The ‘School Times’ exhibition provides students with an opportunity to show works that they normally would have shown in graduating and thesis exhibits. COVID has been stressful for students and they have had to adapt to new ways of learning. Gallery 1313 usually has many student exhibitions at this time of year: graduating and thesis exhibitions. This exhibition enables students to showcase their work online, even if they can’t do it in the gallery this year.
Afifa B.
- ‘Conscious’
- 36″ x 48″
- Oil on Canvas
Primarily using oil paints, my compilation of works reflects my internal struggle linked to my shopping habits. My work plunges into capturing the fabrication of clothing, and its impact on our environment.
Afifa B.
- ‘Tinged’
- 36″ x 36″
- Oil on Canvas
Focusing on consumerism and capitalist-values, I discuss consumerism from different perspectives. My recent work titled Vogue pays homage to our desires and the stem of those desires through forms of media, including magazines and advertisements catered to us.
Amina Boufennara
This piece is titled “Woven memories”. It is an expression of my identity and my memories through a visual language. I am expressing in this piece an integration of being born in Algeria coming from a mixed Amazigh background and being brought up in Canada. These are painted with acrylic on canvas, as well as including sewing, threads and beads.
Alexandra Stefan
- ‘The Strong Side’
- Bronze and Crystal
- 2019
My work is both a refuge and an outburst of expression. It grants me the freedom to shape the words I am bound to keep silent.
I aim to pierce through the masks we hide behind in our mundane existence and sculpt the turmoil of emotions often betrayed by strangers’ eyes.
… the tremor of an unforgivable betrayal.
The ecstasy of a wild dance.
A scream of overwhelming joy.
Or a silent gaze over still waters…
Alexandra Stefan
- ‘Tears’
- Bronze and Crystal
- 2019
In every sculpture I strive to combine crystal and bronze in a suggestive stanza, where they bond to contrast and complete each other, thus telling a story to the audience.
The translucent frailty of the glass grasps the amber strength of the bronze, as they embrace in a powerful outburst of expression.
Hadia Hassan
- ‘Subway Line’
- Oil on canvas
- 30” x 40”
- 2020
My series, (Em)Bracing Canada, consists of portraits of first-generation immigrants to Canada. My paintings depict individuals who have immigrated and explore how one must reconcile differences in cultural practices between their actual and adopted homes.
Hadia Hassan
- ‘At the CNE’
- Oil on canvas
- 30” x 40”
- 2020
The portraits aim to capture the ambivalence new immigrants feel as they begin settling and recreating their sense of ‘home.’
Sasha Nandan-Sutherland
- ‘Futuristic Toronto’
- Acrylic paint
- W 24″ x H 30″
- 2020
Throughout my Fine Art studies, I have recently been curious about cities and the feeling of them being known as busy, bright and crowded. I have created a series that focuses on making utopian cities that have futuristic elements to them, as architectural designs advance over the years.
Sasha Nandan-Sutherland
- ‘Tokyo 2.0’
- Acrylic paint
- W 24″ x H 30″
- 2020
Throughout my Fine Art studies, I have recently been curious about cities and the feeling of them being known as busy, bright and crowded. I have created a series that focuses on making utopian cities that have futuristic elements to them, as architectural designs advance over the years.
Suzanne Simoni
- ‘Reclining Figure‘
- Found steel
- 8” x 8” x 17”
- 2017
My art practice is an investigation into the precarious landscape of interdependence of our human and more-than-human ecosystems.
Suzanne Simoni
- ‘Conversation Bench Maquette‘
- Bronze
- 7” x 4” x 3”
- 2018
Materials such as bronze, aluminum and Canadian Shield rocks imply solidity but ironically capture ephemerality. Navigating these concepts is to recognize our place within ecosystems as connected and important in every action we perform.
Zishuo Li
- ‘Rhythm‘
- Coconut shell charcoal, reed leaves on mulberry paper on wood board
- 4ft x 3ft
- 2021
From microorganisms to animals, every life is connected in a complex and fragile network of solids, liquids, and gases that make up our material world.
- Email: zishuo.li1018@gmail.com
- Website: www.zishuoli.com
- Instagram: zis_li
Zishuo Li
- ‘Cosmos I‘
- Rose juice, mix berries juice, dandelion juice, and gelatin on rice paper on wood board
- 24″ x 36″
- 2020
To appreciate and reinforce this connection, I collect raw materials, experiment and create new recipes for pigment making, and use only natural materials to make my pieces.
- Email: zishuo.li1018@gmail.com
- Website: www.zishuoli.com
- Instagram: zis_li