This Week at Agnes

Final week to see

Berlin Reed: Brown Butter, The Dark Room, Hidden Currents: Koerner Artist-in-Residence Prints and the current iteration of  Collection Count + Care are on view until Sunday 10 July.  Visit Agnes before these exhibitions are gone!

Brown Butter House Party

Celebrate the last day of Brown Butter in Etherington House. Montreal’s DJs Scott C and Alexis Charpentier close the exhibition with a house party full of old-school flavour. Snacks by Kingston’s Munchy Guru.

Please note, that capacity is limited. Register for your free ticket to save a place. We may not be able to accommodate dietary restrictions.

Brown Butter is a conversation between Black Canadian artists presented as a six-week multi-disciplinary exhibition by Gastro Curator, Berlin Reed. This project pairs chefs Rawan Ali, Marissa Leon-John and Bashir Munye with artists Jade Fair, Kama La Mackerel, Kosisochukwu Nnebe, Odeimin Runners Club, Rye, Gloria C. Swain and Syrus Marcus Ware.

Transformations

Transformations is getting a lot of attention! Artists Oriah Scott, EronOne, HONE, HUNGR, AJ Little, Emily May Rose and guest graffiti artists from across the Montreal-Toronto corridor completed their installation! The site-specific commission remains on view until summer 2023. Read more.

Curated by Oriah Scott

The residency, large-scale, site-specific commission and experiential education initiative are conceived and produced by Emelie Chhangur, Agnes Director and Curator in partnership with Patricia Smithen, Assistant Professor, Paintings Conservation and Director, Art Conservation Program, Queens University.

Generously funded by the Stonecroft Foundation and the City of Kingston Arts Fund, Kingston Arts Council.

The Fabrics of Representation

The Fabrics of Representation draws from a variety of Agnes’s collections to highlight how European painting genres such as still life, portraiture and history painting employed elements of increasingly global material culture to new representational ends. In addition to realistically rendering a large variety of surfaces and textures, painters were advised to combine their skills in observation with their imagination to invent deceptively lifelike compositions. Representation, in this sense, takes on a double meaning—of artistic likeness as well as a complex process of signification. Works on display include recently acquired seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish paintings by Carstian Luyckx, Pieter Claesz, Constantijn Verhout and Jan van Noordt.

Curated by Suzanne van de Meerendonk and generously supported by the Bader Legacy Fund.