Imprint Juried Exhibition

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Invitation design by Edith Krause

Janice Beaudoin, “Take the E-Train,” nd

The Fort Gallery’s 2019 juried exhibition contemplates the imprinted mark and its conceptual significance. The word imprint conjures up many meanings: from printmaking, the process of creating an image from a matrix; from biology, the process of interpreting DNA into protein, the imprinting of parents on their young or our ecological footprint. The process of imprinting is everywhere; everything we touch and every place we go, we leave a trace of ourselves; everything we do leaves a mark, a consequence.

46 submitted pieces exploring this theme were reviewed; 12 artworks were selected. The included artists are: Emily Arnett, Janice Beaudoin, W. Bennett Brown, Olivia de Fleuriot Perry, Susan Germain, Erica Grimm, Jenny Hawkinson, Sunette Holmes Louw, David Martinello, Adrienne Moore, Vicky Paradice and Kara Wightman.

Please join us for the opening reception, Friday, April 5th, 7-9pm. Many of the artists will be in and will be giving short talks on their work.

On April 26th at 7pm, the Fort Gallery is pleased to host Fort Langley poet/author Susan McCaslin who will read from her most recent book on Thomas Merton, concurrent with the gallery’s 2019 juried exhibition Imprint.

Susan McCaslin is a poet and Thomas Merton scholar who has recently collaborated with J.S. Porter on a volume of creative non-fiction, Superabundantly Alive: Thomas Merton’s Dance with the Feminine (Wood Lake, Oct. 2018). She is also the author of fifteen volumes of poetry, including her most recent, Into the Open: Poems New and Selected (Inanna, 2017). Susan will be presenting from her most recent book of creative nonfiction on the contemplative writer Thomas Merton. Her talk explores how Merton’s union of words and silences has the capacity to imprint wisdom on the minds and hearts of engaged readers. www.susanmccaslin.ca

The Fort Gallery thanks the Township of Langley for sponsorship of 4th Friday community arts events. The gallery also wishes to acknowledge support for this particular 4th Friday event from the League of Canadian Poets and the Canada Council for the Arts.