OCAD University Gallery Crawl 2023

4th Annual OCAD U Gallery Crawl

Saturday October 21, 2023
Tours start at 12:00pm, 12:30pm and 1:00pm
Meet in the lobby of 100 McCaul Street, Toronto

Join the 4th Annual OCAD U Gallery Crawl! Get familiar with OCAD U’s multiple galleries. Here artists and curators tell the stories behind their creative process. Hundreds of artworks on display, including painting, sculpture, new-media, and photography. Over 50 artists, both student and professional, are featured in venues across campus. Free guided tours of 5 exhibitions.

The Great Hall – Eclectic Ukrainian Futures
Organized by the OCAD U Ukrainian Student and Alumnus Collective (USAC), this juried exhibition and auction showcases current students, alumni, and faculty. Presented in partnership with the Canada-Ukraine Foundation, this event aims to showcase and celebrate the resilience and eclecticism of Ukrainian art and design.

Deirdre McIntosh, Gently Bruised (Self Portrait), 2023, acrylic on cotton blend, 30″ x 40″

Ignite Gallery – Powerhouse
Powerhouse invites viewers on a journey through contemporary exploration, encouraging reflection on the ever-evolving self and the complexity of contemporary existence. Not simply a dynamic showcase, this exhibition is a powerful testament to art’s ability to both mirror and shape our understanding of the modern world.

Ada Slaight Student Gallery – Defying the Margins
Defying the Margins is an upper-level undergraduate student exhibition. Showcasing visual dialogue and reflections from their two- week artist residency at Alice Yard in Port-Of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, working with world-renowned Trinidadian artist, writer, and curator Christopher Cozier.

Camille Belair, process shot of hand-bound book with reinforced burlap, jute and cotton cover, limo-cut printed kraft and manila paper, with music notation paper interior

Graduate Gallery – telling and retelling: acts of iteration
The idea of iteration is indicative of process becoming practice. It is documenting, collecting, compiling. Watching the seed root and grow. Doing the thing, again, doing it differently, learning from it and yourself. Iteration is confrontation, contemplation, and embodiment. This exhibition encourages slow, playful, and deep looking within and outside of the grid to see the patterns of iteration, and the methods employed by each artist towards visual synergy.

Fredy Forero, Benidorm y Sitges, 2017, from the series Seguridad Nacional, 250 cm x 376.57 cm, Installation (detail)

Onsite Gallery – On Americanity and Other Experiences of Belonging
Centered around the notion of “Americanity” and what it stands for today. This concept has been historically and generally used to name a shared cultural belonging to the American continent. Yet, does Americanity imply the same whether a person lives in Bacatá (Bogotá), Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal), or Tsi Tkarón:to (Toronto), and whether they were born in Abya-Yala (America) or on another continent?

Up Front: Tarralik Duffy
In partnership with the Inuit Art Foundation (IAF), Onsite Gallery presents Up Front, a new series of commissioned digital murals by Inuit artists. Fresh Pop is part of Tarralik Duffy’s ongoing examination, which finds her spotlighting the prominence of everyday objects that have become customary to contemporary Inuit culture and iconic in the North.

For more information, visit:
www.ocadu.ca/event/ocad-u-gallery-crawl-2023

Contact: galleries@ocadu.ca

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