Sarah Kernohan: Breccia

Breccia 1 (detail), 2026, pigment print on Hahnemühle museum etching paper, 17 x 11 inches. Image courtesy the artist.

Breccia
Sarah Kernohan

June 25 – July 18, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 27, 2 – 4pm
Red Head Gallery, Toronto

Red Head Gallery is pleased to present Breccia, a new exhibition by artist Sarah Kernohan.

Sarah Kernohan’s third exhibition at The Red Head Gallery continues her investigations around elements of landscape and their capacity to expand notions of time and scale.

Breccia builds on her explorations with flint, a rock that reveals its crystalline interior when split apart, creating portals to icy, watery, and sometimes galactic spaces. The exhibition earns its namesake from a type of sedimentary rock that is built of an accumulation of angular fragments of a variety of rocky materials, slowly building a new rock. The works in the exhibition similarly accumulate older photographs and newer additions to her collection, which are broken up and reassembled into new configurations. Close observations of the surfaces of these photographic works lend clues to their slow formation, revealing the vastness of these microscopic portals.

This body of work builds on Kernohan’s fascination with geological processes, the descriptive language around them and their capacity to inform the processes of artistic production, bringing us closer to what is happening to the planet.

About the Artist

Sarah Kernohan (she/her) makes work that focuses on landscapes, large-scale natural physical events, and memory. She completed her MFA at the University of Waterloo (2015) and her BFA in Drawing and Painting at OCAD University (2008). Recent exhibitions include Grey Areas (Durham Art Gallery, Durham, ON), Snow-blind (Gallery Stratford, Stratford, ON), Node (galerie plan.d, Düsseldorf, Germany), and Again and again and again (The Assembly, Hamilton, ON). She has completed residencies at Coordenadas Residencia (Buenos Aires), Pouch Cove Foundation (Pouch Cove, NFLD), and The Banff Centre (Banff, AB). She lives and works on the Haldimand Tract in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.

View past exhibitions by Sarah Kernohan

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