Union Gallery

💫CURATOR | Re Parsons

We are so excited that we were able to continue to work with former Curatorial Assistant, Re, over the summer as Curator of 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦, a celebration of local youth artists and their acts of storytelling to imagine new sustainable futures. Re’s care, creativity and generous spirit infuse this exhibition and program series, making it all happen! Join Re this Saturday for our program Conscious Creations, bringing mindfulness practices and hands-on art making to tough topics like climate anxiety.

ABOUT RE
Re Parsons is a dancer, visual artist, teacher, and scholar with a background in contemporary dance, literary theory, and dance pedagogy. Born and raised in the Rocky Mountains, Re’s journey led them to attain a dual BA in English and Dance from the University of Calgary and are currently pursuing their Masters in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University. Their artistic practice draws heavily on phenomenology and embodies research-creation through a decolonial lens. Although constantly shifting, Re’s most current research endeavours involve their passion for teaching and explore how facets of radical pedagogy can transform not only the dance realm but also infuse its revolutionary spirit into other artistic and cultural spheres.

✨️CKAF REVIEW✨️ Have your say in how the City continues to invest in the arts!

The City of Kingston is reviewing the City of Kingston Arts Fund to ensure it remains responsive to the needs of our local arts sector and continues to positively impact and effectively support our community. Share your input by filling out the survey HERE: https://ca.mar.medallia.com/?e=396327&d=l&h=27C794D9875D7A7&l=en

CKAF grants support artists and arts organizations and helps make Kingston an exciting hub for music, performance, visual arts and cultural experiences. Stay tuned for more opportunities to participate in the CKAF Review, facilitated by Saffy and a team of local Project Champions.

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Heads up, friends! We’ll be closed Tuesday, June 11 to attend UNBOUND, the 4th annual Cultural Studies Symposium in Mackintosh-Corry Hall B201, from 11am-4pm. MA students will be presenting their capstone projects.

“The theme reflects the refusal of disciplinarity inherent to cultural studies, and the prospect of reaching beyond dominant ideas and entrenched narratives in the cultural consciousness, challenging conventional notions of academic work. The symposium will feature work spanning a diverse array of genres and formats, including formal papers, blog posts, art pieces, toolkits, and policy proposals. Some are intended as resources and others are reflexive works.”

See you Wednesday 11am-8pm!

On now thru June 22 in the Project Room: 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦.𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦 by Elizabeth Hunt

“Being raised in Sarnia, I grew up immersed in the culture of Chemical Valley. Unpacking a childhood where alert sirens signal a Monday afternoon and the twinkling light from nearby refineries become a sublime part of the landscape means asking tough questions about my hometown and provoking conversations about corporate expropriation of land. Within a district surrounded by cameras and security, surveillance and careful observation using imaging techniques and networked technologies are transformed into tools of resistance.

This space plays host to the backend of an online artwork that pulls live atmospheric data and consolidates it into a visual spreadsheet reflecting corporate, sociopolitical, and environmental tensions within the petrochemical industry. Through access to the master file, visitors unpack obscured information and participate in digital interventions as they determine how land knowledge can be shared with the public.

On the wall, video projections carefully observing light and shadow and making use of infrared imaging invite questions of corporate control over the environment, and familiarity or strangeness to the land under current systems through interactions between light pollution and plant life, as well as visualizations of temperature.”

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Congratulations to our Home Sweet Home exhibition partners!

☁️ CONSCIOUS CREATIONS: for youth to meditate, make, and mull over mother earth
Saturday June 15, 2024, 2-4:30pm
Open to youth ages 10-18

Union Gallery is inviting local eco-conscious youth to meditate, make, and mull over Mother Earth together in our upcoming program – Conscious Creations! Come join young like-minded artists and activists to discuss your climate passions and anxieties openly, all while keeping your hands busy with creating some eco-art! This event is an open, casual get-together with opportunities to submit discussion points anonymously and respond as a group. The afternoon will begin with a meditation to open our worlds to one another, and close with a solution-oriented meditation to keep us all sailing forward with hope.

Please bring any specific art materials or meditation instruments you’d like to use.

Register today through the link in our bio 🔗

🚲 It’s Cycling Week in Katarokwi-Kingston, so today we’re highlighting this big, bold artwork by youth artist Jasper Lyon Wicke in our 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 exhibition.

Inspired by the story “Forget the World Out There” by Leila Lawrence-Montag, written as part of festival, this work gives new life to an old bicycle, animated by teen characters Namid and Tara as they ride together, smiling, through the abandoned streets of an uninhabited zone on a surprise date adventure.

🔗 Read this story via Youth Imagine the Future at the link in our bio and come visit us to see Jasper’s artwork in person!

𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 is open now in our Main Space! Cozy up on our strawberry picnic blanket with a book from curator Re Parsons’ collection.

Titles include: A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara, Green Green: A Community Gardening Story by Marie Lamba & Baldev Lamba, The Pinecone Walk by Barbara Springfield, 5-Minute Nature Stories by Gabby Dawnay, Fish is Fish by Leo Lionni, The Mushroom Fan Club by Elise Gravel, Why? Mother Earth and Father Sky by Sherry Sikstrom, Nuts to You! by Lois Ehlert, The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle, and Smick! by Doreen Cronin.

KAC is seeking applications for a full-time Program and Communications Coordinator! 🌟

Full-time (35 hours per week)
$45,000 salary
One-year contract, with possibility to extend to permanent
Application deadline: 16 June 2024

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Program and Communications Coordinator will deliver KAC programs and services that engage and support artists, arts organizations, and community members in Katarokwi/Kingston and the surrounding region. The Program and Communications Coordinator will plan, develop, and coordinate KAC events and programs; develop and oversee communications and outreach initiatives; collaborate with other staff on advocacy initiatives; and assist with office administration.

For more information about this position and how to apply, visit our website at https://www.artskingston.ca/get-involved/

🌱JOIN OUR SMALL TEAM! ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY.🌱

We are currently seeking a Program Director to join our creative and collaborative team.

Union Gallery needs a bold, self-directed, and welcoming leader with strong organizational skills. Working in collaboration with and reporting to the Gallery Director, the Program Director will provide program, communications, human resources, and volunteer management to the organization. The Program Director will actively contribute to the social responsibility of the gallery and possess a high level of accuracy, good judgment, and attention to detail.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2024 by 11:59PM EST

For more details and to read the full job posting, visit this link:https://uniongallery.queensu.ca/pdf/UG-Program-Director.pdf

☁️🌸𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 featuring 16 local youths opens in our Main Space on June 1

𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 is a celebration of local youth artists and their acts of storytelling to imagine new sustainable futures. Featuring 16 youth artists and authors guided by curator Re Parsons in collaboration with Youth Imagine the Future Festival (https://youthimaginethefuture.com/about-us), this exhibition is by local youth and for local youth. 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 asks all those who enter to consider the future of the locale we call home and the insights, anxieties, and passions of her future caretakers.

This exhibition will be on display until June 22, 2024 & we’ll see you at ! 🌱🚲

Image 1: A kiddo in an orange toque and green tshirt crafting a paper mâché masterpiece.

Image 2: Youth artists applying wall text in a paper mâché style to spell out 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦.

𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚.𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚 by Elizabeth Hunt opens in our Project Room on June 1

Based on Elizabeth’s upbringing in Chemical Valley in Sarnia, 𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚.𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚 is a site-specific installation which starts to question the artist’s hometown and open conversations about corporate expropriation of land. This solo exhibition features an ant farm, video projections of the surveilled/sublime landscape, silver halide photograms exposing the industrial light pollution, and live atmospheric data which is consolidated into a visual spreadsheet reflecting corporate, sociopolitical, and environmental tensions.

This exhibition will be on display until Saturday, June 22, 2024.

Image 1: Elizabeth Hunt, 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, online work that utilizes Microsoft Excel features such as power query and conditional formatting to pull real time weather, air quality, and lighting condition updates from Environment Canada, as well as information regarding observable cosmic events from other sources and consolidates this data into a visual dashboard.

Image 2: Elizabeth’s name painted in burnt and pulverized plant matter, a byproduct of the natural photo development process. Displayed below it is a found radioactive sign, sliding onto the floor.

Image 3: the painted exhibition title in the same material, running vertically up the Project Room doorway.

We’re extending the call for our reading group: Fertile Ground! Apply with interest by Monday, June 3, 2024

As we welcome in our annual curatorial theme of 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦/𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, we invite interested community members to join us in a unique peer-to-peer teaching and learning program, Fertile Ground.
Each participant will lend 1-2 books to a wall display at Union Gallery throughout the summer, meeting with the larger group to gather, get inspired, and co-create group activities prompted by the library we create together. Books of all kinds are welcome (novels, essay collections, comics, poetry, etc.) and will be available for visitors to read from June 6–July 24.

𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦
🐛 Apply with interest by: May 27, 2024
🌸 Meet + Greet: Wednesday, June 5 at 6pm
🦋 Reading Group Programs: Wednesdays, June 12, July 3, 24 at 6pm (if you can’t make a date — don’t worry! Apply anyway 💕)

Learn more & apply at the link in our bio!

PROCESS ART AND STORYTELLING 🌿
WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

June 1, 2024, 1-3pm
Open to children ages 3-9 with their families

Calling all young artists and earth-loving kiddos! You are invited to Union Gallery to create a group artwork to be exhibited in our upcoming exhibition, Home Sweet Home! Together alongside local teacher, artist, and activist Re Parsons, we’ll read through an inspiring eco-story written by a local youth author, then re-create the story as a giant piece of art to be suspended from the ceiling throughout the month of June!

This event is intended for children ages 3-9 and their families, although it is open to anyone.

Register through the link in our bio 🔗

Are you interested in a summer reading group - centring ideas around home and land. we invite interested community members to join us in a unique peer-to-peer teaching and learning program, Fertile Ground 🌸

Each participant will lend 1-2 books to a wall display at Union Gallery throughout the summer, meeting with the larger group to gather, get inspired, and co-create group activities prompted by the library we create together.

Books of all kinds are welcome (novels, essay collections, comics, poetry, etc.) and will be available for visitors to read from June 6–July 24.

Sign up through the link in our bio by May 27, 2024
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The Artists in the Garden Collective gathered today to meet the soil + started planting and planning 🪱

Artists in the Garden is a small collective featuring 11 local artists creating and cultivating in a small garden plot just outside Union Gallery, and neighbours to the Liberated Zone for Gaza 🍉

Behind the scenes to the upcoming Youth exhibition, Home Sweet Home! 🌿

Curator, Re Parsons is leading residencies for all of Home Sweet Home’s exhibiting artists! As part of the creation period, local youth artists who are making new work based on youth authors’ stories will be invited to take over the gallery space and work on their pieces alongside their peers.

Visit Home Sweet Home, in the Main Space from June 1 – June 22, 2024.

GALLERY CLOSED 🪜
We are currently deinstalling, and will be shifting gears ⚙️ into installing our upcoming summer exhibitions!!!

We’re still here in the office cooking up soooo many cool things:
🔥 Twofold Residency with + co-directed by and

🌿 Hosting Youth programming for exhibiting local youth artists + authors in our upcoming exhibition Home Sweet Home

💫 Planning for a celebratory Visual Arts Alumni Exhibition, taking place in early fall!

💫 Big news, friends…

Our marvellous Program Director, Abby Nowakowski, will be leaving her role this August so we’re taking a moment to share some mega Abby appreciation and give you all a heads-up that hiring will soon be underway for this position.

Where to begin! Union has been so lucky to have Abby on our team since September 2021. They helped us manage the curveball of COVID and emerging into our new not-for-profit identity, first as our Administrative & Communications Coordinator, then promoted to Program Director in May, 2022. She has brought incredible leadership, vision, and values to our organization and has shaped who we’ve become through incorporation in wonderful ways - far too many to count. Through and through, they have brought a spirit of play, generosity, and advocacy that has been tremendously impactful, making Union a more inclusive and empowering space. From leading the curatorial vision for our just completed year of 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺, to mentoring our Student-Led Outreach Committee, to building so many meaningful relationships with community partners, we are so so grateful for Abby. 🩷

Please take a moment to show Abby some love and send well wishes!

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WE ARE SEEKING YOUTH ARTISTS 👩🏼‍🎨
We’re gearing up for an upcoming exhibition this summer — Home Sweet Home 🌱

We’ll be exhibiting youth artists and authors in our Main Space this summer, with loads of parallel programming all led by curator Re Parsons.

We have gathered stories which imagine new sustainable futures, and we are currently seeking 3 more youth artists who might be interested to take part!

Interested youth artists would be creating artwork in response to the stories written by youth authors. If you or someone you know might be interested in participating or you just want more information: reach out to by emailing [email protected]

Can’t wait to share more about this project!!!

This week is your last chance to visit Adrien Crossman’s solo exhibition 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯

Crossman is interested in the intersection between fictionalized q***r spaces in media and the ghosts of many ‘real life’ q***r bars past. These works traverse time and space, existing at once ‘nowhere’ and ‘now here.’ In addition to q***ring the binaries between the digital and the physical, haven blurs the division between fiction and reality by memorializing imagined q***r spaces that can and do act as virtual stand ins for the ‘real’ gay bars we can no longer access – whether due to the pandemic or to the ongoing closures of clubs that have predominantly catered to q***r women and trans folks.

𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯 is on view until May 11, 2024

Photo documentation by Chris Miner

𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗟𝗬 𝗜𝗦 𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗟𝗬 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 — Apply by May 6, 2024, 11:59pm

Twofold Residency | Call for BIPOC Artists in Residence
Co-directed by Jill Glatt + Berline Reed

𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗟𝗬 𝗜𝗙:
🍓You’re a visual and interdisciplinary artist residing in the Katarokwi-Kingston region.

🍦You self-identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or Persons of Colour.

🍭You’re an emerging artist with an existing artistic practice, OR you’re a Newcomers (those who have lived in Canada for less than 5 years) and are early/mid-career aiming to integrate into the community in Katarokwi-Kingston

🍒You’re enthusiastic about enhancing your practice through peer support, mentorship, and collaborative engagement.

To learn more about this call + how to apply, visit the link in our bio!

*drum-roll please*
We are thrilled to announce the co-directors of the Twofold Residency: Jill Glatt and Berlin Reed

𝗝𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗚𝗹𝗮𝘁𝘁 is a Katarokwi//Kingston-based textile artist, printmaker, and French Immersion art teacher. She has developed and delivered programming for the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning, Kingston Arts Council, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Union Gallery, Kingston School of Art, and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Jill is also the Volunteer Coordinator and Board President for the Skeleton Park Arts Festival. Her artistic practice is based around and informed by ecology, community, and sustainability.

𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗲𝗱 is an independent curator/artist/chef based outside of Tiohtià:Ke//Montréal. As a 2023 Fellow of both Toronto-based Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism and NY-based Art for Artists, Berlin works to create spaces and opportunities for interactions that disregard conventional lines between curator and artist. Seeking to clear space for a more challenging, engaging, and immersive audience experience, Berlin’s current focus, “On Rupture”, is a residency-based curatorial research project consisting of experimental practice, collective projects, and exhibition development in the interest of interrogating the role of independent curators in dismantling oppressive norms within art institutions.

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This residency is designed and led by co-directors Jill Glatt and Berlin Reed, and hosted by Modern Fuel and Union Gallery . Twofold Residency presents an opportunity for local BIPOC artists to dive into their practice in community with others – sparking relationships, new collaborations, and challenging discussions. With the aim of investing time and valuable resources into supporting a robust and diverse artistic community in Katarokwi-Kingston, the Twofold Residency invites four local artists to work, explore, play, and create together at both galleries over the Summer of 2024.

Image: From left to right–Jill Glatt (photo courtesy of Jill) and Berlin Reed (photo credit Jeff Barnett-Winsby, 2023)

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 celebrates how pedagogy can breathe new life into gender neutral language. As part of local artist, Hill Werth’s ongoing work, they set forth to showcase pronouns beyond the binary.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 is on view until May 11, 2024

Photo documentation by Chris Miner

𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡: BIPOC Artists in Residence for Twofold Residency
Apply by Monday, May 6, 2024, 11:59pm

𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗬
and have come together to offer the Twofold Residency in July and August 2024. Led by Co-Directors, Jill Glatt (Artist/Instructor) and Berlin Reed (Curator/Artist) , the Twofold Residency presents an opportunity for local BIPOC artists to dive into their practice in community with others – sparking relationships, new collaborations, and challenging discussions. With the aim of investing time and valuable resources into supporting a robust and diverse artistic community in Katarokwi-Kingston, the Twofold Residency invites four local artists to work, explore, play, and create together at both galleries over the Summer of 2024.

𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗚𝗜𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬/𝗥𝗘𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦
This residency opportunity is designed for visual and interdisciplinary artists residing in the Katarokwi-Kingston region. To participate, artists must self-identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or Persons of Colour. They can be emerging artists with existing artistic practices, or Newcomers (those who have lived in Canada for less than 5 years) who are early or mid-career artists aiming to integrate into the community in Katarokwi-Kingston and deepen their understanding of its arts and culture. Ideal candidates are enthusiastic about enhancing their practice through peer support, mentorship, and collaborative engagement.

To learn more about this call + how to apply, visit the link in our bio!

Meenakashi + Caryn have crafted up this hand printed booklets for tonight’s roundtable discussion Heart on my Leaves: Western Traditions, Family Celebrations, and the Immigrant Diaspora Experience, happening tonight at 6pm

Come a little earlier and join artists as they walk us through their exhibition “Love ends. But what if it doesn’t?” tonight (April 17) at 5–6pm

Register through the links in our bio 🔗 These are two separate programs, so if you’d like to attend both please register for each!

join artists Meenakashi Ghadial and Caryn Wei Ya Xie tomorrow evening for their exhibition tour + roundtable discussion

“Love ends. But what if it doesn’t?” Exhibition Tour
April 17, 2024, 5–6pm

Heart on my Leaves: Western Traditions, Family Celebrations, and the Immigrant Diaspora Experience
April 17, 2024, 6pm

Register through the links in our bio 🔗 These are two separate programs, so if you’d like to attend both please register for each!

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For Caryn, the extensive digital documentation of her early childhood is a bittersweet reminder that memory is a luxury. She is part of the first generation in her family to have a life this carefully documented. A greater family history has been lost to time, and the messy, indelicate process of movement from one country to another. Her practice of reproducing these intimate captured moments of her childhood in paint allows her to grapple with the guilt and the grief of this loss, while preserving those memories to ensure her family’s legacy survives in the future.

Meenakashi has always been drawn to her parents’ extensive wedding album and the cultural and religious traditions that it captures. She attempts to insert herself into the experiences of those who have come before her, and reimagines past histories through a q***r and feminist lens. Through comparing these analog photographs with current everyday documentation, she contrasts past realities in India, with her present experiences in Canada.

📸 Photo credit: Chris Miner

𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗬 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗩𝗘𝗦: 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
with Caryn Wei Ya Xie + Meenakashi Ghadial
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April 17, 2024, 6pm
Free + in-person roundtable discussion
Register through the link in our bio 🔗

Both Meenakashi Ghadial and Caryn Wei Ya Xie’s paintings involve themes of family gatherings, informed by their practice sifting through vast archives of family photos.

In this roundtable discussion led by Meenakashi and Caryn, participants are invited to discuss memories of tradition and celebration shared across the diasporic experience of immigrant families. Here, we reflect on both “moments gone, and moments cherished.” Participants are asked to bring in objects, mementos, photos, or even foods that remind them of their experiences within this identity. Ex. photos, jewelry, heirlooms, clothing. Please be aware that the artists will be burning incense in this space.

“𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙛 𝙞𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣’𝙩?”
EXHIBITION TOUR
with Meenakashi Ghadial + Caryn Wei Ya Xie
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April 17, 2024, 5–6pm
Free + in-person program
Register through the link in our bio 🔗

The final lines of Ada Limón’s poem 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘥 read: “I see the tree above the grave and think, I’m wearing my heart on my leaves. My heart on my leaves. Love ends. But what if it doesn’t?”

This is the title of Meenakashi Ghadial and Caryn Wei Ya Xie’s exhibition, where they hold their hearts in their hands. They welcome us into personal moments that embody their humanness—experiences of love, loss and denial, and celebration.

This tour will be a space for them to explain their artistic practices within the exhibition, the experiences that informed it, and the technical processes, as well as the emotional journeys, of their paintings. Following, there will be an opportunity to ask the artist questions about their practices.

“𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵?” by Caryn Wei Ya Xie and Meenakashi Ghadial opens in our Main Space on March 2 with a reception at 1pm – join us!


In “𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵?”, Meenakashi Ghadial and Caryn Wei Ya Xie share their two distinct emerging artistic practices. Each drawing from extensive family photo archives as a rich source of inspiration for their oil paintings, they both invite us into personal moments that embody their humanness—experiences of loss and denial, love and celebration.

The exhibition will be on display until May 11, 2024

Image: Meenakashi Ghadial, 𝘋𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘺𝘤𝘩: 𝘌𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦, 2023, oil paint and graphite on aluminum. Photo: Courtesy of the Artist