CBC Windsor wants you to meet three local artists making an impact on the local art scene.
Talysha Bujold-Abu, Jude Abu Zaineh and Julie Hall are all being featured at the Art Windsor Essex gallery with exhibitions that are currently or soon-to-be open to the public.
Meet Talysha Bujold-Abu
Bujold-Abu is the curator behind the exhibit Marcel Dzama: Illustration and Other Worlds. It features the work of Dzama with responses by Bujold-Abu through murals painted on the walls.
She pulls on his surrealist symbolism and responds in kind.
Bujold-Abu describes herself as an artist that puts silliness and fun at the forefront of her work.
WATCH l Bujold-Abu gives us a tour of Illustration and Other Worlds:
Curator and artist Talysha Bujold-Abu gives us a tour of Marcel Dzama: Illustration and Other Worlds, which features murals she painted on the walls of Art Windsor-Essex in response to Dzama’s work.
Illustration and Other Worlds will be on display at the gallery until Sept. 11, 2022.
Meet Jude Abu Zaineh
Palestinian-Canadian artist Jude Abu Zaineh lives in Troy, New York, but she considers Windsor her home away from home.
Her latest exhibit In the Presence of Absence is a personal look at her relationship with her roots, highlighting the stories of others with similar experiences as well.
Featuring family photographs, bio art and a mural, her latest installation is her very first curated solo museum exhibition.
WATCH l Abu Zaineh describes why her latest work is so personal:
Palestinian-Canadian artist Jude Abu Zaineh describes her latest exhibition at Art Windsor-Essex and shares why it’s so special it’s taking place in Windsor.
In the Presence of Absence will be on display at the gallery until Sept. 11, 2022.
Meet Julie Hall
Julie Hall is the artist and horticulturist behind the Depends on the Light installation coming soon to the Art Windsor-Essex gallery.
Located on the gallery’s green roof terrace, it features native perennial plants like butterfly milkweed and prairie smoke with garden sculptures woven in throughout the terrace. Still a work-in-progress, the terrace will also feature colourful flags surrounding the garden, as an invitation to bring Windsorites into the space. The roof terrace is a certified Monarch waystation to support a healthy population of Monarch butterflies.
The goal of the exhibit is to signal the responsibilities landowner have to restore and participate in the regional ecosystem.
WATCH l Julie Hall gives us a preview of her latest exhibit where art meets nature:
Artist and horticulturist Julie Hall gives us a sneak preview of her new project on the Green Roof Terrace of the AWE where art meets nature.
Hall’s work is expected to be completed and open to the public starting as early as this week.
