Join exhibiting artists Tanya Lukin Linklater and Tiffany Shaw on Saturday, Feb. 25 from 4 to 5 p.m for an in-person discussion of their new exhibition, My mind is with the weather opening at the Gallery Feb. 25.
Tanya Lukin Linklater works across dance, performance, video, photography, installation, and writing. Her forthcoming and recent exhibitions include the 14th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; Aichi Triennale, Japan; Chicago Architecture Biennial; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; National Gallery of Canada; Oakville Galleries; New Museum Triennial, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Wexner Center for the Arts Artist Residency Award and The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Slow Scrape, her first book of poetry, was published by The Centre for Expanded Poetics and Anteism, Montréal (2020) with a second edition published by Talonbooks, Vancouver (2022). She studied at Stanford University, University of Alberta, and Queen’s University. Her Sugpiaq homelands are in southwestern Alaska, and she lives and works in Nbisiing Anishinaabeg aki in Ontario.
Tiffany Shaw is a Métis architect, artist and curator based in Alberta. She holds a BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University, a Masters in Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and is currently working at Reimagine Architects. Shaw has exhibited widely including the Architecture Venice Biennale, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Pier 21, Agnes Etherington Art Centre and the Chicago Architecture Biennial. She has been the recipient of multiple public art commissions such as Edmonton's Indigenous Art Park and Winnipeg’s Markham Bus Station. Among her public art projects Tiffany has produced several notable transitory art works and is a core member of Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective.
The Articulations Art Lecture Series offers presentations from contemporary practicing artists and arts professionals. Local and international artists, curators, critics, art historians, theorists, and filmmakers share their practice and engage with the audience in open, critical discussion. Articulations is free for Gallery Members. For non-members, regular Gallery admission applies.
IMAGE: Tanya Lukin Linklater with Tiffany Shaw, Indigenous geometries (installation view), 2019, cold rolled steel, laminated ash, paint, matt polyurethane, hardware. Image courtesy of Oakville Galleries. Photo: Laura Findlay.