Splitting Distance Opens Wednesday, October 9, 2024 at The Red Head Gallery

Splitting Distance

OCTOBER 9 - NOVEMBER 2, 2024

CLOSING reception: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 5 - 8 PM

Reading circle with the CARBON Collective: Saturday, November 2, 10:30 am - 12 noon

The Red Head Gallery

401 Richmond St West Suite 115

Toronto, ON     M5V 3A8 (map)

416-504-5654

Gallery Hours: WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY 12 - 5 PM

Red Head Gallery Website

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Sarah Kernohan. Splitting Distance 3. Pigment print on Hahnemüle agave paper, 69.2 x 61 cm (27.25 x 24 in), 2024. 

Splitting Distance opens at the Red Head Gallery this week.

The exhibition features a series of photographic collages that transmit icy surfaces, tumultuous waters, rocky shores, and portals. This flint originated from the shores of France or the United Kingdom and is now found in Glace Bay, whose namesake was coined by French settlers, who named the location “Baie de Glace” (Bay of Ice). The chalky surface of the flint gives way to semi-translucent surfaces with reflective flecks and shards, similar to the textures and patterns found in ice and light bouncing off of water. 

I will be at the gallery on Saturdays, October 19 and 26, from 12 to 5 PM, and there will be a closing reception on Friday, November 1, from 5 to 8 PM. 

I’m thrilled to collaborate with the CARBON Collective, who will host an informal reading and conversation about ethical ecological practices on Saturday, November 2, at 10:30 AM. The talk will be held in person and online. Learn more and register here: https://shorturl.at/QvSxf

Click here to preview the works in the exhibition and learn more about the work here.

Snow-blind at Gallery Stratford Opens January 11, 2024

Snow-blind

January 11 - March 31, 2024

Opening reception: Sunday, January 21, 2 - 4 PM

RSVP to attend the opening reception Here

From left to right: Sarah Kernohan, Remnants 2, 3, 4, watercolour and pastel with acrylic ground on Yupo, 26 x 20 inches, 2022. Image credit: Scott Lee

Gallery Stratford

54 Romeo St. S.

Stratford, ON

N5A 4S9 (map)

(519) 271-5271

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 12 - 5 PM

Gallery Stratford Website

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I'm pleased to share that my exhibition, Snow-blind, which premiered at the Red Head Gallery in February 2023, is travelling to Gallery Stratford. The exhibition runs from Thursday, January 11, through Sunday, March 31, 2024, with a public reception on Sunday, January 21, from 2 - 4 PM. 

The exhibition includes a few new drawings. It opens alongside Robert Buhr: Rural Views and ARTscreen: Farewell by Meg Dunbar. 

For more information about this series, click here.
Please join me in celebrating the opening of this exhibition in person or in spirit. Please feel free to RSVP to attend the opening reception at this link. 

Node at Galerie Plan.d, Düsseldorf - October 21 to November 12, 2023

Node

October 21 - November 12, 2023

Vernissage: October 21, 20h

Featuring: Jim Bourke, Tonia Di Risio, Soheila Esfahani, James Fowler, Grant Heaps, Gillian Iles, Sarah Kernohan, Ian Mackay, David McClyment, Laura Millard, Sara Mozafari-Lorestani, Tazeen Qayyum, Lois Schklar, Pearl Van Geest, and Elaine Whittaker

Sarah Kernohan, Transatlantic Flint (Glace Bay from points unknown), Pigment print on paper, 2023.

Plan.d Produzentengalerie

Doretheenstr. 59

40235 Düsseldorf

Gallery Hours

Saturday 15 - 18 h

Sunday 15 - 18 h

Finissage: November 12, 15h

The term “node” has many interpretations, ranging from math to botany, computer engineering, social media, and medical applications. At its essence are the concepts of intersection, confluence, and divergence, all eminently applicable in this cultural exchange.

Red Head and Plan.d share many similarities. Both collectives seek to provide a forum for expression outside of established commercial gallery systems. Both are situated in major urban centres rooted in contemporary Western culture- hence, intersection and confluence.

However, cultural history and immediate experience, both personal and creative, are likely to differ widely, hence divergence.

The coming together of these comparables and contrasts makes the potential of Node so exciting.

All aspects of Node, both individual works and collaborative projects, will orbit around these ideas.

Femme Visual Arts Projections @ Femme Folks Fest, Waterloo - March 8, 10, 11, 17, 18, 2023

I’m thrilled to be part of Femme Folks Fest again this year as part of their outdoor projections programme, running this weekend and next.

I’ll have this and more projected at a few stories tall, along with the work of Zoey Clare, Debbie Finn, Robin Fox, Sharl Smith, Shelagh Howard and Sherry Czekus. Thanks to the Covert Collective for the invitation!

More details:

A parade of Femme-created Visual Art Projections will light Uptown Waterloo on special evenings during Femme Folks Fest. The show begins at dusk and ends at 10 PM – on March 8, 10, 11, 17, and 18. We invite you to stroll by and take in the best of Femme-created contemporary visual art across Canada.

The COVERT Collective is a gathering of visual art curators from across Canada, sharing the work of artists they love and the work that inspires them. Digitally platformed and branded as curated. The ad hoc group celebrates the artists and work that makes them think.

Laminal Structure #8. Pigment print on Hahnemühle Museum Etching paper, 23.385 x 16.85 inches, 2018.

Snow-blind at The Red Head Gallery - February 1 - 25, 2023

Snow-Blind

February 1 – 25, 2023

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 4, 2023, 1-4 pm

The artist will be in the gallery on February 4, 11, 18 and 25 from 12-5 pm.

The Red Head Gallery

401 Richmond St. W., Suite 115, Toronto ON

Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 12 - 5 PM

Sarah Kernohan, Remnants 2, watercolour and pastel with acrylic ground on yupo, 24 x 18 inches, 2022.

The Red Head Gallery is excited to present Snow-Blind, Sarah Kernohan’s first exhibition as a member of the gallery.

Snow-blind is a series of drawings that respond to an experience of landscape that is ambiguous and difficult to visually apprehend on account of atmospheric and light conditions. They are informed by her experiences visiting alpine terrain in northern Scotland and Alberta, where snowpack has been dwindling over the years due to climate change. 

Her investigations involve hiking, contemplative watching, observational note-taking, sketching, and photography. These are pulled together as a point of reference. This ongoing process combines these experiences, study, and reflection, allowing her to draw connections between the patterns that draw her attention. The drawings come from a process of trying to understand and re-create the disorienting experiences she encountered in these environments. 

Snow, fog, or lack of available light contribute to the difficulty of deciphering space, making it difficult to understand the scale and proximity of these obscured mountains, only seeing how light reflects on snow high up in the hills. Through making these drawings, she attempts to pull these snowy patches closer for inspection through hazy scrims hanging on the surface of each drawing.

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The artist would like to thank the Region of Waterloo Arts Fund and Pat the Dog/City of Waterloo for their financial support in producing this work.