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Nicolas Baier, Player One, 2023, LED Light Box
Each of the eight Canadian galleries were selected by a jury of top art professionals from both Canada and the US; they include Gaëtane Verna (Executive Director of Wexner Center for the Arts and Curator of the Canadian Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale), Mary-Dailey Desmarais (Chief Curator, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts), Ebony L. Haynes (David Zwirner), Jessica Warren (White Cube), Jean-François Bélisle (CEO & Director of the National Gallery of Canada), as well as local art world professionals including Anthony Cran (Wilding Cran Gallery), Davida Nemeroff (Night Gallery), and Elisabeth Forney (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions).
The selected galleries and accompanying artists include: Blouin Division with Nicolas Baier, Marie-Claire Blais, Simon Hughes, and Scott McFarland; Bradley Ertaskiran with Preston Pavlis, and Joseph Tisiga; Feheley Fine Arts with George Arluk, Elizabeth Angrnaqquaq Qiayuq, and Shuvinai Ashoona, Killiktee Killiktee, and Idris Moss-Davies; Franz Kaka with Jennifer Carvalho, and Karice Mitchell; Olga Korper Gallery with Melanie Authier, Sandra Brewster, and Katherine Takpannie; Pangée with Grace Kalyta, and Darby Milbrath; Patel Brown with Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka, and Celia Perrin Sidarous; and Stephen Bulger Gallery with Nina Levitt, Sanaz Mazinani, and Deanna Pizzitelli. Northern Exposure is organized by LA-based curators Margot Ross and Michael Slenske.
The works in Northern Exposure include light box landscapes from Toronto-based photographer Scott McFarland (Blouin Division); two-sided artworks, created by California-born, Halifax-based artist Preston Pavlis (Bradley Ertaskiran) that comprise of tender figurative paintings on one side and intricate hand-crafted quilts on the other; hand-embroidered felt tapestries depicting native landscapes and the animals that inhabit them, by the late Inuit artist Elizabeth Angrnaqquaq Qiayuq (Feheley Fine Arts); digitally manipulated found images engaging with the representation of the Black female body in erotic and popular culture magazines from Karice Mitchell (Franz Kaka); lyrical abstractions mapping the terrain of natural environments and imaginary spaces by Montreal-based painter Melanie Authier (Olga Korper Gallery); sculptural works on paper from the Toronto-based Japanese-Canadian artist Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka (Patel Brown); paintings with denim, rhinestones, and rivets by Montreal-based Grace Kalyta (Pangée) explore adornment and spectacle; and a poetic photographic travelog of a multi-year sojourn in Slovakia, Europe, Canada, and parts of Latin America by Toronto-born artist Deanna Pizzitelli (Stephen Bulger Gallery).
About the Canadian Creative Accelerator
Launched by the Consulate General of Canada in Los Angeles in September 2020, the Canadian Creative Accelerator (CCA) was established to promote Canada’s creative industries in Southern California. Since its inception the CCA has seen success as a platform for Canada’s TV, Film & Music companies to show, sell, and distribute their work while helping to expand their business in the United States. As part of L.A. Art Week, the CCA will open Northern Exposure, its inaugural Visual Arts program focused on contemporary Canadian artists and galleries.
“After many years of success with the CCA programming in television, film, and music, we felt it was a natural next step to extend the program to visual arts,” says Zaib Shaikh, Consul General of Canada in Los Angeles. “Los Angeles is considered, by many around the world, as the epicenter of the global art market and we could not imagine a better time to have this version of the CCA in LA.”
Jean-François Bélisle, CEO & Director of the National Gallery of Canada, will be joining Consul General Shaikh in welcoming the Canadian galleries in Los Angeles. “Canadian contemporary art galleries, together with Canadian artists, are doing incredible work and gaining recognition in the global art scene. I am pleased that I can help bring more attention to these luminaries by way of our collaboration with the Consulate General of Canada in LA. Being able to highlight these works during the LA Art Week, the most jam-packed stretch of the year in the city's arts calendar, is genuinely valuable.”
Marie-Claire Blais
Les bruits se sont tus 4, 2023
Pigmented calcium carbonate, acrylic medium and plaster on burlap
63 x 50 in
160.02 x 127 cm
Courtesy of Blouin Division
Melanie Authier
New Alchemy, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 in
121.92 x 91.44 cm
Courtesy of Olga Korper Gallery
Elizabeth Angrnaqquaq Qiayuq
LIFE ON THE LAND
Baker Lake felt, embroidery floss, duffle
103 1/2 x 118 1/2 in
Courtesy of Feheley Fine Arts
Simon Hughes
Pink Moon, 2023
Acrylic and collage on canvas
36 x 36 in.
91.44 x 91.44 cm
Courtesy of Blouin Division
Scott McFarland
Untitled #13 (Sky Leaks), 2017
Transmounted chromogenic print displayed in LED
50 x 40 in
127 x 101.6 cm
Edition of 4
Courtesy of Blouin Division
Scott McFarland
Untitled #3 (Sky Leaks), 2016
chromogenic print displayed in LED Lightbox
50 x 40 in
127 x 101.6 cm
Edition of 4
Courtesy of Blouin Division
Joseph Tisiga
The Benevolence of Nomadic Ancestors: 3 Masks, 3 Maps, 2 Camps (Map 2 of 3), 2019
Artificial grass and various objects
60 x 60 in
152.4 x 152.4 cm
Courtesy of Bradley Ertaskiran
Joseph Tisiga
The Benevolence of Nomadic Ancestors: 3 Masks, 3 Maps, 2 Camps, (Map 3 of 3), 2019
Artificial grass and various objects
60 x 60 in
152.4 x 152.4 cm
Courtesy of Bradley Ertaskiran
Katherine Takpannie
All Eyes on Mik’Ma’Ki (Ma Myriah), #3
2020
archival pigment ink print
24 x 36 in
60.96 x 91.44 cm
25 x 37 in (framed)
63.50 x 93.98 cm (framed)
edition of 5 with 2AP
Courtesy of Olga Korper Gallery
Katherine Takpannie
Inuksuk #1, 2021
archival pigment ink print, ed. 1/5 2AP
24 x 36 in
60.96 x 91.44 cm
25 x 37 in (framed)
63.50 x 93.98 cm (framed)
Courtesy of Olga Korper Gallery
Sandra Brewster
Blur 21, 2017
photo-based gel transfer on archival paper, ed. 2/3 2AP
42 x 35 in
106.68 x 88.9 cm
45¾ x 38¼ in (framed)
116.20 x 97.16 cm (framed)
Courtesy of Olga Korper Gallery
Shuvinai Ashoona
COMPOSITION (KINGNGAMIUT STUDIO PEOPLE) Cape Dorset, 2020
Ink, pastel
29 7/8 x 50 3/8 in
75.9 x 128 cm
Courtesy of Feheley Fine Arts
Sandra Brewster
Blur 20, 2021
photo-based gel transfer on archival paper
39 x 34 in
99.06 x 86.36 cm
42½ x 37 in (framed)
107.95 x 93.98 cm (framed)
Edition of 3 with 2AP
Courtesy of Olga Korper Gallery
Deanna Pizzitelli
Koza, 2015-2016
Set of 60 small Gelatin silver prints of assorted sizes, wrapped in orange lambskin leather, housed in black linen-bound box.
Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery
Deanna Pizzitelli
Solveig II, 2015
Toned gelatin silver print
9 x 7¾ in.
Signed, titled, dated, and editioned, in pencil, au verso
Printed in 2017
Edition of 5 (#2/5)
Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery
Karice Mitchell
Untitled (Woman in Gold), 2022
Archival inkjet print mounted on aluminum
58 x 48 in
60 x 50 in. (framed)
Courtesy of Franz Kaka
Karice Mitchell
Untitled Diptych (Woman in Pink Bikini), 2022
Archival inkjet print mounted on aluminum
48 x 16 in
49 x 17 in. (framed)
Courtesy of Franz Kaka
Grace Kalyta
Bike Girl Bling, 2023
Oil on canvas, satin, rhinestones, rivets
48 x 36½ in
121.92 x 92.71 cm
Courtesy of Pangée
Grace Kalyta
Princess Cut, 2023
Oil on denim panel, satin, finishings
30 x 36 in
76.2 x 91.44 cm
Courtesy of Pangée
Grace Kalyta
Double Clean, 2023
Oil on canvas, found materials, finishings
23 x 18 in
58.42 x 45.72 cm
Courtesy of Pangée
Nina Levitt
Calamity, 1991-1992
Chromogenic prints with exposed photographic paper
40 x 24 in each
101.6 x 61 cm
Signed, au verso, printed circa 1992
Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery
Karice Mitchell
Untitled (Red Acrylics), 2022
Archival inkjet print mounted on plexiglass
18 x 12 in
45.72 x 30.48 cm
Courtesy of Franz Kaka
Karice Mitchell
Untitled (Gold Hoop), 2022
Archival inkjet print mounted on plexiglass
24 x 16 in
60.96 x 40.64 cm
Courtesy of Franz Kaka
Nicolas Baier
Player One, 2020
LED Light Box
42 x 69 in.
106.68 x 175.26 cm
Edition of 3
Courtesy of Blouin Division
Preston Pavlis
Don't sell yourself away, 2023
Oil on linen, quilted onto fabric backing, safety pins
54 x 32 in
127 x 81.3
Courtesy of Bradley Ertaskiran
Preston Pavlis
Soliloquy, 2023
Oil on canvas, quilted onto fabric backing
95 x 61 in
241.3 x 154.9 Courtesy of Bradley Ertaskiran
Shuvinai Ashoona
MAKING A MOVIE, Cape Dorset, 2020
Coloured pencil, graphite, ink and pastel
32¾ x 50⅜ in
83.19 x 127.94 cm
Courtesy of Feheley Fine Arts