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The theme of self-depiction and identity has been a driving force behind Lucas Samaras' practice, which, at its onset in the early 1960s, advanced the Surrealist idiom yet proposed a radical departure from the presiding themes of Abstract…

Rajni Perera was born in Sri Lanka in 1985 and lives and works in Toronto. She explores issues of hybridity, futurity, ancestorship, migrant and marginalized identities/cultures, monsters and dream worlds. These themes come together to fuel…

Jagdeep Raina (b. 1991, Guelph, Ontario, Canada) has an interdisciplinary practice that spans textile, drawing, writing, ceramics, 35mm film and video animation, Jagdeep Raina utilizes the archive in order to explore historical memory. His…

Building on legacies of migration and queer studies, Daniel Lie’s work demonstrates how abjection can be a tool of subversion and expansion. Their practice celebrates natural cycles of transformation and the many interdependent exchanges that…

"The Los Angeles-based artist is interested in unpicking our relationship to perception. She draws on the experimental psychology processes pioneered by John and Joyce Weir. The Weirs were interested in how reality was created by language. Mahinay…

Dachi Cole is a mixed media artist working with collage, sculpture, sound, illustration, animation and textile. Often inspired by the talismans of childhood, she uses found and recycled objects to inform her practice.

"In the sensually organic sculptures and wall pieces by the young German artist Jens Kothe, everything revolves around the human body: Vulnerability and closeness are reflected in highly magnified and often abstracted details. Kothe makes use of…

"My paintings, artist books, and textile works mine non-verbal forms of communication, symbolism, and abstraction. By repeating a personal constellation of motifs to enact slippages in translation, I explore the ways in which shared cultural…

Sophy Naess (b.1982, Chicago, Illinois) is trained as an oil painter and maintains an active multidisciplinary practice that includes weaving, writing, and various print based projects. Observational painting is a constant in her work, and in recent…