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Grace Boileau

Smoke and Mirrors
2021
Oil on canvas
24″ x 32″

In a world consumed by a person’s outer appearance, Grace Boileau is an artist attempting to tackle the concept of an internalized male gaze. Trying to find her own sense of beauty and ideality through the movement of paint across the canvas that looks to over shadow the dominating internalization. To gaze is to decide, to interpret what one is seeing and what it means, but what happens when that understanding is already predetermined? What happens to one’s self-identityand self-love? Gaze into the looking glass, what do you see?

@traseodecarg

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Georgia Howard

The Candles
Screenprint
11″ x 16.8″

This work is one of three prints from my senior thesis work titled, What If We Were No More Than A Commodity. The project explores the idea of a parallel universe where the roles of humans and light sources switch places. Through random doodles, I came up with the idea of a girl with a lantern for a head. I began to wonder what other people would live in this same universe and created more characters with light sources as heads. The viewer gets a glimpse into their ordinary lives as they read, go on a date, or just laze around the home. The human objects are there only as a means to light the surroundings and set the mood. Reversing the roles of humans and lights creates a sense of curiosity and absurdity. I ask the viewer to look into the world I have created and enjoy the comedic imagery. What started as a doodle has turned into a fleshed out concept that allows the viewer to imagine themselves in an alternate reality with a transmuted existence.

@georgiahowardarts

Winthrop University

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Erin Betfort

Untitled
Screenprint
20″ x 15″

This work was created using imagery that was meant to capture the idea of being absorbed back into nature. The piece features a figure being given back to a dilapidated building; both the building and the figure are dissolving into the foliage. This work creates juxtaposition in the feeling of safety and suffocation.

@erinbetfort

Winthrop University

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Emma Ongman

Object No. 1
2021
3D print, epoxy resin, and spray paint
25″ x 32″ x 14″

Emma Ongman is an interdisciplinary artist interested in questioning structures of reality. She is currently inspired by the evolution of technology and its influence on human behaviour.

emmaongman.com | @emmaongman

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Emily Escoffery

Another Green One
2021
Oil and acrylic on canvas
48″ x 36″

Emily Escoffery is a painter who aims to explore the boundaries between the digital and the painterly by mainly focusing on the movement and colour of shapes. She is interested in biomorphic forms that allow an investigation of the edges of intersecting shapes, which then enter a liminal space of in-betweenness due to blurring techniques. Emily strives for the audience to be encompassed by the colours and forms without seeking any kind of representation or objectivity because even if there are symbolic images, their connections are not integral to the meaning/explanation of the work.

@emilyescoffery

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Anne Munroe

Neural Net 2
2021
Tie wire and pom poms
6 x 9 x 4 ft

Anne Munroe is a multi-media artist working in sculpture, paint, print and photography. As a former medical social worker, Anne reflects on the human predicament taking on subjects such as memory, technology, and the body. Projects may begin with an idea, a book, collage, or drawings and lead to works that compliment or disrupt, stabilize or create uncertainty.

@munroe3170

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Andrea McCallum

Untitled
2021
Concrete, paper pulp, and watercolour
26.5″ x 20.5″ x 1cm

Andrea McCallum is an artist inhabiting the space between sculpture and printmaking. Through concrete and paper pulp, concepts of weight and density are explored through visual cues and materials. Preserving nature without removing it from its habitat has been an intriguing dilemma leading to the addition of resin to the work. Andrea also employs notions of cosmology and intuition when composing the organic forms that are characteristic of her work.

@andrea_art_uog | @concreteandcrystals

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Alexis Freitag

Sunday Blue
2021
Oil on canvas
18″ x 24″

Alexis Freitag is an artist interested in the tension between biomorphic shapes constrained in the geometric canvas. She explores concepts initially untethered to any physical world references paired with the inevitable reach for a narrative. Using color-blindness to her advantage, the mixing process is integral in provoking an emotional response to the visual relationships explored with color and shape.

@alexislaurenart

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Addison Lemmon

Addi Poppins
2021
Oil on canvas
18” x 24”

Addison Lemmon is a painter working in watercolour, collage, and oil to transmit childhood memory through systematic abstraction. Currently Addi is focused on her experience of outdoor play and growing up in southern Ontario, as well as the dissociative effects of moving to a big city for the first time. Using serial systems like grids and colour blocking, Addi creates playful collisions of childhood memory and environment that evoke a positive sense of nostalgia in the viewer.

@addi.margaret

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Gateway

2021

Gateway is a group exhibition with artists from the University of Guelph Specialized Studio program and the Winthrop University Fine Arts department.