The exhibition is a collaborative artist challenge organized by Charlottetown’s Peake Street Studios and involving participants from three Atlantic Provinces, in which unfinished or abandoned works are passed on to other artists for completion.

Organized by Peake Street Studios and supported by the P.E.I. Department of Communities, Cultural Affairs, and Labour.
Opening reception Thursday, September 9, 7:00 p.m.

image: Michelle Bush, detail of untitled work-in-progress to be passed on to P.E.I. artist Tyler Landry, silkscreen on paper.

The exhibition spans over twenty years of Salloum’s significant career, drawing out connections between the artist’s early explorations of photographic representations and experiments with sound and collage techniques, and later photographs, archival installations, and videos. 

Jayce Salloum is curated by Jen Budney in partnership with the Mendel Art Gallery, Kamloops Art Gallery and the Confederation Centre Art Gallery.

image: untitled: subjective affinities, 2004-2009, giclée photographs, dimensions variable. Collection of the artist.

Created over the last fifteen years, In the Shadow of Evangline is the result of an initiative undertaken by the Galerie d’art de l’Université de Moncton, for the creation of works by contemporary Acadian artists with Evangeline (the well-known Acadian folk heroine of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1847 narrative poem) as the central focus.The artists — including Lise Robichaud, Mario Doucette, Michel Robichaud, Jennifer Bélanger, Yvon Gallant, Nancy Morin, Herménégilde Chiasson, Francis Coutellier, and Roméo Savoie— express their sense of cultural identity by interpreting the story in their own visual style.

image: Herménégilde Chiasson, Ange, (detail), 1997, acrylic and plastic figurines on wood, 2.4 x 3.7 metres. Collection of la Galerie d’art de l’Université de Moncton

Recent portrait paintings inspired by Archer’s humanitarian work in the Darfur region of Sudan, Africa. Archer brings her perspective on the crisis of internally displaced citizens back to Canadian audiences.

image: Abakar, 2009, acrylic on canvas, 121.92 x 121.92 cm. Photo: Melanie Vallieres

  Emerging Artists Series supported by the RBC Foundation

Installation artist Hannah Claus creates sensorial landscapes to examine issues of memory, self, and community while exploring the intersection of her two cultural identities: Native and European-Canadian.

image:  Blue Nordic: reflection on river rock, detail, 2003, looped digital video, video projector, river rock, garden stones, amplifier and speakers, 152 cm diameter. Collection of the artist.

  Emerging Artists Series supported by the RBC Foundation