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North Star examines how the landscape is an integral and tangled marker of Canadian Contemporary Art and our symbolic identity. This exhibition is a powerful declaration of how emerging Canadian artists understand their place in our sovereign country.
We are pleased to present artworks from "The Legend of the Palestinian Sasquatch". This new body of work was first presented at Centre Clark in Montréal from October 31, 2024 – December 7, 2024.
Amanda Boulos (she/her) is a visual artist and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Boulos engages with fragmented national narratives from Palestine, Lebanon, and Canada to explore how oral histories can morph into the future of the Palestinian diaspora or shattat. She received her MFA from the University of Guelph and her BFA from York University. Boulos has exhibited in Toronto, New York, Montréal, and Halifax. She is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at OCAD University, a Toronto project space the plumb member, and a Toronto Palestine Film Festival programmer.
Chris Glabb (b. 2000) is an emerging Métis artist who received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Ottawa. Having shown in group exhibitions nationally and internationally, his first solo exhibition is set to open in May 2025.
His work, rooted in printmaking and painting, examines cultural capital—how references andimages function as currency that grants access, legitimacy, and belonging. Through irony and lowbrow referentiality, Chris aims to contextualize existing imagery to critique hierarchy andnavigate intersectional Queerness and Indigenous identities.
Mélanie Myers lives and works in Hull (Gatineau), where she teaches sculpture at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO). She holds a master’s degree in visual arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2013) and a bachelor’s degree in art and design from UQO (2008). She has had solo exhibitions at L’Écart in Rouyn-Noranda (2018), the UQO Gallery in Gatineau (2017), and the Karsh-Masson Gallery in Ottawa (2017), and her work has been featured in group exhibitions across Canada, notably at the Division Gallery in Toronto (2019), Gallery 17/18 in Ottawa (2019), SAW Video in Ottawa (2018), the Forest City Gallery in London (2016), and the Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax (2013).
David’s paintings over the past few years come from ideas and images that arise from the quiet mental states achieved after several days of walking alone on long backpacking trips. The constants in his paintings are a love of light and the play of spatial illusion
.David Kaarsemaker holds a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from the University of Ottawa. He was a finalist in the 2017 RBC Painting Competition and his work is included in the collections of Global Affairs Canada, the City of Ottawa, the City of St John’s, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, and the Newfoundland Provincial Art Bank.
