up front w/ Robin Arseneault, Nathan Eugene Carson, Mark Dicey, Marigold Santos

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Robin Arseneault

Robin Arseneault is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art & Design (BFA, 1998) and the Edinburgh College of Art (MFA, 2005). A semi-finalist for the Sobey Art Award in 2007, she received the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award in 2008, and has been awarded grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Alberta Heritage. Her practice is diverse: sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, collage, animation, video and the creation of artist-books.

She has an active record of exhibitions including Canada, the USA, Scotland, Germany, Italy and The Netherlands. In 2011, she collaborated with Paul Jackson to complete the public sculpture commission, Hunting Blindfor the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, that was on view at the Art Gallery of Alberta.

Nathan Eugene Carson

Nathan Eugene Carson (b. 1980) holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Ontario College of Art and Design. His drawings and paintings have been featured in several solo and group exhibitions across Ontario including presentations at Verso Gallery (2013) and The Drake Hotel (2014) in Toronto; Free Fall (2016) and Worked Over (2017) both at Oswald Gallery, Hamilton; 100 Paintings (2019) at The Carnegie Gallery, Dundas; and Pansies (2021) at Paul Elia Gallery, Hamilton to name a select few. Carson’s recent travelling solo-exhibition, Cut From The Same Cloth (2020-2021), was presented at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and the Meridian Arts Centre, Toronto. He is currently the RBC Artist-In-Residence at the Art Gallery of Hamilton where is completely a yearlong exhibition titled Black Carnival (2023).

Mark Dicey

Calgary painter Mark Dicey was born in 1959 and graduated from the Alberta College of Art in 1983. Since that time he has taught at the Alberta College of Art & Design (Alberta University of Art) and been a pinnacle member of the Calgary art community for over 30 years.

His work can be found in collections such as the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the City of Calgary, Canadian Foreign Affairs (Belgium), Scotia Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, the Glencoe Club (Calgary), the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise and more.

Marigold Santos

Marigold Santos was born in the Philippines, and immigrated with her family to Canada in 1988. She pursues an inter-disciplinary art practice that examines lived experience and storytelling, presented within the otherworldly. Her work explores self-hood and identity that embraces multiplicity, fragmentation and empowerment, as informed by experiences of movement and migration.

She holds a BFA from the University of Calgary, an MFA from Concordia University, and is a recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec. Recent exhibitions include MALAGINTO at the Montreal Arts Interculturels (Montreal, 2019), SURFACE TETHER at the Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton, 2019), MALAGINTO at the Dunlop Gallery (Regina, 2019), and Relations: Painting and Diaspora at Fondation Phi (Montreal, 2020). This past year, Marigold was one of the five finalists awarded the 2020 MNBAQ Contemporary Art Award.