Visual Art
Chantelle Trainor-Matties
Abbotsford, BC, CANADA - Take a look through this submission from BC Artist, Chantelle Trainor-Matties. This showcase of heart and versatility is a true treat.
Linda Tien
Bloomington, IN, USA - This submission from Artist, Linda Tien, really explores the visceral edge of art. Her piece “The Perfect Fit” translates as an interactive experience through the screen!
Roxane Fallah
Vancouver, BC, CANADA - Check out this submission from Vancouver Artist, Roxane Fallah. Incredibly innovative and creative, this is sure to push your personal notion of fashion into uncharted and exciting waters.
Hsiao-Chu (Julia) Hsia
Long Island City, NY, USA - Wrap yourself in this submission from Performance Artist, Hsiao-Chu, or Julia, Hsia. Watching a body move in tandem with it’s environment has left me with a grounded and refreshing energy.
Freddie Lambright, III
San Leandro, CA, USA - Please spend some time with this submission from Freddie Lambright, III. His piece “Negro Currency” is loaded with powerful imagery sure to invoke a moment of silence followed by an urgent push for action.
Laura Rivera
Richmond, BC, CANADA - Take a browse through Artist, Laura Rivera’s, cover art and enjoy this sneak peek that’ll pull you into her original stories.
Youssef Elgohary
Toronto, ON, CANADA - This submission from Artist, Youssef Elgohary, utilizes the familiar colours of beloved social media platforms to make a statement criticizing them. Take a deep dive into some subject matter that we’re hardwired to believe is only for casual wading.
Kiana Honarmand
Mountain View, CA, USA - Do yourself a favour and spend some time with this striking submission from Kiana Honarmand. The interplay of light, shadow, and heart is sure to take your breath away.
Shazia Ahmad
Brossard, QC, CANADA - This submission from Artist, Shazia Ahmad, pushes me to look at my own isolation through an outward lens. Though we sit in our disconnection, this diorama’s vibrancy reminds me that we are not our perception, our distilled interpretations are a piece of a much larger and more colourful picture.
Andre Pace
Phoenix, AZ, USA - Pushing the eye with bold strokes and bright colours, this submission from Artist, Andre Pace, will liven your space while stretching your perception.
David Yu
Toronto, CANADA - David is an interdisciplinary artist who’s work includes sculpture and installation, audio, video, and live performance. His work pushes boundaries, reflects on process, and pushes viewers in the way that they experience and interact with the work. Check out his latest work: x-in-waiting
Someone’s in here
Montréal, QC, CANADA - I feel like so many of us see isolation as a cold and lonely affair, when a silver lining could possibly be the relationships we’re fostering with ourselves. This submission by Artist, Alissa Zilber, depicts bodies alone in space, but their inner worlds are suggested through the Artists filter, highlighting a vibrancy that we might otherwise let pass by.
Beated Heart/Sister Heads/Textures
Toronto, CANADA - Each of these pieces from multidisciplinary artist, Jet Coghlan, have a subtext of hope. Hope that we’ll treat ourselves better, hope that good will emerge from the bad, and the hope intrinsic in seeing a familiar city through a different set of eyes. Leaf through this submission and move through the rest of your day slightly changed.
Youngheui Lee Lim
New City, NY, USA - Take a browse through these haunting renderings by Artist, Youngheui Lee Lim, who’s perspective is clearly augmented by a discerning and astute eye.
Carol Auld: Art in a time of COVID19
Victoria, BC, CANADA - Beautiful British Columbia greets an Artist’s gaze with familiarity. Though BC’s temperate rainforests are just out of reach for so many of us, these pieces by Artist, Carol Auld, embody the region’s inexplicable glow.
Sam Vernon: Future Shock
Los Angeles, CA, USA - While you’re hopefully staying put, take your eye on a trip. This exhibition by Artist, Sam Vernon, disrupts your gaze and forces a second look. The gallery’s blank space takes on angular strokes of vibrant turbulence, sure to provide a thrill.
Adaptation
Brampton, ON, CANADA - Colour and texture rejoice in this ultra-fun submission from Visual Artist, Diana Rosa. Blending the human form with plant life in a way I haven’t yet seen, our plant neighbours are presented as valuable team members in the fight for global unity and sustainability.
60 Pounds of Pressure
Houston, TX, USA - The crushing weight of caring for another during these perilous times is personified in this exhibition by Artist, Sarah Sudhoff. I highly recommend pressing play on her video option, by the end which I found myself grasping at my own chest, short of breath.
Dréa Collage
Québec, CANADA - Get swept away in Artist, Andrée-Anne Guay’s vibrant, Ibiza inspired submission. With a gorgeous still photograph included for comparison, that mediterranean breeze almost feels within reach.