GALLERY HOURS
Tuesday to Saturday | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Free Admission
PICTURING OURSELVES
Opening Reception:
Saturday, September 14 2024 | 2:00-4:00 PM
Exhibition:
September 14 – December 21, 2024
Picturing Ourselves is an exhibition of five creators who use portraiture to share the significance of self-representation – whether themselves, their families, or communities.
Artists Cara Guri, Odera Igbokwe, Jake Kimble, Len Pierre, and Gloria Wong seek unique ways of approaching portraiture in an image-saturated world.
The artist’s works raise questions of agency over one’s image, how culture and community are represented, and reveal new perspectives of a historical art form.
About the Artists
Cara Guri
Cara Guri is a visual artist and musician of Catalan and Danish descent. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Arts + Design and completed a painting residency at Columbia University. She lives and works on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver BC).
Odera Igbokwe
Odera Igbokwe (They/Them) is an illustrator and painter located on the unceded and traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Igbokwe holds a BFA in illustration from Rhode Island School of Design and studied West African Dance and Movement and Theatre Arts at Brown University.
Jake Kimble
Jake Kimble is a multidisciplinary Chipewyan (Dëne Sųłıné) artist from Treaty 8 territory in the Northwest Territories. Kimble currently works on the stolen territory of Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and most recently attained a BFA in Photography from Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Len Pierre
Len Pierre is Coast Salish from Katzie First Nation. Pierre is a professor, consultant, TEDx Speaker, social activist, change agent, and traditional knowledge keeper. He holds a MEd from Simon Fraser University.
Gloria Wong
Gloria Wong is a visual artist based in “Vancouver”, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Wong holds a BFA in Photography from Emily Carr University of Arts + Design (2020).
