Lexiquette

GRACIAS to everyone who came by and showed love at S P A N G L I S H - curated by lexiquette.

The exhibition will be up at Blank Canvas Toronto until Friday if you want to come check it out. In the meanwhile, check out this AMAZING recap of last weekend by Juan M. Angel (Foto Juan)

Spanglish Group Exhibition - July 2017 SPANGLISH is a group exhibition that brings together the stories, voices and creations of ten Latinx emerging artists. Photography, painting, illustration and sculpture…

I got interviewed by the rad creatives over at New Currency and (full disclosure) I always get super nervous when the interview tables are turned on me but Kazeem Kuteyi is amazing and we had a really great conversation if you want to take a listen :)

Photos by Nefertiti Hernandez

A Conversation with Arts Curator, Alexia Bréard-Anderson. Her platform Lexiquette which she founded in 2013 is dedicated to putting artists on through interviews and curated exhibitions around the city.

No More Bath Bombs at Unlovable Gallery
Photos by Juan Saavedra

NO MORE BATH BOMBS is a group exhibition that reimagines self-love as an act of resistance. Whether you’re into long hugs, charcoal masks or not washing your hair for a week; join us as we embrace rage, embody vulnerability and wade through sadness with claws out.

Featuring the work of

Cherry Kutti :: http://www.cherrykutti.com/
Ness Lee :: http://www.nesslee.com/
Lauren Pirie :: http://www.laurenpirie.com/
Tabban Soleimani :: http://www.tabban.ca/

NO MORE BATH BOMBS is a group exhibition that reimagines self-love as an act of resistance. Whether you’re into long hugs, charcoal masks or not washing your hair for a week; join us as we embrace rage, embody vulnerability and wade through sadness with claws out.

Featuring the work of

Cherry Kutti :: http://www.cherrykutti.com/
Ness Lee :: http://www.nesslee.com/
Lauren Pirie :: http://www.laurenpirie.com/
Tabban Soleimani :: http://www.tabban.ca/

CALL FOR LATINX ARTISTS & VENDORS

I'm curating an exhibition at Blank Canvas Gallery that will take place during the Salsa On St Clair weekend (July 7-9).

SUBMISSIONS INFO

🌿Artwork needs to be ready to hang/display. Please send the title, medium, dimensions & price. There is no artist fee and sold works will be split 60% artist/40% gallery.

🌿The pop-up will run from 12-8pm on Saturday, July 8th and Sunday, July 9th. The tabling fee is $60/day or $100 for both days. 100% profit goes to the vendors.

🌿Deadline is next Friday, June 16th at midnight. Please email submissions & questions to Alexia at [email protected] ❤️

🍊excerpt from my interview with Trudy Erin Elmore who has a solo show opening tom at 🍊 "We see the world in binaries, so it’s really easy to view new and emerging forms of technology as vapid, cold and hyper-rational. But, if we can adjust our perception and think about technology, like the internet, as a part of us—as humanity’s nervous system, a sense of the collective consciousness begins to emerge." 📸

"One time, someone was critiquing my work and said something along the lines of “the colours you use aren’t really native”. I kind of stopped and looked at him and was like what do you mean? Red? So I can live in an urban space like everybody else but I need to make art a certain way? I remember feeling slapped in the face. We’re fighting so hard for our identities now with the Truth & Reconciliation Commission and Sixties Scoop and MMIW (Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women), we’re trying so hard to root ourselves so being perceived as not good enough is a deep pain that goes back generations. Whatever happened in our past with colonization and cultural genocide affects all of us every single day. When perceptions like this are said to me, it’s almost like being stomped on. Especially when I think about our brothers and sisters who don’t know where they came from and are trying to reclaim that and trying to figure out who their families are and are being told about blood quantum, being asked what percentage of Native they are. It’s less our problem, it’s more so other people not understanding or having their own pre-conceived notions that bring resentment towards us. We can’t really hold onto that, right? We need to keep moving forward and keep educating, and especially as creative people find creative solutions to battling that ignorance."

Nancy King (Chief Lady Bird Art) shot by Joanne Chung

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Systems of colonialism, racism, xenophobia, sexism etc etc are ALIVE & WELL in Canada. Idolizing this country in comparison to the US is more harmful than not. Work by Greg Curnoe at .

Dismantling a global system deeply rooted in hate & violence begins with taking a good hard look at ourselves, unpacking what we've internalized individually & challenge what silences us by collectively putting our voices, our stories, our circles, our talents & creativity into motion to AGITATE and EDUCATE and ORGANIZE and most of all understand intersectionality, manifest unity and fight division with love in a movement that we are all in together.

Zoe Leonard, I Want A President (1992) via

I had the absolute pleasure of visiting the studio of Nancy King (Chief Lady Bird Art), First Nations (Potawatomi and Chippewa) artist and all-around-maker from Rama First Nation, whose practice weaves together contemporary painting techniques with traditional Indigenous craft materials to navigate the intricacy of identity, representation and intergenerational knowledge. We sat down and had a thought-provoking conversation about empowering our youth, the power of sisterhood and decolonizing through art, collaboration and healing.

Shot by Joanne Chung

Nancy King (Chief Lady Bird): Sisterhood, youth empowerment and decolonizing through art & healing I had the absolute pleasure of visiting the studio of Nancy King, First Nations (Potawatomi and Chippewa) artist and all-around-maker from Rama First Nation. Nancy's Anishinabee name is Ogimaakwebnes, which means Chief Lady Bird, and her practice weaves together contemporary painting techniques with...

MUSINGS + PROJECTS

I've been incredibly busy and haven't posted in a while, so in light of that I've begun a little blog for you to take a glimpse at what I've been up to besides interviewing emerging artists. First post features a stand-in we organized last week with .

Students in Solidarity with #NosotrasParamos Along with friends and fellow Latinx artists Maria Dana Prieto (ARG) and Jessica De Vittoris (MEX), we organized a stand-in at OCAD University to reject the silence against gender-based violence to stand together in solidarity with .