Sylvia Trotter Ewens: Taming Grief: The Banana Trees Stand Vigil in Your Resting Place
The Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery is proud to offer it’s first ever summer artist residency to alumna Sylvia Trotter Ewens (Fine Arts, 2014).聽 Sylvia will utilize the time and space to advance paintings and work on projections in completion of her MFA (Painting) at Concordia University.
She writes, ‘This is a body of work pulling from writings I鈥檝e made on my time caregiving and experiencing loss after my mother鈥檚 passing. In these writings I used the garden as an allegory for these experiences as I tackled the memories of this time through writing and painting as a means to congeal its memory.聽 The exhibition will be made up of moving collages of videos I鈥檝e collected 聽throughout the seasons at Montreal鈥檚 botanical gardens.聽 I am also completing paintings following the same aesthetic heterogeneity based upon a collection of images from the botanical gardens in Honduras and Laval.
I visually portray my mental space as a garden in transition in聽 a condition of disrepair, dulled or frosted, but it is also a psychological space鈥攁 place where my mother and I meet, revisiting memory and rebuilding/repurposing what was lost.
Sylvia Trotter Ewens is a Honduran-Canadian painter based in Tiohti脿:ke/Montreal, Canada. After her DEC in Fine Arts at Dawson,聽 she completed a BFA in Fine Arts: Majoring in Painting and Drawing at Concordia University (2018).聽 聽She is a recipient of the Shirley Reed Graduate Scholarship and Lillian Vineberg Graduate Award.聽 Her work has been exhibited in group and solo shows at the SMCQ鈥檚 S茅rie Hommage exhibition, Galerie Art M没r,聽 Jano Lapin Gallery, Espace Sensible, the Maison de la Culture Notre-Dame-de-Gr芒ce, Monkland, AVE Gallery, and ARTCH.
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