Events
CORRESPONDENCES at Shenkman Arts Centre
A collaborative exhibition by 10 Canadian photographers that aims to cultivate greater intimacy with our co-respondents in the more than human world. It’s also a love letter to the world around us in all its beauty and brokenness. Sasha’s triptych, After the Flood, contemplates the ways in which we mark water and the way it marks us in the landscape. The images were taken in the aftermath of Toronto’s July 16, 2024, flood, which inundated the solo exhibition Shadowland at the City Builders Gallery at Evergreen Brick Works. Generously supported by the ARTicipate Endowment Fund.
Date February 21, 2025, to April 18, 2025
Time Open Monday to Saturday from 8:30 am to 10 pm, Sunday from 8:30 am to 8 pm
Location Shenkman Arts Centre, 245 Centrum Blvd., Orléans, Ottawa
SHADOWLAND at Evergreen Brick Works
Set among the historic kilns of Evergreen Brick Works, SHADOWLAND is Sasha Chapman’s first solo photography show. Viewers are immersed and implicated in a changing ravine underworld that features a “forest” of 12 floating images, soundscape and text. Ravines are Toronto’s defining topographical feature; they are also its defining metaphorical feature. Dark, mysterious, and often irrational, they function—as Margaret Atwood has suggested—as the city’s unconscious. SHADOWLAND challenges human-centric, rational understanding and gestures towards mythic and ecological interpretations of the watershed we all depend on. Part of Toronto’s 2024 CONTACT Photography Festival. Generously supported by Evergreen Brick Works and the Ontario Arts Council.
Date May 1, 2024, to December 31, 2024*
* On July 16, Evergreen Brick Works experienced waist-high flooding throughout the site and in the City Builders Gallery. Recovery efforts are ongoing. SHADOWLAND is closed until further notice.
Time 9 am to 5 pm
Location City Builders Gallery at Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview Ave., Toronto
Salon 44
Representing the best in Canadian photography, Salon 44 is Gallery 44’s annual fundraiser. A mix of 60 established and emerging photographers will be featured, including an image from Sasha’s WHAT THE RIVER CARRIES project. Examining the Tiber River and interrogating Rome’s imperial legacy in the Western world, WHAT THE RIVER CARRIES considers what it means to live downstream from Rome. Opening reception March 7 at 7 pm.
Date March 7 to March 16, 2024
Time Monday to Friday 11 am to 5pm, Saturday noon to 5 pm
Location Gallery 44, 401 Richmond St. W., #120, Toronto
Third Annual Juried Show at the Art Gallery of Mississauga
More than 300 emerging and established Ontario artists responded to the AGM’s open call. Jurors Noni Kaur, Sara Mozafari and Ed Pien carefully assessed the artworks on the basis of images and anonymous artist statements. The exhibition includes sculpture, textiles, photography, drawing and painting, as well as interactive, digital, and multi-media works. From delicately rendered formal explorations to assertive calls for social justice, this exhibition speaks to the incredible breadth of investigation that contemporary art embraces.
Date November 21, 2023 to January 14, 2024
Time Tuesday to Friday 10 am to 5 pm, Saturday and Sunday noon to 4 pm
Location Art Gallery of Mississauga, 300 City Centre Dr., Mississauga
