UPCOMING
Beholder: Fanshawe College Fine Art 2nd Year Student Exhibition
March 12 - March 22, 2025 in the Main Gallery
Opening Reception on March 12, 5PM-7PM
In a world oversaturated with images, what does it mean to truly see? BEHOLDER asks us to consider the act of looking itself. Each painting in this exhibition is an assemblage of borrowed imagery, layered and reshaped into unexpected narratives. Through a process of projection, tracing, and intuitive composition, second-year fine art students from Fanshawe College have constructed large-scale works that dissolve the boundaries between past and present, fact and fiction, personal and collective memory.
Images sourced from books borrowed at the London Public Library, these elements—once static in their original contexts—are reanimated through the artists' hands.
Working within a limited palette, the artists employ masking, glazing, and texture-building techniques to navigate the interplay between control and chaos, intention and accident. The scale of the works amplifies the experience of looking—forcing the viewer to step closer, to decode the relationships between elements, to become, quite literally, the beholder.
But in BEHOLDER, perception is not passive. These paintings challenge us to question what is borrowed, what is invented, and what emerges in the space between. In reconfiguring visual fragments, the artists construct new worlds—worlds that demand to be seen.
Curated by Billy Bert Young and the second-year fine art students of Fanshawe College.
In Flux: Jessica Kliza
March 13 - April 12, 2025 in LAB 203
Opening Reception on March 13, 5PM-7PM
Jessica Kliza is a trained photographer and studio resident artist at TAP Centre for Creativity. In “In Flux” she sources photographs from newspapers and magazines and uses them to create representational drawings and paintings that explore the power and beauty of the human body in motion.
“Photography has the unique power to capture subjects mid-motion. These dramatic forms are made all the more enthralling by their brevity. Through repetition, I have expanded these fleeting images into something much more tangible, anchoring them in the here and now and calling into question the uniqueness of a moment. I selected these subjects because of the emotions each evokes in me, both as an artist and as an athlete. I have used colour and technique as a way to convey these responses."
—Jessica Kliza, TAP Studio 2D
Somethin’ Ain’t Right
March 26 - April 5, 2025 in the Main Gallery
Opening Reception on March 29, 7PM-9PM
Somethin’ Ain’t Right is the 53rd graduating class exhibition of the Fanshawe Fine Art Advanced Diploma program. In their third and final year, students produce an independent body of work; this exhibition features selected artworks from the final term of study for each of these twenty diverse students about to embark on their professional careers. The eclectic works span a broad range of media, processes, concepts, and subjects. Created against a backdrop of political turmoil, social unrest, environmental crises, economic disparity, and technological disruptions, each student strives to find their unique voice. The works in this exhibition reflect on these pressing issues, either highlighting the pervasive sense of unease or celebrating the beauty and respite that can still be found around us.
Professors: Marla Botterill, Philip Gurrey, Mike Pszczonak
Artists in the exhibition:
Erika Aarsteinsen, Nadia Ahmed, Dayanna Alarcon Recinos, Emma Barnes, Mackenzie Beirnes-Daniels, Nolan Burridge, Natasha Dufresne, Ryleigh Gaudreau, Jason Gillis, Heather Hachey, Nicole Hill, Cecil Klassen, Greg Krupa, Kate Miazga, Mncedisi Clinton Ncube, Natalie Pieterman, Sadie Pollock, Ethan Quenneville, Kassidy Toner-Tait, Camille Vanstone
Exhibition runs March 26 – April 5, 2025
Opening reception Saturday March 29, 7 – 9 pm, remarks at 7:30
Graduation Speaker: Adi Berardini, Director, Forest City Gallery