Dunlop Art Gallery Summer 2022

Dunlop Art Gallery is open to the public and continues to offer programming online and in-person. For hours of operation, safety protocols, and details about programming, visit our website.

Wit López, Tryna Keep A Straight Face, digital portrait projected onto quilt, 2021. Photo courtesy of the artist.

each of us, beloved

Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library
July 2 – September 25, 2022, Sherwood Village Branch

Guest Curated by Sarah-Tai Black

m. patchwork monoceros and Wit López

What might it look like to position and affirm oneself as adored? To defy the ableist and white supremacist mapping of desirability onto our bodies and instead revere oneself as loved, as cared for, as worthy of comfort? To insist on more than survival? In this exhibition, tactile and embodied artistic practices materially reinscribe care into new world-making forms that disrupt the isolation experienced by disabled Black queer and gender diverse individuals. These artworks create a space for playfulness and grief, urgency and calm, reorienting those who live likewise towards the liberatory capacities of our shared otherworldliness. each of us, beloved offers a communal space of self-imagining that cherishes the rites and rituals of Black crip life.

Sarah-Tai Black is a curator and critic who lives in Treaty 3 Territory/Toronto, ON. Their work centers on the liberatory and affective capacities of artmaking with an emphasis on embodied Black, queer, trans, and crip futures.

amber willliams-king, 3 o’clock (no. 16), photography print, 2018. Photo courtesy of the artist.

for those of us who live at the shoreline

Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library
July 9 – September 7, 2022, Central Library

Opening Reception – with Guest Curator Sarah-Tai Black
July 8, 7:00 PM CST
In-person, Dunlop Art Gallery (Central Library)

Eniola Dawodu, Kourtney Jackson, Anique Jordan, Oluseye, amber williams-king, Qualeasha Wood, Chason Yeboah, shimby zegeye-gebrehiwot

With for those of us who live at the shoreline we are reminded of methods of self-soothing and affirmation that we return to as both salve and testimony. Here, kinship, self-imagining, and ancestral knowledge take precedent, and movements of both embrace and refusal are offered as an act of care. Relations here are multi-faceted: they are tactile, immaterial, and otherworldly; they reside on the same embodied plane as liberation, as rest, as joy; they privilege the immediacy of feeling and spirit. The works in this exhibition act as witness to both us and their makers, communally grounding us within the freedom of each of our expansiveness and with love for our specificities.

Sarah-Tai Black is a curator and critic who lives in Treaty 3 Territory/Toronto, ON. Their work centers on the liberatory and affective capacities of artmaking with an emphasis on embodied Black, queer, trans, and crip futures.

Online Artists’ Talk – each of us beloved, with m. patchwork monoceros, Wit López, and Guest Curator Sarah-Tai Black
July 18, 6:00 PM CST / 8:00 PM EDT
Online

About Dunlop Art Gallery at Regina Public Library

Gallery Hours (CST)
Mon to Thurs, 9:30 am – 9 pm
Fri, 9:30 am – 6 pm
Sat, 9:30 am – 5 pm
Sun, 12 – 5 pm

Central Library location
2311 – 12th Avenue
Regina SK S4P 3Z5

Sherwood Village location
6121 Rochdale Boulevard
Regina SK S4X 2R1

Admission is FREE to all exhibitions.
Galleries are wheelchair accessible.

306-777-6040
dunlop@reginalibrary.ca
reginalibrary.ca/dunlopartgallery

We acknowledge the support of the SK Arts, and funding partners SaskCulture and Saskatchewan Lotteries, whose contributions help the arts thrive in this province.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

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