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Each September, the Visual Art & Art History Department at York University kicks off the exhibition season with a show of incoming and returning students in our Graduate Program.

Our programming this year (roman numeral MMXXI) is no different than last year: our physical galleries remain shuttered to visitors. But hope springs eternal! In the meantime, we are very pleased to present this exhibition of work by our wonderful students working in very diverse ways.

Please visit this link if you are interested in learning more about our Graduate Program

 

 

 


ANDREW HARDING

 


ANNIE DUNNING

Annie Dunning is a 3rd year PhD student working with sound-sculpture. Her work considers areas of cultural overlap between species and how co-habitation and mutual influence shapes spaces.

 

 


CATHERINE HOIS

 


CLAIRE GREENSHAW

Working from a feminist perspective and using humour as a tool, I draw images that range from private marginalia to iconic cultural artifacts in order to examine the status of drawing in the contemporary context. I’m interested in labour and time, gender and the body, and how these intersect with the politics of image production in the digital age.

clairegreenshaw.com

 


CORYNN KOKOLAKIS

Corynn Kokolakis is a figurative painter whose practice explores the disparate roles of mother and artist. This work is a personal reflection on the tension of solitude and indefinite holding within a space of beauty, safety and comfort.

www.corynn.com || @studiocorynn

 

 


D’ANDREA BOWIE

Throughout the pandemic, my studio practice has focused on deepening a knowledge of the chemistry encompassing ceramics and glaze, furthering an aim to evolve narratives surrounding raw material extraction and how it applies to sculpture. Expanding on the ‘Affordance’ series, material and process will be explored when considering the visual language of sculpture that exists in the public realm; or yet to be imagined, seeking out what a partnership with landscape and material might look like.

dandreabowie.com || @d_andreabowie

 

 


ELISA VITA

 


ERICA STOCKING

@motherginger_the_store

 

 


FEHN FOSS

Fehn Foss (she/her) is a lens-based artist and writer working in Tkaronto/Toronto.

fehnfoss.com || @fehnfoss

 

 


JASMINE CANAVIRI

jasminecanaviri.weebly.com

 

 


JESSIE KITCHEN

Jessie Kitchen is a multidisciplinary artist and poet currently working in Toronto, Ontario.

 

 

 

 


JO YETTER

Over time the artist’s baby blankets have been shedding fragments that are then collected and saved for repurposing. The work contemplates the materials changing function, as it is no longer a part of the original form.

joyetter.format.com || @jo.yetter

 

 


KASIA SOSNOWSKI

Kasia Sosnowski (she/her) is a ceramic artist from Southern Alberta – her work emphasizes the importance of play and subconscious narratives

www.kasiasosnowski.com || @bad.bucket || Vimeo

 

 


LISA CRISTINZO

My work explores how the non-human and inanimate world shapes our social, political, cultural, and ecological landscape, in co-authorship with the human and animate world. I am using the theme of fire and its process as a metaphor, an illustration of environmental impact as a response to materialism – where the narrative of danger and comfort is contingent on the materiality of the object, its relationship to space, and the process of fire it will eventually endure.

lisacristinzo.com || @lisacristinzopainting

 

 


MAEGAN HARBRIDGE

This series of abstract paintings employs a reverse painting methodology, using latex masking fluid, to arrive at compositions that can be considered as a type of eco-aware, existential landscape. Just as land is formed and reformed with each enacting relationship, the material and formal processes that these paintings are contingent upon mirror the making and unmaking state of all things.

@maeharbridge

 

 

 


MICHELLE PERAZA

michelleperaza.com || @mperaza_

 

 


PHIL DELISLE

 

 


RACHAEL DODGSON

Informed by spontaneous gestures, Rachael Dodgson’s abstract imagery and mark-marking is an evolving autobiographical language that translates her subconscious into visual form.

rachaeldodgson.com || @rachaeldodgson_art

 

 


SHAWN GREY

 

Shawn Grey, Blind Stitching, Video, 04:48.00, 2021

Shawn Grey, Bellwoods Eviction, Video, 00:00.58, 2021

Shawn Grey, Occupied Acknowledgements , Video, 00:58.00, 2019