May 10 to June 22, 2023
Maria Hupfield and Karen Tam: Snip, Cut, Stitch, Slice
Meet the artists May 20 from 3 to 5PM
Galerie Hugues Charbonneau is proud to present, Snip, Cut, Stitch, Slice, an exhibition on material and process featuring new and recent works by Maria Hupfield and Karen Tam. Spanning the past 20 years both artists have developed individual practices that bind the contemporary hand-made object to cultural value in relationships of deep exploration, experimentation, and play. Hupfield’s dynamic practice merges performance art and industrial felt sculptures with hand sewing techniques to imagine new relationships between the body, the everyday and the art object, while Tam’s works draw from Chinese Canadian histories, using embroidered banners and weavings to explore community identity. Together, the artists offer a range of approaches in a rich and thought-provoking dialogue between their works.
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