Persimmon Blackbridge: Constructed Identities

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Persimmon Blackbridge, "dance," 2021

yellow cedar, bones, wings, oil pastel, 18” x 8”

Constructed Identities, an installation of new work by Persimmon Blackbridge, uses mixed media wood carving with found objects to question how disability is framed as a fracturing of ordinary life rather than a normal, expected part of it. Her exploration of the figure begins in disability, but necessarily complicates itself as our embodied identities intersect and overlap.

For the past 45 years, Persimmon Blackbridge has worked as a sculptor, writer, curator and performer, as well as being an editor, cleaning lady and very bad waitress. She has consistently made art on themes of disability since the late 1970s, as well as art, writing and performance on institutionalization, censorship, queer identity, generational alcoholism, feminism and war. Her latest exhibit, Constructed Identities, has been shown across Ontario and now Vancouver.

Virtual Opening & Artist Talk : Monday July 26, 2021 : 7pm – 9pm PST

Join us via Zoom for a virtual opening reception of Constructed Identities, which will include an Artist Talk by Persimmon Blackbridge and curator Yuri Arajs.

ASL & CART Captioning provided : Register : https://kickstartdisability-constructedidentitiesopening.eventbrite.hk

This exhibition is presented by Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture. Kickstart is a professional Disability Arts non-profit. Since its incorporation in 1998, their mission has been to promote artistic excellence among artists with disabilities working in a variety of disciplines and to produce and present works by artists with disabilities. www.kickstartdisability.ca