Traces
2:00pm - 9:27am
2:00pm - 9:27am
Artwork exploring memory, featuring students from OCAD U’s School of Continuing Studies.
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Language of Ashes 2.1
Resin block, print ashes, 4” x 4” x 3.5”, 2020
Language of Ashes is a series that explores indeterminacy. This resin block contains my old hand-pulled prints that have been burned. The block represents memory and plays with the notion that traces of memory are both absent and present. By burning the prints and creating this piece there was no elimination, it’s an act of transformation.
Sense of Place
Mixed media on cardboard, 50cm x 65cm, 2021
“War was over. I still remember the shadow of my grandmother on shattered windows.
The last thing that I wanted to have, was my grandmother’s necklace…”
Homage to Painting
Acrylic, acrylic skins, clockwork, 1.5v battery, 24K gold leaf, graphite, Opus Art Supply packaging, Vancouver Art Gallery packaging and Victoria Art Gallery packaging, 20” x 16” x 2”
Prayers For My Children
Acrylic, 24k gold leaf, powdered pigment, interference gel, pouring medium, gels and molding paste mediums, 16” x 20"
Memory, time, and sustainability are considered to reflect upon the past and the future of our children.
Close your eyes, make a wish and let your dreams come true.
A highly coterminous creation from an ongoing series of sculptures originally envisioned during recurring REM dreams of the artist. This work explores how we navigate culture through the visual symbology historically associated with The North Star and starlight during a phase of self-doubt and oppression, characterized by the solar eclipse.
Megan Gellatly
Recollections of Toronto
Fabric, thread, photo-transfer paper, ink, 37" x 74.5", 2014
This tapestry explores the artist's memory growing up in Toronto and the vast number of visual stimuli that Toronto offers, from various styles of architecture to graffiti and street signs to natural greenery.
Fun and Games
Oil on birch plywood, 6” x 8”
Midday Midsummer
Oil on wood, 6” x 8”
These monochromatic paintings refer to black and white photographs and evoke memories and feelings of nostalgia. They reflect the passage of time.
Dude, Where's My Car?
Year after year with so many new experiences, when someone asks us to recall a certain point in time, vivid memories turn into blurry fragments.
Red Elegance
Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season
Poem by Forugh Farrokhzad
"And this is I
a woman alone
at the threshold of a cold season
at the beginning of understanding
the polluted existence of the earth
and the simple and sad pessimism of the sky
and the incapacity of these concrete hands."
Carlea Blight
One of Four
One of Four considers the structure of family and interrupts our own perceptions of this institution. This story layers the filmmaker's pain in the present with material memories from her past as she seeks resolution.
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