Node at Galerie Plan.d, Düsseldorf - October 21 to November 12, 2023

Node

October 21 - November 12, 2023

Vernissage: October 21, 20h

Featuring: Jim Bourke, Tonia Di Risio, Soheila Esfahani, James Fowler, Grant Heaps, Gillian Iles, Sarah Kernohan, Ian Mackay, David McClyment, Laura Millard, Sara Mozafari-Lorestani, Tazeen Qayyum, Lois Schklar, Pearl Van Geest, and Elaine Whittaker

Sarah Kernohan, Transatlantic Flint (Glace Bay from points unknown), Pigment print on paper, 2023.

Plan.d Produzentengalerie

Doretheenstr. 59

40235 Düsseldorf

Gallery Hours

Saturday 15 - 18 h

Sunday 15 - 18 h

Finissage: November 12, 15h

The term “node” has many interpretations, ranging from math to botany, computer engineering, social media, and medical applications. At its essence are the concepts of intersection, confluence, and divergence, all eminently applicable in this cultural exchange.

Red Head and Plan.d share many similarities. Both collectives seek to provide a forum for expression outside of established commercial gallery systems. Both are situated in major urban centres rooted in contemporary Western culture- hence, intersection and confluence.

However, cultural history and immediate experience, both personal and creative, are likely to differ widely, hence divergence.

The coming together of these comparables and contrasts makes the potential of Node so exciting.

All aspects of Node, both individual works and collaborative projects, will orbit around these ideas.

Snow-blind at The Red Head Gallery - February 1 - 25, 2023

Snow-Blind

February 1 – 25, 2023

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 4, 2023, 1-4 pm

The artist will be in the gallery on February 4, 11, 18 and 25 from 12-5 pm.

The Red Head Gallery

401 Richmond St. W., Suite 115, Toronto ON

Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 12 - 5 PM

Sarah Kernohan, Remnants 2, watercolour and pastel with acrylic ground on yupo, 24 x 18 inches, 2022.

The Red Head Gallery is excited to present Snow-Blind, Sarah Kernohan’s first exhibition as a member of the gallery.

Snow-blind is a series of drawings that respond to an experience of landscape that is ambiguous and difficult to visually apprehend on account of atmospheric and light conditions. They are informed by her experiences visiting alpine terrain in northern Scotland and Alberta, where snowpack has been dwindling over the years due to climate change. 

Her investigations involve hiking, contemplative watching, observational note-taking, sketching, and photography. These are pulled together as a point of reference. This ongoing process combines these experiences, study, and reflection, allowing her to draw connections between the patterns that draw her attention. The drawings come from a process of trying to understand and re-create the disorienting experiences she encountered in these environments. 

Snow, fog, or lack of available light contribute to the difficulty of deciphering space, making it difficult to understand the scale and proximity of these obscured mountains, only seeing how light reflects on snow high up in the hills. Through making these drawings, she attempts to pull these snowy patches closer for inspection through hazy scrims hanging on the surface of each drawing.

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The artist would like to thank the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund and Pat the Dog/City of Waterloo for their financial support in producing this work. 

Downtown Kitchener Art Walk

Sarah Kernohan, Dissipate 41 installed as a billboard as part of the DTK BIA Art Walk (2022 - 2024) in Halls Lane in Kitchener,r Ontario.

I am pleased to share that I am part of this year's DTK (Downtown Kitchener) Art Walk, co-presented by the Downtown Kitchener BIA and the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. The walk includes permanent public artworks, murals and billboards throughout the downtown core.

My piece is on Hall's Lane (between King and Charles Streets, at the back of the Rich Uncle Tavern), nearby wonderful neighbours, including Jessi McConnell, Melissa Doherty, Chris Austin, Logan MacDonald, Brubey Hu, Tee Kundu, and others. The project will be up until the spring of 2024.

You can find the piece at this location (map). Visit this link to get a map and copy of the digital publication, which includes information about all of the work in the Art Walk.

Special thanks to Shirley Madill, Darryn Doull, and Steve Lavigne at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery for including my work in this project, Stefanie Golling at the DTK Bia for their project management, and Westmount Signs for doing such a fantastic job with print production and project installation.

Please send me a photo if you visit the piece in person!

The Artist As Curator at 2gallery

Sarah Kernohan. Remnants. Graphite and acrylic ground on mylar, 30 x 22 inches, 2021.

August 7 - August 30, 2021

2gallery

256 Main St. W.

Picton, ON K0K 2T0

613-920-2000

2gallery.ca

Niloufar Salimi. Treed. Ink and graphite on Mulberry paper. 30 x 22. inches, 2021.

2gallery has invited nine 2gallery artists whose work they would choose to hang beside their own.

I reached out to Niloufar Salimi to collaborate. I am grateful that she generously agreed to participate and for the opportunity to exhibit alongside her.

We met and studied at OCAD, memorably, in an advanced drawing class with Ed Pien in 2007. We reconnected again after completing our graduate work. We each value gentle perception and delicate rendering as we build our work. While drawing, we are working sensitively, letting our materials and our subject matter guide the way we work. This exhibition was an opportunity for us to build work alongside one another again in another context.

The exhibition also features work by:

Edd Baptista & Andrew F. Ross

Hugo Cantin & Sebastien Cliche

Lindsay Chambers & Huy Lam

Beth James & Samuel Choisy

Erik Mohr & Jürgen Mohr

Moira Ness & Kale Vandenbroek

Paul Roorda & Melissa Doherty

Kate Taylor & Claire Desjardins