I Carry You With Me by Alexandrya Eaton


August 11 – September 30

Launch: Friday, August 11, 6:00pm

End: Saturday, September 30

Artist Talk: Friday, September 22, 7:00pm

AX is pleased to welcome New Brunswick artist, Alexandrya Eaton. Eaton combines her love of colour with material and process exploration in I Carry You with Me, a series of mixed media works involving painting and textiles. Eaton’s sculptural paintings demonstrate how traditional textile practices can be integrated into a painting practice as a bodily form of memory, reaffirming matrilineal connections through making.

Join us on Friday, August 11 at 6:00 p.m. for the exhibition launch. There will be an artist talk on Friday September 22 at 7:00pm. 


About the Artist

Alexandrya Eaton is a contemporary Canadian visual artist whose practice includes painting, textiles, sculpture, and weaving. Eaton’s current research examines how fabric manipulations can be incorporated into painting practice, and how the canvas, a woven material, accepts these folds and stitches, conceptually exploring layers and connections of material and memory.

In a practice spanning over thirty years, Eaton has had close to fifty solo exhibitions, participated in numerous group exhibitions, and her work can be found in many private and public collections.

In addition to two solo exhibitions this year, Eaton’s work will be part of the exhibition, Dissident Bodies, curated by Alisa Arsenault, looking at how parenting influences creative practice, at the Owens Art Gallery, in Sackville, as well as group exhibitions in Vancouver, British Columbia, and New York, New York, USA.

For the past three decades, Eaton has maintained a steadfast commitment to studio practice, a rigorous exhibition schedule, and a longstanding commitment to community involvement. Eaton is currently completing a Master of Fine Art through Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Eaton’s research demonstrates how traditional textile practices can be integrated into a painting practice as a bodily form of memory, reaffirming matrilineal connections through making.


Acknowledgements

Thanks to the NB Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture for supporting this exhibition. This project is also funded in part by the Government of Canada.

 


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