Cassia Powell: in between you and me
in between you and me is a solo exhibition of select works by Vancouver-based emerging artist Cassia Powell.
This body of work develops themes exploring what writer Gavin Butt refers to as a ‘social activity which produces and maintains the filiations of the artistic community,’ namely – gossip. Using soft-sculptures and oil paintings, in between you and me explores intimacy, vulnerability, story-telling, and worldbuilding through painting and fibres-based installation. Approaching gossip as a form of unconventional art history, or an inescapable feature of metropolitan artistic life, and exhibiting it through a queer, quotidian, affective visual approach.
Biography
Cassia Powell (they/them) is an emerging contemporary artist and curator based in the unceded lands of Lekwungen-speaking peoples, otherwise known as Victoria, BC. Powell is a BFA Visual Arts honours graduate from the University of Victoria. Between their personal artistic practice and their curatorial focus, Powell鈥檚 work explores comfort + care as a radical act of social resistance through a combination of soft sculpture and oil painting.
They are the co-founder of the Dirty Dishes Collective, a curatorial project which aims to support emerging artists and cultural practitioners as a site of critical discourse, creative experimentation, and community engagement.
Cassia has exhibited at Open Space (Victoria), ED Video Guelph (Guelph), and has been nominated for the BMO First Art Award. Most recently, they exhibited their second solo exhibition, 鈥淧laythings鈥�, at 100% Silk (Toronto).
Cassia Powell acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.聽
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