Susan Shantz and Lezli Rubin-Kunda with Honor Kever: Shedding
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A.K.A. Gallery 424 20 St W, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7M 0X4
Susan Shantz, "caul ii," 2018
mixed media (Image credit: Jason Castro).
Opening: Thursday March 14, 8pm
Artist Talk with Lezli Rubin-Kunda: Thursday March 7, 12pm at Gordon Snelgrove Gallery
Mothers’ Centre Tea and Sale: Friday April 12
Susan Shantz and Lezli Rubin-Kunda with Honor Kever
Shedding is a hybrid curatorial/collaborative process-based exhibition that explores the intersection of art and everyday actions. It includes the work of three women artists who interrogate the domestic in light of their parallel productions as artists and investigates how women artists integrate their careers with the stuff of everyday life.
The blurred boundary between art and life can result in imaginative responses that cross- pollinate art and domestic life. For artists with children, especially those that are leaving the “nest,” this might include the accumulated stuff of parenting – materials transformed through live action in rituals of shedding years of layered accretions. Existing photo murals by Honor Kever (The Brooding Rooms, 1986-88) provide a context for Susan Shantz and Lezli-Rubin-Kunda to work collaboratively in the gallery with materials from earlier stages of life in ritualized processes of transformation. A reflective text is provided by art writer, Joan Borsa.
Included in this exhibition will be work created by women at the Mother’s Centre, Station 20 West, where Shantz has facilitated arts-based workshops over the past year. A closing tea party/craft market will take place at AKA on Friday, April 12 in support of the Mother’s Centre.