Artists to discuss how materials impact their work

Curator Suzanne Morrissette talks to the artists in the Art Gallery of Burlington's exhibition in the Lee-Chin family gallery, How can I Know You? on how they have come to understand and know the materials they form and how it informs their practices.

The group will discuss the significance of the natural materials they procure, harvest, form, and/or collaborate with, and how that relationship impacts the meaning of the work.

Artists will be in a zoom meeting on Thursday, March 21, from 2 to 3 p.m.

How can I know you? continues at the gallery until April 28.

Using materials sourced from the earth, the artists in How Can I Know You? work to share site-specific knowledge about kinship and generational relations, industry and settlement, social and political histories tied to settler nationalism and institutions, and about Indigenous territories in dialogue with one another.

How can I know you? is a question that comes from a comment artist Panya Clark Espinal shared during a studio visit with Morrissette. It is a question Espinal asks of her materials, both as a way of coming to know them, as well as coming to know people, place, and history through the act of engaging with materials. It is a question that supposes the liveliness and agency of these materials and their capacity to share and convey knowledge.

Artists include: KC Adams, Anong Beam, Panya Clark Espinal, Melissa General, Dana Prieto and Krista Belle Stewart.

To register for the panel discussion click here.