Sima Elizabeth Shefrin, Darian Goldin Stahl and Gerry Yaum: Healing Process

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Darian Goldin Stahl, "MRI IN USE (installation detail), " 2016

toner transfer onto waxed silk and projection (seven individual gowns)

Opening Reception and Artwalk: Thursday, Aug 3, 6 – 9 pm

The creative process is a healer. Healing Process brings together three artists who each use their artistic practice to explore the illnesses of their loved ones, to interpret treatment, pain and tragedy, and reconcile their own emotions and understanding of their experiences.

Social documentary photographer Gerry Yaum seeks to tell the stories of forgotten and marginalised people. His deeply personal series My Father's Last Days documents the final 13 months of his father's battle with pancreatic cancer. Through a series of poignant black and white portraits, Yaum endeavours to understand and capture his father's struggle and create a memorial to him. 

Artist Talk with Gerry Yaum, on Thursday, Aug 31, 6:30 -7:30pm

British Columbia-based artist Sima Elizabeth Shefrin's innovative series the Embroidered Cancer Comic chronicles her journey with her husband following his diagnosis prostate cancer diagnosis. The embroidered-fabric pieces focus on the couple’s day-to-day and life changing events as they acquiesce and experience the unexpected impacts of cancer treatment. 

Darian Goldin Stahl's intriguing installation, MRI IN USE includes a series of life-sized suspended hospital gown prints. These transparent forms seemingly hover between the gallery space and the viewer. The print-based installation emerged from an ongoing collaboration between the artist and her sister—a clinical bioethicist diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Stahl’s work offers a glimpse into the experience of navigating a medical diagnosis and living with chronic illness.