There’s still time to catch the third-annual Black Artists’ Networks in Dialogue (BAND) Gallery and Cultural Centre collaboration with Nicholas Metivier Gallery this summer.
BAND: Offsite is on view at Nicholas Metivier Gallery in Toronto through Aug. 10 and features the work of four early-career Black artists: Elicser Elliott, Hazelle Palmer, Jamie Ellis Pasquale, and Audra Townsend.
Based in Toronto, Elliott is one of Canada’s leading aerosol artists whose work is in public and private collections including the Royal Ontario Museum, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Also based in Toronto, Palmer has had her work on publication covers including Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature, edited by George Clarke Elliot, as well as her own book Tales from the Gardens and Beyond. Her most recent solo exhibition, Lived Experience, was at the 2Gallery in Picton, Ont., in 2022.
Pasquale began his career with landscape studies at the University of Greenwich, followed by research at The Harvard School of Graduate Design. His work looks at urban design’s effects on inhabitants and countries.
And Townsend is a Jamaican-Canadian abstract and mixed media artist who holds a master’s degree in Anthropological Research from the University of Manchester.
Joséphine Denis, the show’s curator, has had several exhibitions recently, including Kosisochukwu Nnebe: The Seeds We Carry at SAW Centre in Ottawa as well as Amartey Golding: The comfort of embers at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto.
BAND aims to support, document and showcase artistic and cultural contributions of Black artists and cultural workers, both in Canada and internationally. ■
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