The Art Gallery of Windsor is launching three new exhibitions celebrating the work of local artists in honour of Windsor's 125th birthday this spring.
The exhibits Local Matters: Mary Celestino, Elio Del Col, Adèle Duck, Zeke Moores and Tony Mosna, Position As Desired: Exploring African Canadian Identity/Photographs, and Suzy Lake: Performing an Archive opened this week.
They focus on "ways in which the artists experience and materialize the notion of 'home'" in honour of Windsor's 125th birthday and Canada's 150th.
The Winter-Spring 2017 exhibitions will be open at the gallery until May 7, 2017.
Tony Mosna; The Artist as Witch Doctor, 1990-1991, colour etching and woodblock on paper, 4 of a varied edition of 9; 57.0 x 76.0 cm, Collection of the AGW
Suzy Lake; 322 Beaubien, Dorothy Evers-Marx, 1910-13, archival inkjet print, shot in 2014, printed in 2016; Courtesy of the Artist
Sign (Dawit L. Petros)
Image credit - Position As Desired:
Dawit L. Petros; Sign, 2003, 172 x 132.7cm
Image credit - Local Matters:
Elio Del Col; Morning Light, 1989, silkscreen print and embossing; 53.3 x 27.9 cm, Collection of the AGW
Suzy Lake; 1287 Russell Avenue, Anna Hansmann-Marx, 1886, archival inkjet print, shot in 2014, printed in 2016; Courtesy of the Artist
