Arsenal Contemporary Art, New York - by appointment
Arsenal Contemporary Art New York presents This Sacred Vessel (pt. 2). After first exploring landscape painting and how it is informed by ecological anxiety in This Sacred Vessel (pt. 1), pt. 2 investigates figurative painting. A group show of nine artists who each depict the figure in playful and ambiguous interpretations of popular culture and explores voyeurism.
Shelley Adler (b. 1961 in Edmonton, AB lives and works in Toronto, ON). Her work has been exhibited at Metivier Gallery (Toronto), Jochen Hempel (Berlin), at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto).
Kim Dorland (b. 1974 in Wainwright, AB, lives and works in Toronto, ON). Notable exhibitions include Terror Management at Beers (London), Get Out at Antoine Ertaskiran (Montreal) and Kim Dorland: Everyday Monsters at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.
Bambou Gili (b. 1996 in New York, lives and works in New York). Her work has been shown at NYU Curatorial (New York) and Wallplay (New York).
Eliza Griffiths (b. 1965 in London, England, lives and works in Montreal, QC). Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at Mercer Union (Toronto), The Painting Center (New York), Hallways Contemporary Arts Centre (Buffalo), ARCO Madrid, the Saidye Bronfman Centre (Montreal) and Platform Gallery (London).
Sarah Letovsky (b. 1987 in Toronto, ON, lives and works in Toronto) She was exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Patel Gallery (Toronto) and Casey House (Toronto).
Walter Scott (b. 1985 in Toronto, ON lives and works in Toronto). He has exhibited his work in solo exhibitions at Cooper Cole (Toronto), I.S.C.P (Brooklyn), Remai Modern (Saskatoon) and Plug In ICA (Winnipeg).
Marion Wagschal (b. 1943 in Port-au-Spain, Trinidad, lives and works in Montreal, QC). Major exhibitions include Marion Wagschal at the Musée d’art de Joliette, L’éclatement des frontières, 1965-2000 at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and Art and Feminism at the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2014-2015, her work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition presented at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Nadia Waheed (b. 1992 in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia, lives and works in Austin, TX). Notable exhibitions include For the Few and the Many at Beers (London) and See Me Where I Am at Museum of Human Achievement (Austin), Hear me Out at ARC Victoria (Melbourne).
Janet Werner (b. 1959 in Winnipeg, MB, lives and works in Montreal). This year, the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art opened a retrospective exhibition of her work. Her work has been showed at MASS MoCA (North Adams), the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto) and Plug In ICA (Winnipeg).
Installation view and artist’s bios from Arsenal Contemporary Art New York. Photo credit: Greg Carideo