Pouch Cove Foundation Residency

I am thrilled to be back on the east coast to complete a residency at the Pouch Cove Foundation in Pouch Cove, NL. I am stationed here for the entirety of August, and I am so grateful for the time and space to focus on my work. 

The residency is in an old elementary school, with classrooms converted into live-work studios. The foundation is also the home of the James Baird Gallery. While here, I am developing work for my upcoming exhibition at the Red Head Gallery in Toronto (February 2023). Atlantic Canada—specifically Cape Breton—has become a second home for me over the years, and this is my second trip to Newfoundland. I am excited to explore and see how that space finds its way into my work. I will post occasional updates on Instagram if you are keen to follow what I'm up to. 

Downtown Kitchener Art Walk

Sarah Kernohan, Dissipate 41 installed as a billboard as part of the DTK BIA Art Walk (2022 - 2024) in Halls Lane in Kitchener,r Ontario.

I am pleased to share that I am part of this year's DTK (Downtown Kitchener) Art Walk, co-presented by the Downtown Kitchener BIA and the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. The walk includes permanent public artworks, murals and billboards throughout the downtown core.

My piece is on Hall's Lane (between King and Charles Streets, at the back of the Rich Uncle Tavern), nearby wonderful neighbours, including Jessi McConnell, Melissa Doherty, Chris Austin, Logan MacDonald, Brubey Hu, Tee Kundu, and others. The project will be up until the spring of 2024.

You can find the piece at this location (map). Visit this link to get a map and copy of the digital publication, which includes information about all of the work in the Art Walk.

Special thanks to Shirley Madill, Darryn Doull, and Steve Lavigne at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery for including my work in this project, Stefanie Golling at the DTK Bia for their project management, and Westmount Signs for doing such a fantastic job with print production and project installation.

Please send me a photo if you visit the piece in person!

The Red Head Gallery

I am proud to share that I am a new member of The Red Head Gallery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Established in 1990, it is Toronto's most enduring collectively-run gallery. I am thrilled to join the collective. My first exhibition with the gallery will be in January 2023.

Learn more about the gallery, other collective artists, and upcoming exhibitions, at The Red Head Gallery website.

Artwork auction in support of Gallery Stratford

Sarah Kernohan, Lapping 2, graphite and acrylic ground on yupo⁠, 14 x 11 inches, ⁠2019.

I have donated work to Gallery Stratford’s 2021 Gala at the Gallery Fundraiser. I had my first exhibition at a public art gallery with them back in 2009 with It All Begins with a Thought (with Gareth Lichty and Jenal Dolson, curated by Jennifer Rudder), and again in Works Selected: Clyne, Johnston, Kernohan, Lexier, MacFarlane and Urban (curated by Ron Shuebrook.) ⁠⁠

The proceeds of the fundraiser will support the gallery's education and exhibition programming.

You can bid on this and some other fabulous work here until January 16, 2022.

The Artist As Curator at 2gallery

Sarah Kernohan. Remnants. Graphite and acrylic ground on mylar, 30 x 22 inches, 2021.

August 7 - August 30, 2021

2gallery

256 Main St. W.

Picton, ON K0K 2T0

613-920-2000

2gallery.ca

Niloufar Salimi. Treed. Ink and graphite on Mulberry paper. 30 x 22. inches, 2021.

2gallery has invited nine 2gallery artists whose work they would choose to hang beside their own.

I reached out to Niloufar Salimi to collaborate. I am grateful that she generously agreed to participate and for the opportunity to exhibit alongside her.

We met and studied at OCAD, memorably, in an advanced drawing class with Ed Pien in 2007. We reconnected again after completing our graduate work. We each value gentle perception and delicate rendering as we build our work. While drawing, we are working sensitively, letting our materials and our subject matter guide the way we work. This exhibition was an opportunity for us to build work alongside one another again in another context.

The exhibition also features work by:

Edd Baptista & Andrew F. Ross

Hugo Cantin & Sebastien Cliche

Lindsay Chambers & Huy Lam

Beth James & Samuel Choisy

Erik Mohr & Jürgen Mohr

Moira Ness & Kale Vandenbroek

Paul Roorda & Melissa Doherty

Kate Taylor & Claire Desjardins