Presently

a juried exhibition

Emma Aurelia, Peter Barron, JoEllen Brydon, Tia Cavanagh, Christian Chapman, John Climenhage, Megan Cole, Tonya Corkey, Fiona Crangle, Andrew Cripps, Sadiqa de Meijer,  Jordan Dunlop, Teri Donovan, Holly Edwards, Henry Fernandes, Carol Forbes, Ale Groen, Julianne Gladstone, Jessica Hanzelkova, Emma Hesse, Ashley Johnson, Darcie Kennedy, Eryn Lidster, Jane LowBeer, Tara Lynn MacDougall, Katika Marczell, Beth McCubbin, Ian McLean, Andrew McPhail, Amber Helene Müller St Thomas, Yuripman Napoles Pereira, Alissa Ohashi, Paul Oldham, Kelly O’Neill, Tristan Peirce, Nadja Pelkey, Alison Postma, Andrew Rabyniuk, Matt Rogalsky, lo scott, Sheldon Storey, Wendy Trusler, Joel Matthew Warkentin, Jem Woolidge, Brandon Wulff, and David Yu

In September of this year, the AGP promoted a call for submissions inviting artists to submit new, recent, or past works that resonate with the contemporary moment.  A jury comprised of Sonya Jones (Curator of Collections at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery), Dyan Marie (practicing artist and a founder of C-Magazine, Cold City Gallery, DIG IN, Walk Here, Dupont Projects, BIG: Bloor Improvement Group, and the BIG On Bloor Festival), and Clayton Windatt (a Métis non–binary multi-artist currently Executive Director of the Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference/La Conférence des collectifs et des centres d’artistes autogérés) selected from works submitted by 179 artists living across Canada and beyond. The Art Gallery of Peterborough is grateful for the care, dedication, and experience they contributed to this process. Sonya, Dyan, and Clayton wish to extend their deepest appreciation to all those who applied and express the awe they felt learning about your work. It was a truly impressive response.  

This moment, complex and layered, merits a complicated response. Gathered here are works bringing forward themes of transition, anxiety, frustration, comfort, boredom, resistance, vulnerability, urgency, and resilience. Expressed through painting, needlework and textile, installation, film and video, photography, pottery, image transfer, drawing, text, collage, printmaking, assemblage performance, and sculpture, a conversation between artists who may never meet face-to-face hums and ticks in aggregate.

Sadiqa de Meijer and Matt Rogalsky, Chronology of the Emergency, 2020, video projection

The artists, Sadiqa de Meijer and Matt Rogalsky, have generously provided their video work, “Chronology of the Emergency,” for you to view online. This work is included in Presently, a juried exhibition.

Please Note:

This exhibition has been extended until May 2, 2021*.

*extension may be modified based on Provincial and Public Health guidelines.