Visiting Artist Lecture Series Winter 2021

DATE

ROOM

SPEAKER

 Tue, Jan 19th

2-3 pm

Zoom

Jenn E Norton is an artist using time-based media to create immersive, experiential installations, using stereoscopic, interactive video, animation, augmented reality, sound, and kinetic sculpture. Often using video as a starting point within her process, her imaginative compositions use a combination of pre-cinema and contemporary display technologies, while exploring the blurring boundaries of virtual and physical realms. Norton's recent animations and augmented reality apps draw upon her interest in the ways in which information is exchanged between humans, technology, and as seen in her most recent solo exhibition in Montreal (ELLEPHANT|Art), plants. Current areas of research within Norton's practice explores the use of metaphor in physics as both a conceptual genesis, communicative device, poetic practice, and demonstrative application of technological and natural phenomena. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Visual Arts at York University and is an adjunct lecturer and postproduction technician in Film + Media Studies at Queen's University.

Tue, Jan 26th

2-3 pm

Zoom

Stefana Fratila is a Romanian-born composer, artist and writer based in Toronto, Canada. She is also a DJ and co-founder of CRIP RAVE™ collective, an event platform showcasing and prioritizing Crip, Disabled, d/Deaf, Mad, and Sick body-minds within safer and more accessible rave spaces. Stefana has exhibited, performed and screened her work internationally, including at e-flux (New York) and the 2nd Kamias Triennial (Quezon City, Philippines) and AGYU (Toronto); she has also completed residencies at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Wave Farm Transmission Arts, and CMMAS (Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts).

Tue, Feb 2nd

2-3 pm

Zoom

Micah Lexier is a Winnipeg-born, Toronto-based artist whose activities include making, collecting and organizing. He has a deep interest in measurement, increment, found imagery and display structures. He has presented over 100 solo exhibitions, participated in more than 200 group exhibitions and has produced fifteen permanent public commissions. In 2015 Lexier was honoured with a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. Lexier's work is in numerous public and corporate collections including The British Museum (London, England), the Contemporary Art Gallery (Sydney, Australia), The Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), and The National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa). Micah Lexier is represented by Birch Contemporary, Toronto and his website is micahlexier.com

Tue, Feb 9th

2-3 pm

Zoom

Anthony Gebrehiwot is a passionate photographer and community leader whose creative lens re-visions photography as an ongoing dialogue of social change between subject and society. A self-taught photographer, Gebrehiwot founded XvXy-photo in 2014 focusing on studio portraiture. To date, he has worked with several notable brands such as Nike, Royal Bank of Canada, Vice Canada, Absolute, Hudson Bay, The City of Toronto and Linkedin to name a few. His work has been featured in over thirty local and international publications such as the Star, the Globe and Mail, PAPER Magazine, Elle UK and Yahoo Lifestyle.

Mon, Feb 22nd 2-3 pm

Zoom

Leif Low-Beer lives and works in Brooklyn, Berlin, and Toronto. His installations, sculptures, and drawings have been shown at galleries in the United States and Canada, and Europe, including solo shows at Wild Project and Beginnings gallery in New York, Okay Mountain in Austin, and Buffalo Arts Center in Buffalo. He has presented large-scale installations at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens and most recently had a Solo Show at Space 1026 in Philadelphia.

Tue, Mar 9th 2-3 pm

Zoom

Sandra Brewster is a Canadian visual artist based in Toronto. Her work explores identity, representation and memory, centring Black presence. The daughter of Guyanese-born parents, she is especially attuned to the experiences of people of Caribbean heritage and their ongoing relationships with back home. Brewster's work has been featured in a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2019-2020), she is the 2018 recipient of the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist Prize and her exhibition It's all a blur… received the Gattuso Prize for outstanding featured exhibition of CONTACT Photography Festival 2017. Currently on view through September 6, 2021: Sandra Brewster: Blur, special installation project at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. Brewster holds a Masters of Visual Studies from University of Toronto. She is represented by Georgia Scherman Projects.