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Jinny Yu, Don't They Ever Stop Migrating? 2015, ink on fabric and sound. Purchase, the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Grants program and the Donald Murray Shepherd Bequest Fund, 2016 (59-012). Photograph by Darrell Edwards.
EXHIBITIONS
The hold: movements in the contemporary collection
25 August–2 December 2018
Contemporary Feature and Samuel J. Zacks Galleries
Curated by Sunny Kerr, Curator of Contemporary Art with Dr Lisa Figge

Guided by the gestures and imaginaries of works from the collectionsuch as amassing and splitting figures or tracing paths across grounds­­this exhibition concentrates on hindrance and movement, from the global to the intimate. The exhibition includes works by John Abrams, Stephen Andrews, Shuvinai Ashoona, Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge, Shary Boyle, Napoleon Brousseau, Luc Courchesne, John Dickson, Will Gorlitz, Freda Guttman, Geoffrey James, Kingston Residents of the Prison for Women, Jeneen Frei Njootli, William Strang, Jinny Yu and Natalie Majaba Waldburger. Kingston artist and researcher, Dr Lisa Figge was consultant on the formation of the exhibition.

Shary Boyle, Interruption, 2006, polymer clay, gouache, paper and thread. Gift of the Artist, 2010.

Shary Boyle, Interruption, 2006, polymer clay, gouache, paper and thread. Gift of the Artist, 2010.

Freda Guttman, Every Epoch Dreams, 1999–2000, motorized sculpture. Purchase, Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program and the Chancellor Richardson Memorial Fund, 2002. Photo: Paul Litherland

Freda Guttman, Every Epoch Dreams, 1999–2000, motorized sculpture. Purchase, Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program and the Chancellor Richardson Memorial Fund, 2002.

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