Join artists Eva Kolcze, Sarah Pupo and Lana Yuan on Saturday, March 26th, 2022 from 12:30 to 4:30 PM for an open house and casual conversation as we experience their current exhibitions:
Eva Kolcze: Continental Drift
Sarah Pupo: All things along with us
Lana Yuan: An Education
Eva Kolcze is a Toronto-based artist who creates films and installations that investigate themes of landscape, architecture, and the body. Her work has screened at venues and festivals including the National Gallery of Canada, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC), MOCA Toronto, the Gardiner Museum, Nuit Blanche, Cinémathèque québécoise, Birch Contemporary, and the Images Festival. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University and a Master of Fine Arts from York University.
Sarah Pupo lives and works in Tiotia:ke/Montreal. Her practice bridges watercolour painting, drawing, provisional installation, and lo-fi animation. Pupo’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at the Accademia di Romania (Rome, Italy) and Trinity Square Video (Tkaronto / Toronto, CA). In 2020 she was a resident artist at the British School in Rome. Other recent residencies include Atelier Circulaire (Tiotia:ke/Montreal, CA) and the CALQ Québec Studio in Mumbai, India. Her work has been supported through grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
Lana Yuan is a kinetic sculptor and installation artist currently based in Toronto. Her practice is driven by demonstrated contemplation of accelerated consumerism and mechanism society. By fabricating and reassembling hardware, household waste, and children’s toys, Lana explores deep personal emotions, human relations, and social attribution, Her sculptures embody cautionary observations reflecting on consumption and technology’s increasingly pervasive role in human habitual activities. Some of her shows include: “System” in Gallery 1265,UTSC campus and the Shelley Peterson Student Art Exhibition Art Museum at the University of Toronto both in 2019. She graduated in 2020 as a Bachelor of Studio Art (with Distinction) from University of Toronto.