Traditions and Transitions, curated by Briar Craig, challenged contemporary attitudes towards printmaking. Selected works addressed debates in printmaking affected by technological advances and the concurrent desire to honour traditional practices. Artists from across the country represented a breadth of works using traditional, conceptual and mass-production techniques. This exhibition demonstrated how prints made in dramatically different ways can be relevant and exist side by side.
Mark Bovey is an artist and Associate Professor in the Printmaking Area at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax Nova Scotia Canada (2004-present). He received his MVA in Printmaking from the University of Alberta in 1992 and his BFA from Queen's University in Kingston Ontario in 1989.
For more information on Bovey’s work, visit his website.
Jesjit Gill is a visual artist and printmaker based in Toronto, ON. He graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design with a BFA in 2010. In his art practice he uses print as a medium to wed photographic collage and hand drawn elements that are arranged into dream-like scenes inspired by science fiction and surrealist art. He is also a co-organizer of Zine Dream, a small press fair that began in 2007 and features over 90 exhibitors including small presses, self publishers, printmakers and illustrators.
For more information on Gill’s work, visit his website.
Dana Tosic holds a BFA from Queen’s University and an MFA from the University of Calgary, both with a specialization in printmaking. In 2010 she was selected for the Tim Mara Graduate Student Exchange in the Printmaking Department at the Royal College of Art, London, U.K. Her research interests include explorations into embodied perception and memory as well as the application of digital technology to traditional practices in printmaking. She recently presented her research and artwork at the Printopolis International Symposium in Printmaking in Toronto in 2010
For more information on Tosic’s work, visit her website.
Robert Truszkowski holds a BFA from Queens’s University and a MFA from Concordia University. He has exhibited extensively across Canada and internationally. Notable achievements include The 2019 Biennale International de l’estampe contemporain (group exhibition in Trois-Riviéres, Canada),"The Conversationalist" at the Dunlop Art Gallery (solo exhibition in Regina Saskatchewan), "Connections - Printmaking from Saskatchewan and South Korea" (group exhibition at the Saskatchewan Craft Council), "Kyoto Hanga 2016" (group exhibition Kyoto and Tokushima Japan). Truszkowski is currently Associate Professor of Print Media and Head of the Department of Visual Arts, at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan Canada.
For more information on Truszkowski’s work visit his website.
Laura Widmer is a visual artist based in Kelowna, British Columbia. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in printmaking from the University of British Columbia's Okanagan Campus. Her work explores themes of intimacy, time and moments of personal transition. She uses traditional printmaking and papermaking methods in her work and enjoys the contrast they provide to the digital and increasingly virtual spaces we inhabit in the contemporary world.
For more information on Widmer’s work, visit her website.