Archive: Sandra Brewster

Sandra Brewster in Sediment: The Archive as a Fragmentary Base at Art Museum, UofT

January 17, 2024

Sediment: The Archive as a Fragmentary Base January 17 – March 23, 2024 Art Museum at the University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle Curated by Denise Ryner. Works by: Sandra Brewster, Filipa César, Justine A. Chambers, Michael Fernandes, Louis Henderson, Pamila Matharu, and Krista Belle Stewart _____ Sedimentation is a geological process of settlement […]

Sandra Brewster “Lullaby of Birdland” opens at Artpace San Antonio, TX

November 18, 2023

Sandra Brewster Lullaby of Birdland November 9 – January 7, 2024 Artpace, San Antonio, TX Sandra Brewster exhibits a new body of work created during her artist residency at Artpace, San Antonio, TX. _________ Sandra Brewster joins people and places in her Artpace exhibition, Lullaby of Birdland. Leaning along the gallery walls, you’ll find five distinct […]

Sandra Brewster “Take a Little Trip” at the Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon

May 6, 2023

Sandra Brewster: Take a Little Trip Kenderdine Art Gallery, Sastatoon May 12 – August 25, 2023 Opening Reception: Friday May 12, 6:30 pm Sandra Brewster is a Toronto-based artist who foregrounds Black diasporic experience in her multidisciplinary practice. Brewster focuses on identity and representation, as well as the depiction of movement and gesture, resulting in […]

Sandra Brewster Shortlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Photography Award

March 28, 2023

Sandra Brewster is shortlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Photography Award!! Three Canadian artists have been named to the 2023 Scotiabank Photography Award shortlist. The Award, celebrating its 13th anniversary this year, is Canada’s largest and most prestigious annual peer-nominated and reviewed prize for lens-based art. The Award celebrates the creative vision and accomplishments of some of the country’s […]

Sandra Brewster in Artforum

March 17, 2023

Must See: “Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s – Today” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA Chicago) Curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates “AT THE MIDPOINT of “Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today,” there appears, curiously enough, a Filipino artist: David Medalla, whose signature Cloud Canyons, 1963–2014, oozes wormlike strands of soap bubbles from vertical […]

Sandra Brewster at Musee d’art Rouyn-Noranda

January 26, 2023

Sandra Brewster “Anywhere Everywhere” Musee d’art Rouyn Noranda, Quebec January 27 – April 30, 2023 Daughter of Guyanese parents, Sandra Brewster is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. Her work focuses on the establishment of the Caribbean community in the Canadian metropolis and, more generally, on the representation of Blacks in the public space in North […]

Sandra Brewster and Luca Soldovieri in the “Imperfect Word”

November 23, 2022

Imperfect World An exhibition curated by Magda González–Mora and Yudinela Ortega   Salamander 702 NW 5th Ave, Miami, FL. 33136   December 1st – December 4th, 2022| 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM Opening Reception: December 1st, 2022 | 5:00 PM   Salamander is pleased to announce the opening reception of the exhibition Imperfect World, which will take place […]

Sandra Brewster’s Blur 18

August 16, 2022

Art writer Jordana Moore Saggese recently had an article published in ASAP Journal on Sandra Brewster’s iconic Blur series. “A photograph of a body looms before us. Cut just at the torso we are only able to view the bust of the figure, positioned in a quasi-traditional, three-quarter view. There is no indication of interior […]

Sandra Brewster’s Blur in Arles

August 16, 2022

“Sandra Brewster’s Blur visualizes the migrant experience. Her series of portraits, which range from small photographs to large series, stem from her extensive work with gel transfers. Her images are intentionally blurred, cracked, and distorted: these alterations depict the shifting and mutilation of identity that can occur as a part of the Black and migrant […]

Sandra Brewster at the Arles Festival

August 12, 2022

“This manifesto against sexism and gender inequality resonates with more recent work, such as that of Sandra Brewster, a Canadian artist who produces blurry portraits (the series is called Blur) in very large format, printed imperfectly on the wall. via a gel transfer technique requiring rubbing. These blurry portraits function as metaphors for change and movement, […]