Part of their Spring Has Sprung event.
OAG held their Firestone Gallery Reverb/Talk Series with Don Kwan at the Alma Duncan Theatre on a nice Sunday afternoon.
There was great sample tasting dumplings and spring rolls from Hung Sum.
Exhibition at the Firestone Gallery called Landscape, Loss, and Legacy which is about his artwork exploring place, identity, representation and family memory across time.
Using a multidisciplinary approach for this exhibition, Kwan engages with the City of Ottawa’s Firestone Collection of Canadian Art (FCCA).
Reflecting upon modernist depictions of landscape in Canada, Kwan explores legacies of inclusion and exclusion, rooted in land-based settler colonialism. Whether landscape, abstraction, or portraiture, 20th-century Canadian modernism, which is the basis of the FCCA, was founded at a time when discriminatory policies such as the Chinese Exclusion Act were in place, affecting the participation of Chinese-Canadian artists in artistic circles.
The conversation with Don Kwan was with Alexandra Badzak, Catherine Sinclair (OAG Deputy Director, Chief Curator), Meghan Ho (OAG).
It was a great in-depth chat on the history and work about the current exhibition which runs until January 22, 2023.
Check out the gallery.
OAG’s Firestone Reverb Series with Don Kwan
