Inside .Outside .Of. Exhibition Art Gallery of Mississauga

Inside . Outside . Of . Exhibition Art Gallery of Mississauga

January 25 – April 13, 2025
The Art Gallery of Mississauga invites you to the opening reception of Inside. Outside. Of. Join us for an afternoon to celebrate the exhibition opening alongside the artists and curators.

All artists will be in attendance, and the event will include a series of short artist talks, beginning at 2:30. Please join us in celebrating this exhibition!

Refreshments will be provided. Registration is recommended but not required.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Through intuitive, tenuously articulated works, the four artists brought together in this exhibition reflect upon how we situate ourselves in relation to various planes of interconnection and existence. Works by Ella Gonzales, David Merritt, Émilie Régnier, and Shanie Tomassini share a preoccupation with exploring the entangled and complex realm of perception between people and their surroundings. Their artistic practices reflect distinctive cultural backgrounds and experiences, yet they are all deeply invested in developing materially-sensitive works that are finely attuned to introspective realms.
A structural emphasis comes through in Ella Gonzales’s use of gossamer, plant-based textiles as surfaces for depicting layers of rooms and corridors in ways that reflect how our bodies move through and remember the spaces we inhabit. Émilie Régnier’s practice is deeply personal: she conveys the unfixed sense of her cultural identity through self-portraits made with traditional handmade cotton textiles, which embrace frayed edges and silhouetted forms. Shanie Tomassini’s sculptures are built of elemental materials that explore aspects of ritualistic and regenerative alchemy. And David Merritt works from tree-based materials such as paper and twigs to articulate delicate configurations that are conceptually retethered to their natural origins. These artists’ evocative sense of materiality draws attention to unfixed, peripheral, and fragile experiences. They offer the possibility of pause and reflection through distilled, slowed-down moments of observation that encourage more conscious states of awareness.
—Shannon Anderson and Jay Wilson, Curators

Recurring Event: Yes

Start: 01/25/2025 / End: 04/13/2025
Website: Inside.Outside.Of Exhibition Art Gallery of Mississauga

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