Emmanuel Osahor: East of Here
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Harcourt House Artist Run Centre 10215 112 Street - 3rd flr, Edmonton, Alberta T5K 1M7
Emmanuel Osahor
Join us on Friday, January 11, 2019 from 7 pm to 10 pm at Harcourt House Galleries for the official opening of two powerful exhibitions:
Contemplation for Obsolete Objects: Postscript by Antonietta Grassiand East of Here by Emmanuel Osahor
The Artists’ Talk by Antonietta Grassi and Emmanuel Osahor will take place at 7:30 pm. A wine & cheese reception (cash bar) will follow the official opening. Admission is FREE.
The Art Incubator Gallery showcases East of Here by Emmanuel Osahor, an Edmonton based emerging visual artist and the recipient of Honourable Mention in the 2018 RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Utilizing photography, painting, and collage as a research material , Emmanuel creates immersive large-scale paintings that investigate the complicated individual moments in constructed sanctuary spaces.
Emmanuel Osahor graduated in 2015 with BFA in Art and Design from the University of Alberta. His work has been a subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions at the SNAP Gallery, Art Gallery at Milner – Edmonton Public Library, THE WORKS – International Festival of Art and Design, FAB Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto, and the Art Gallery of Alberta, to name just a few. In 2017, Emmanuel Osahor received the Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers RISE Award in Arts and Culture. With the assistance of the grants from Edmonton Arts Council, Osahor has embarked on extensive research for his several projects, including “The Distance Between Us”, “You Are Here”, “And Then My Hands Shook”, “Fractures”, ”My Journey”, and “Green Pastures”. These projects – some were collaborative ventures – discuss a broad range of topics, including: aspects of humankind at the beginning of the 21st Century, the nature of dual existence in contemporary society, the human relationship to the past, the role of memory in this experience, immigration, degradation of the communities, the nature of violence in contemporary society, homelessness, and fragility of eco system, among other aspects. These projects use the powerful tool of artistic expression to reflect the artist’s concerns and to document critical aspects of the human condition at this pivotal moment in the history of humankind. Osahor’s large scale installation, “In Search of Eden” was presented during 2018 THE WORKS International Festival of Arts and Design in Edmonton. His other multi-media installation, "Paradise and Folly" was featured in the 2018 Nuit Blanche Edmonton.For more info click here