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Opening Date: Sept. 5, 2024 – 4:30-6pm
Location: George Fry Gallery, 408 Queen St, Fredericton, NB E3B 1B6
As the summer winds down, the anticipation is building for the next major milestone in Connexion ARC’s 40th-anniversary celebrations. We are thrilled to invite you to the opening of our exhibition, Across the Threshold, which will take over the George Fry Gallery from September 5th to October 2nd, 2024.
Across the Threshold invites a reflection upon the chthonic elements of home, from within the wooden walls and roof of a house to the small creatures of feather and flower that live across the threshold. Through soft sculpture, film, photography and interactive installation, explore the careful relationships between nature and our constructed world. Between the mediums presented, a narrative is built, like the spider’s routes along her web, to walk us through our impact, our heavy tread upon the ground and how we are implicated in the health of our natural environment.
We are proud to feature a curated selection of works from an incredible group of local/regional artists:
Ry O’ Toole, D’Arcy Wilson, Anna Torma, David Zsako, Nat Cann, Caitlin Wilson, Gillian Dykeman
Ry O’ Toole is a filmmaker and video artist known for creating immersive, textured moving-image projects that often explore the possibilities of digital media and light. D’Arcy Wilson is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice examines colonial history and the ongoing human interaction with the natural world, often highlighting the tension between our affection for nature and our tendency to harm it. Anna Torma, a highly acclaimed textile artist, brings her internationally recognized expertise in hand-embroidered wall hangings and collages that weave together domesticity, history, and personal narrative.
David Zsako creates intricate photo-assemblages that delve into the human condition, identity, and the natural world, blending the beautiful with the grotesque to reveal the biological and chemical foundations of our existence. Nat Cann is a visual artist whose print and painting practice examines the “haunting” of lands, focusing on the ideologies of colonial heritage and the environmental degradation often left in its wake. Caitlin Wilson is a printmaker and educator whose work is deeply rooted in the landscape, often using woodcut and intaglio techniques to explore our personal sense of place and connection to the wilderness. Gillian Dykeman is a multi-disciplinary performance and installation artist who works through an intersectional feminist and postcolonial framework, creating playful, critical, and participatory experiences that empower audiences to engage with their surroundings in new ways.
This exhibition presents a selection of incredible works from these members, and we can’t wait to share it with you! Join us at the George Fry Gallery to explore these narratives and celebrate four decades of artist-run culture in New Brunswick.
Huge thanks to the New Brunswick College of Craft & Design for co-hosting these works.
