EventsExhibition tours with artists and curators / right before the winter launch party!
January 26, 2025
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Don Kwan, "Self Portrait of the Artist, Chinese Wallpaper Series," 2018, mixed media, spray paint and acrylic paint on archival paper. Collection of Barry Ace and Earl Truelove.
A unique take on two exhibition tours, with friends!
Come for tours of our two winter exhibitions – The Air of the Now and Gone and Wan Word – at 1:30 and stay for the launch party at 2:30. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome!
From 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.: Join informal conversational tours of The Air of the Now and Gone and Wan Word with the curators and several of the artists.
From 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.: Join us for the launch party, which features light refreshments and tunes by MusicByJayel. Opening remarks at 3:00 p.m. (with ASL interpretation).
Access: CUAG is an accessible space with barrier-free washrooms and an elevator. This event will require moving around the gallery. Light chairs are available. A microphone will be used.
Construction: A big construction project at the north of campus has changed the usual access routes to CUAG. Check the visiting page of this website for access details.
Parking: Discount passes ($5.00 flat rate) will be available for purchase from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. for parking in P18 (the big parkade over the O-train tracks). Gallery staff will be standing outside the P18 parkade right before the entrance.
Kanna Anigbogu (Toronto, ON) is an artist from Nigeria with a distinctive style of continuous intuitive single-line-work, gestural imagery, and overlay inspired by Igbo (south-eastern Nigerian) folklore and essence.
Maude Arès (Montreal, QC) is an interdisciplinary artist who uses installation, sculpture, performance, set design, and drawing to examine sensitive relationships among materials, most of them found, some of them broken.
Don Kwan (Ottawa, ON) turns to his own experiences and challenges of being a gay, East Asian artist as a way to ground in broader conversations about identity, representations, and intergenerational memory-making in the diaspora.
Fusing printmaking, sculpture, and site-specific installation, Colin Lyons’ (Binghampton, NY) work employs the chemistry of etching to consider preservation in an age of planned obsolescence and resource depletion.
Cynthia Girard-Renard (Quebec) has been developing a multilayered work where political activism, identity issues and animal imaginary come together through a broad range of techniques.
Kirsty Robertson (London, ON) Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Museums, Art and Sustainability, and Professor and Director of Museum and Curatorial Studies at Western University.
Sarah E.K. Smith (London, ON) is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University, Sarah also holds the Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Art, Culture and Global Relations.
Yanaminah Thullah (Toronto, ON) is a multidisciplinary creative and community builder of Sierra-Leonean and Liberian descent, whose diverse practice is rooted in her lived experiences and her passion for world-building, informed by her studies in International Relations.