Artist
Brittney Bear Hat, Wednesday Lupypciw, Sarah Van Sloten, Heather Kai Smith, and MT JR. (Mohammad Rezaei and Joleen Toner).
EXHIBITION DATES:
Cream runs June 16 - August 21, 11:00am - 6:00pm at Contemporary Calgary. Reception June 16, 7:00pm
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Brittney Bear Hat is a graduate from the Alberta College of Art + Design in 2011, where she majored in painting with an interest in collage and drawing. Based in Calgary, her work focuses on identity and belonging. Half Blackfoot and half Cree, Bear Hat makes work about memory and how her personal history is what makes her Native. Her work involves the process of taking her own family photos or personal items and combining them with text, retelling stories and memories. With each piece, Bear Hat is trying to figure out what is hers and what she can call home.
Wednesday Lupypciw is a labourer and astrophysics student. Her occasional video + performance art practice is based in Calgary, AB.
MT JR. (Pronounced Mount Junior) is an ongoing collaboration between Mohammad Rezaei and Joleen Toner. The collective's work lies somewhere between reality and fiction, presenting plastic, utopic — ideal — versions of the world that are reconstructed and rearranged with the hopes of escaping the mundane / conforming to the norm. MT JR. aims to make the work that they want to make, not the work that is expected of them. MT JR. has exhibited nationally at POP Montreal, Sled Island Music and Arts Festival and Xpace Cultural Center.
Heather Kai Smith is an artist from Calgary, AB. Exhibiting work across Canada, attending residencies internationally and participating in workshops and festivals throughout North America, Smith’s work is engaged in drawing clues from the past to question subjectivity and loss. She is currently completing her Master’s of applied arts at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Sarah van Sloten is an Edmonton-based artist who primarily paints and makes installations. Van Sloten received her BFA from the Alberta College of Art + Design in 2010 in drawing, and completed her MFA at the University of Windsor this Spring. She has been involved in several exhibitions across Canada.
