With a focus on painting, sculpture, printmaking and installation, Canada-based artist Braxton Garneau's practice is rooted in materiality, costuming, and transformation. Working in betwen cultures, Garneau combines visual influences from classical and contemporary forms with material investigations to consider cultural, social, and historical implications. Garneau is interested in what he refers to as "material honesty", or the idea that the use of living matter can imbue work with their essence and power. Exploring and exploiting the physical qualities of materials, Garneau works with harvested and hand-processed mediums including asphalt, raffia, cotton, linen, sugarcane pulp, bones, and shells. Garneau's work investigates transformation through both natural cycles and the inherent human tendency for adornment, costuming, and masquerade. Connecting materials, customs, and clothing, he explores the ability of the natural world, and of the people in it, to adapt and transmute to whatever circumstances they may find themselves in.

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 20, 4-7pm