Jasmine Cardenas

Jasmine Cardenas is a Canadian-Ecuadorian multidisciplinary artist currently based in Hamilton, ON. She holds a BFA from OCAD University.

Working in painting, sculpture, collage and installation, Cardenas combines elements from varying mediums to create a communicative relationship between them.

Inspired by Latin American textiles, and how these textiles are used as a form of communication via symbol and colour, Cardenas’ paintings exhibit powerful imagery and bold palettes. Family and family history has recently been at the forefront of her practice, ensuring that their cultural traditions, histories, and memories are immortalized. Cardenas references and records culturally relevant symbols, patterns, forms, and palettes in her paintings creating abstracted narratives that are specific to some, yet ambiguous to others. In this way, her work becomes a method of visual story-telling.

Hannah Johnson

"My work formally explores form, surface, colour and material integration. Using inspiration from the world around me, I create sculptural objects that reflect my own notions of beauty, humour, and the sense of child-like wonder that is lost as time passes. Inspirations include the hardware store, food, nature, and kids crafting materials. 

While making, I consider if a person can be hard and soft, serious and playful, youthful and mature, simultaneously. By incorporating play and experimentation in the making process, I reflect on how these contradictions can come together in form, surface, colour, and materiality.

 I am interested in emphasising the aspects of the world that as a child I unabashedly loved, including bright colours, silly forms, and captivating materials. Child-like wonder is important; it draws you in and encourages you to slow down and look at the world around you a little closer without concern of judgement."

Andrea Taylor

Andrea Taylor is a Canadian artist, based in Vancouver, whose work considers body fragility/strength, temporality, corporeality, movement, and the experience the viewer has with the work. Using mostly commonplace materials, she creates abstract mixed-media sculptures, stop-motion videos, and drawings. Andrea holds an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts (2014). In 2017 she completed an Anvil Centre Artist Residency as well as a Banff Centre Spring Intensive Residency. 

Past solo shows include Mónica Reyes Gallery (2022), Malaspina Printmakers and Back Gallery Project. One of her videos was included in God in Reverse: When Wisdom Defies Capture, digital exhibition curated by Mohammad Salemy for Richmond Art Gallery in 2020. In 2022, her work was featured in a three-person exhibition at Gordon Smith Gallery with M.E. Sparks and Russna Kaur, curated by Kate Henderson. She has taught for many years for Continuing Studies at Emily Carr University.

Kelly Uyeda

Kelly Uyeda is a Japanese-Canadian painter. Uyeda received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Guelph (2022) and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Ontario College of Art and Design University (2015).

Uyeda uses decorative pattern to study how the habits and pleasures of looking animate our surroundings. Her work depicts motifs drawn from textiles, architectural details or industrial design, which are detached from their function and opened to multiple associations and sites of recognition. These motifs index a Canadian material landscape while they are painted with a sensibility influenced by Japanese aesthetics and design. Uyeda’s paintings are an invitation to stretch one’s way of looking at everyday objects. Her work connects pattern to domesticity and perceptual experience.