Presented by Katzman Art Projects
Curated by IOTA Studios
Reception: February 14th, 5pm – 7pm
On view: February 14 – March 8, 2025
5431 Doyle St, Halifax, NS
Artists: Carrie Allison, José Andrés Mora, Jordan Bennett, Jerry Evans, Séamus Gallagher, Amy Malbeuf, and Ruth Marsh
Katzman Art Projects is excited to feature Shimmering, an exhibition showcasing seven artists from IOTA Studios, a Halifax-based creative agency and art collective.
This exhibition presents a range of disciplines including beading, printmaking, tufting, and photography. The artists use shape-shifting materials from sculpted caribou hair, to illusionistic digital printing. Thematics of drag and destruction span the works, showing the deterioration of ecosystems, illusions, and memories.
This exhibition offers the viewer a new perspective, as you step into the worlds they propose. Iridescent and metallic, these artworks break through their frames proposing a more enduring experience.
Join us at the opening reception on Valentine’s Day from 5pm – 7pm at Katzman Art Projects (5431 Doyle St, Halifax, NS).
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Pictured: José Andrés Mora, Arrival – Edition of 15, 37”H x 20”W, Inkjet on Hahnemühle Agave Fibre, hand signed, 2022.
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Works on view are also available for sale on IOTA’s online studio gallery. For artwork inquiries, contact iotastudiogallery@gmail.com
Carrie Allison
Exhibiting Artist
Carrie Allison responds to her maternal Nêhiýaw/Cree and Métis ancestry, thinking through intergenerational cultural loss and acts of reclaiming, resilience, resistance, and activism, while also thinking through notions of allyship, kinship and visiting. Her work seeks to reclaim, remember, recreate and celebrate her ancestry through visual discussions often utilizing beading, embroidery, handmade paper, watercolour,... Read More
José Andrés Mora
Exhibiting Artist
José Andrés Mora (he/him) is a Venezuelan-born artist living in Canada. Mora graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Arts and Design (2013, BFA in Interdisciplinary Arts) and the University of Guelph (2020, MFA in Studio Arts). Mora’s work elicits a sense of disconnect deeply tied to his experience as a member of the... Read More
Jordan Bennett
Exhibiting Artist
Bennett's ongoing practice utilizes painting, sculpture, video, installation and sound to explore land, language, the act of visiting, familial histories and challenging colonial perceptions of indigenous histories, stereotypes and presence with a focus on exploring Mi’kmaq and Beothuk visual culture of Ktaqamkuk.
Jerry Evans
Exhibiting Artist
Jerry has been dedicated to the cultural preservation, reclamation, and continued growth of Indigenous communities across Ktaqamkuk (Newfoundland) and the Big Land (Labrador).
Séamus Gallagher
Exhibiting Artist
Seamus Gallagher ( BFA 2019) is a non-binary Halifax-based photo and virtual reality artist whose work primarily focuses on queer narratives and digital culture. Their work has shown in festivals/exhibitions in Switzerland, Los Angeles, and across Canada.
Amy Malbeuf
Exhibiting Artist
Ruth Marsh
Exhibiting Artist
Ruth Marsh's practice employs an absurdist approach which seeks to queer the intersections between DIY culture and science fact/fiction/fabulation/feminism to address absence, memory and healing in bodies and environments.