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♡ Embodied Knowledge 2023 ♡

♡ Summer Lounge International Art Show 2022 ♡

https://courttree.com/Summer-Lounge

July 23rd – Sept 10th, 2022

Court Tree Collective proudly presents Summer Lounge. An international group exhibition featuring some of our current favorite artists. This exhibition will feature over 100 works from 30 different artists. This enormous salon style layout is intended for viewers to spend time with the art. 

♡ Grad Show Exhibition 2022 at the University of Ottawa ♡

Medium: acrylic / oil / yarn & punch needle
Artist statement : A collection of works that represents my current state of being, tapping into aplace of inner confidence that hibernates and awakes when it pleases. I want to depict a trance-like vivid energy with the aim of escaping the current reality and connecting with the free-spirited inner child within. I also want to create a visual harmony and balance between the audience and my work devoid of gloom.

♡ Pique Spring Edition 2022 ♡

A vivid coalition by Mesoma Onyeagba

https://thisispique.com/mesoma-onyeagba

An installation featuring the vibrant abstract fiber works of local artist Mesoma Onyeagba, inspired by her love of colour, patterns, and Nigerian culture.

♡ People Patterns Exhibition 2022 ♡

PEOPLE PATTERNS SHOW STATEMENT

People Patterns is an activation of space through bursting colourful multi-media paintings. As artists, we wish to show our distinct approaches to similar ideas of abstraction, colour, representation, pattern, and community. As BIPOC it is easy to be pinned down to broader styles, narratives, or assumptions in regards to our work. What we wish is to not be bound to one medium, idea, or interpretation. While containing roots from places of cultural inspiration, these works are ultimately explorations of identity and individuality.

Mesoma Onyeagba:

My paintings explore the use of colours to create beauty in abstraction alongside incorporating my African background. Colours have always been important in my life and I make good use of it in a visually pleasing way hoping to somehow spread positivity to the viewer of my paintings or any creative medium I choose to explore. I am mostly inspired by my Nigerian culture, fashion, photography and anything that encourages my imagination. I am interested in the representation of black women in my paintings, textiles, fabrics and whatever that would draw my attention in the future. I am very fluid in my art journey. In addition to my art practice, I read about people and how the mind works on a daily basis, including readings about psychology, socionics, articles and eBooks that help me discover my mind as a kind of self-therapy which plays a role consciously and unconsciously with my creative process. I believe I am still a work in progress and hope to improve my life’s direction.

Aishah Vakily:

I am a multimedia artist from Cornwall, Ontario who works primarily with paint and fabric, while occasionally venturing into the realm of installation. Based on my experience as a mixed Iranian-American Muslim woman living in the West, my work explores and critiques representations of Middle Eastern and Muslim people by challenging the ways in which dialogue is created about us, delving into themes of a multi-faceted gaze, the perceived “Foreign Other”, hierarchies of aesthetic, as well as the nuances of community representation from multiple angles. As a hijabi, fabric plays a large part in my life, and so it comes to the forefront of many of my art pieces as a way of expressing identity. An important angle of analysis lies in what you as a viewer can and cannot see, with cloth and other methods or covering as significant motifs. The question I would like to pose in my artistic practice is such: “In both literal and broad senses, who are you in relation to this work?”.

♡ Inspire The Next Live Show 2022 ♡

What is the show about?

This show was designed to give youth a platform to tell their stories in the hopes of inspiring other youth! We will have youth guests on to talk about their ventures and why they got into it. . All from Ottawa.

Instagram : @Faithmumba05 left, @artbymesoma middle and @nejenje_ right