The Art Gallery of Peterborough is open to the public Thursday to Sunday from 11am to 5pm, by appointment. We ask all visitors to book their appointment by calling us at 705-743-9179. Each appointment will be 45 minutes long.

Installation view, from left: Tonya Corkey, David Yu, Emma Schnurr, Tara Lynn MacDonald, Nadja Pelkey.

VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK

The Venice International Performance Art Week CO-CREATION LIVE FACTORY 2020 "Dissenting Bodies Marking Time" is a residential performance program consisting of eight days of intensive co-creation workshop processes for 60+ international artists selected through an Open Call in tutor groups.

This is followed by a four days program of performances open to the public on January 15-18, 2020, at the ART WEEK venue Palazzo Mora.
The culmination of the co-creation process will be open to the audience: we will transform the venue together into a dynamic performance site through a series of collective performance operas, as well as collaborative and solo performances.

These days will see live performances of durational, solo or collaborative works of this year's 60+ international artists of the "Co-Creation Live Factory”. Our Guest Artists of Honour will perform live on Saturday, 18 January. The Study Movie Room and film screenings are open all days.

TUTORS
Marilyn Arsem, VestAndPage, Andrigo & Aliprandi

GUEST ARTISTS
https://veniceperformanceart.org/the-art-week/co-creation-live-factory-2020/artists/guest-artists

SPECIAL EVENT | FILM SCREENING
Irene Langemann & Pyotr Pavlensky, "Pavlensky – Man and Might"
Paul King & Jon John, Hearts in Sorrow – A Story of Ashura in Iran
Hugo Glendinning & Adrian Heathfield, "Spirit Labour"
VestAndPage, "Plantain"
+ MORE: https://veniceperformanceart.org/the-art-week/co-creation-live-factory-2020/artists/special-event-film-screening

STUDY MOVIE ROOM Curated by VestAndPage and Joseph Morgan Schofield. With the cultural contribution of Live Art Development Agency - LADA.
Marilyn Arsem, Ron Athey, Wafaa Bilal, selina bonelli, daz disley, Franko B, Cassils, bob flanagan, Guillermo Gomez Pena, Jon John, Oleg Kulik, Boris Nieslony, Kira O' Reilly, Julie Tolentino, Preach R Sun, George Chakravarthi, Adam Patterson, and Morgan Quaintance.
+ MORE: https://veniceperformanceart.org/the-art-week/co-creation-live-factory-2020/artists/study-movie-room)

TUTOR GROUPS

Marilyn Arsem: Michael Barrett (US) • Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu (TR) • Nina Claire Espedal Drew (NO) • Yujie Gao (CN) • Andrea Greenwood (UK) • Andriy Helytovych (UA) • Jolanda Jansen (NL) • Yuki Kobayashi (JP) • Barbara Kowa (DE) • Eliza Krikoni (GR) • Georgia Lale (GR) • Sol Enae Lee (KR) • Rachel Lindsay-Snow (US) • Randa Reeda Mahmout (CA) • Ilze Mazpane (LT) • Iievi Meltaus (FI) • Salla Talvikki Nieminen (FI) • Natalia Panfile (MD/US) • Antoine Para del Pozo (FR) • Paul Regan (IR) • Sara Simeoni (IT) • Sandra Stanionyte (LT) • Erica Storer de Araújo (BR) • Holly Timpener (CA) • Martin Toloku (GH) • Gamze Öztürk (TR) • Nic Wilson (CA).

VestAndPage | ANDRIGO&ALIPRANDI: Norhaizad Adam (SG) • Ingrid Adriaans (NL) • Ronald Bal (NL) • E. M. Alysse Bowd (CA) • Fay Burnett (UK) • Mitchell Chalifoux (CA) • Renzo de Pablo (AN) • Silvia del Grosso (IT) • Tyler Hallett (US) • Sylwia Hanff (PL) • Arturo Herrera (US) • Allison I. Hournak (US) • Frauke Huhn (DE) • Andreja Kargačin (RS) • Carmen Lafran (IT) • Magdalena Leite & Aníbal Conde (UY) • Tess Martens (CA) • Ashley-Louise McNaughton (UK) • Philemon Mukarno (ID/NL) • Rebecca O'Brien (UK) • Rachel Parry (UK) • Anna Valeska Pohl (DE) • Kahn Jinoh Ryu (KR) • Amber Helene Müller St. Thomas (CA) • Ida Sophia (AU) • Pierce Starre (UK) • Jessica van Deursen (NL) • Emma Varker (AU) • Juan Carlos Villalba del Castillo (ES) • Gülhatun Yıldırım (TR).

+ MORE: https://veniceperformanceart.org/the-art-week/co-creation-live-factory-2020/artists/tutor-groups
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The VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK "Co-Creation Live Factory 2020 Dissenting Bodies Marking Time" is a project realised under the patronage of Regione del Veneto by VestAndPage, Studio Contemponaeo and Live Arts Cultures non-profit Cultural Associations, in collaboration with We Exhibit and Venice Open Gates. With the mayor support of European Cultural Centre and ConCAVe. Artists are presented with the kind support of Stichting Stokroos, Stroom Den Haag, DaDa Fest, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Ali Betil.

https://veniceperformanceart.org/the-art-week/co-creation-live-factory-2020

SUPERCRAWL

Entering its 10th year, Supercrawl is taking place September 13-16, 2018 along James Street North. Supercrawl Hamilton is administered by Jordyn Stewart in conjunction with the festival’s Visual Arts Committee (which includes Melissa Bennett, Ivan Jurakic, Annette Paiement, and Carol Podedworny).

An eclectic array of contemporary artists will be showcased — NEDDA BABA & AMBER HELENE MÜLLER ST. THOMAS, VANESSA CROSBIE RAMSAY, ROBERT HENGEVELD, CHRISTOPHER MACLEOD, MEGAN PRESS, and AL RUNT — in both officially curated installations and parallel projects. 

Nedda Baba & Amber Helene Müller St. Thomas (Toronto, ON)

A work of performance art, Remembrance Reiterated consisted of writing the names of the 49 victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, on the walls of the 519 (a 2SLGBTQQIPA+ community center in Toronto). In paying respect to those victims, the artists also included names of those who lost their lives in similar tragedies around the world, drawing attention to the countless other hate crimes that go unnoticed on a regular basis. The work is documented in a striking mural. The Art Gallery of Hamilton co-presents Remembrance Reiterated in association with its Hamilton Now: Subject exhibition, on view through November 18, 2018.

Special thanks to Supercrawl, Jordyn Stewart, Melissa Bennett, Ivan Jurakic, Annette Paiement, and Carol Podedworny.

Documentation Credit: Amber Helene Müller St. Thomas

ART GALLERY OF HAMILTON: Hamilton Now Catalogue

Hamilton Now accompanies a two-part exhibition curated by Melissa Bennett that presented the work of seventeen local artists and art collectives at the Art Gallery of Hamilton: Subject was on view from June 22 to November 18, 2018, and Object was on view from December 8, 2018 to May 20, 2019. The catalogue includes texts by Melissa Bennett and Tor Lukasik-Foss that examine the current Hamilton art scene and the dominant concerns explored in the exhibition, such as gender, race, queer identities, family history, psychological and spiritual perception, and architectural explorations of space. Additionally, distinct sections for each artist in the catalogue contain detailed illustrations alongside a text or illustration by the artist.

Featured artists: Nedda Baba and Amber Helene Müller St. Thomas, Kiera Boult, Lesley Loksi Chan, Masoud Eskandari, John Haney, Becky Katz, Leslie Sasaki, David Trautrimas, Donna Akrey, Christopher Reid Flock, Destiny Grimm, Hamilton Perambulatory Unit (HPU), Svava Thordis Juliusson, Carmela Laganse, Laura Marotta, Taien Ng-Chan, Persons.

Hardcopies are available at the Shop at AGH, or on Amazon for $25. Digital copies can be read on any device, and are now available on Amazon and Google Play for $10.