WHITElight: absence.emergence.possibility
White light is the combination of all wavelengths of light and appears to the human eye as the colour white.
Submission Period: Sept 26th to Oct 24 (results Oct 27)
Opening Gala: November 8, 2-4 pm
Exhibition Dates: November 7 to December 21
Gallery Hours: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 11 – 4 pm
Curatorial Team: Memet Burnett
Juror: Kevin Kelliher
Workshop: Playing Abstractly.
This WHITElight exhibition book is now available for purchase. It contains all the work from the exhibition, as well as introductions from the curator and jurors. It is an opportunity to take the exhibition home with you. The book is a 56-page, 15.24 by 22.56 cm, perfect-bound paperback. Copies of the book are held in Library and Archives Canada.
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The book features the work of the following artists: Kevin Keliher, Christa Brenan, Lorraine Douglas, Tina Lloyd, Phyllis Schwartz, Barbara McCaffrey, Angela Menzies, Sheryl Parsons, Mary Wulff, Elaine L Hughes, Edward Peck, Monica Reekie, Sally Chupick, Alannah MacPhail, Memet Burnett, Heather Hess, Mary Wulff, Joan Glover, Kimberley Zutz, Dyan Marie, Nancy Letkeman, Louise Oborne, Jenna Sonoski, Nell Gadd, Katherine Hutton, David Good, Michelle Sirois Silver, Cindy McMath, Anna Mar, Debra Stapleton, MaryLou Wakefield, Memet Burnett, Nicola Turner, John McFetrick, Lydia Toorenburgh, and Dl Clay.
The WHITElight show invited artists to put the colour white under the light. To look at white not only as an inclusive space on the colour spectrum, but also as a metaphor, material, and mood. We looked for works that revealed through restraint, found beauty in simplicity, truth in minimalism, and hope in brightness. We found artworks that spoke in whispers rather than shouts, artworks that evoked:
Beginnings. Absence. Calm. Quiet. Innocence. Perfection. Simplicity. Ease. Emergence. Restoration. Tranquility. Otherworldliness. Clarity. Stillness. Reflection. Possibility. Cleanliness. Antisepsis. Sparseness. Coldness. Emptiness. Aging. Endings.
We asked artists to probe the paradox of white: its ability to both conceal and reveal, its associations with both life and sterility, birth and erasure, light and death, calm and chaos. The WHITElight show is be a meditation on what lies veiled beneath the surface—and the blank slate of what is yet to come. Join us as we immerse ourselves in a world stripped to essentials in this season of excess.