Spring Exhibitions Opening Night

Please join us on Friday March 29 from 7 PM - 10 PM for the opening reception of TRUCK Contemporary Art's Spring Exhibition Programs—through this window is a home by Harvey Nichol and Michaela Bridgemohan and Pilot Astronauts by Raeann Kit-Yee Cheung!

Admission is free and all are welcome!

through this window is a home

Harvey Nichol and Michaela Bridgemohan (MAIN SPACE Gallery)

Originally crafted by incarcerated Filipina women and later associated with political activist Huey Newton founder of the Black Panther Party through this window is a home considers the history and intertwined legacies of the Peacock Chair exploring themes of invisible labour and cultural erasure that collide with conflicting forms of resistance and privilege.

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HARVEY NICHOL was born in the Tondo District Metro Manila and is currently a Calgary based artist. His work embodies elements of various art movements such as neo-expressionism social-realism and street art. Harvey dabbles in different mediums of art-making practices such as painting sculptures streetwear design and storytelling. He is inspired by his life experiences as an immigrant becoming a homeless youth and living through the foster system. He wants to channel this through visual autoethnography with elements inspired by his culture's folklore and today's socio-political climate.

MICHAELA BRIDGEMOHAN is an interdisciplinary artist of Jamaican and Australian descent who grew up in Mohkinstsis also known as Calgary but now gratefully resides on Syilx territory Kelowna BC. She is a recent MFA candidate from the University of British Columbia – Okanagan and received her BFA in Drawing (with Distinction) from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2017. Bridgemohan's artistic research currently engages with her Caribbean heritage through the folk-figure duppy to address contemporary conversations surrounding Afro-Gothic hauntology relationality and hybridity. She uses methods of cultural practices such as cooking and personal grooming to explore contemporary sculpture drawing and textile making.

Pilot Astronauts

Raeann Kit-Yee Cheung (PARKADE Project Space)

Between the 1970s and 1990s the term “astronaut families” was popularized in Hong Kong and Taiwan referring to family arrangements in Asia where the fathers remained in their home country to work while the mothers migrated to the west with their children for stability opportunities living experiences and education. With the 50th anniversary of International Women’s Year approaching Pilot Astronauts celebrates the legacies of early astronaut mothers their strength and their humanity.

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Born in Hong Kong and raised in Canada RAEANN KIT-YEE CHEUNG is a photographer who leans on a dual heritage to create work that is both personal and universal. Having immigrated almost five decades ago Raeann is resolved in feeling neither Chinese nor Canadian but rather someone who embodies a rich ambiguity that confronts a melded identity. She holds a MA in contemporary photography from Falmouth University where she began her project WE ARE IMMIGRANTS - The Hidden Hardships and Legacy of Early Chinese Canadian Immigrants. Today her work continues to explore the diasporic context. Raeann resides in the traditional territories of Treaty 7 in Southern Alberta.

TRUCK CONTEMPORARY ART is a non-profit artist resource centre run by a small team of dedicated artists working to support the creation and public presentation of contemporary art. Our goal is to engage our community in critical discourse surrounding contemporary art and to bring together and support creative individuals who share aspirations of increasing access to art for all. We endeavour to connect artists to the resources they need to create exhibit and share their work. All of TRUCK’s programs are free and open to the public.

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