T, AS IN TIME, E AS IN EVER

February 9 - April 14, 2024

Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Two Person Exhibition at the Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Curated by Vanessa Kwan.

The below statement is available on the Libby Leshgold Gallery's website on the exhibition, available here.

"T, AS IN TIME E, AS IN EVER brings together the work of Hazel Meyer and Atheana Picha. Divergent in media, but aligned in method and approach, their pairing is a proposition to consider our relationship with time differently —to draw from it and reshape it to find what we need. Through performance, installation and drawings, the exhibition illustrates a gathering of knowledge, subjectivities and affinities across time and between generations; the works acknowledge the containers we collectively construct and assemble to hold us.

Hazel Meyer’s WEEPING CONCRETE is a 17-foot scaffold that is both a sculptural installation and a stage. WEEPING CONCRETE addresses subcultural and queer histories, dalliances, resistances and protests that underlie and adorn the built environment. Meyer’s prose-poem, handwritten on Tyvek banners, portrays a people’s history in many leaky and desiring parts, drawing references from archives, image banks and the present day. The exhibition will include two public performances on Thursday, February 15 and Wednesday, February 28.

Atheana Picha presents a series of nine pencil drawings created between 2018 and 2023. Picha works across materials, including weaving, painting, printmaking and carving, and the drawings occupy a unique space in her production. The series brings together depictions of relatives from river to sea–eagle, sturgeon, rockfish, sculpin and frog–and this chorus of voices mirrors Picha’s specific way of traversing time in the absorption of knowledge. Enriched by relationships with mentors, elders and belongings, Picha’s work exemplifies an integrated practice of gathering, learning and making."