Opening
Thursday, May 22, 2025
6 to 9 pm

Artist talks in the gallery:
Andrea Carlson and Tanya Lukin Linklater
Friday, May 23, 2025, starting at 3:30 pm

Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, Stanley Inum, Fordy Inum, and Enoch Lun with translator Kireni Imwe Jean Sparks-Ngenge
Saturday, May 24, 2025, starting at 2 pm

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May 23 to August 2, 2025

Andrea Carlson:
A Painting is a Coin / Tisigan aawi zhoonyaa-waabik

Triangle gallery

A Painting is a Coin brings together recent works by Andrea Carlson, building on concerns that have animated her more than two-decade long practice. The exhibition’s title is a play on the poem The Sonnet, 1880, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti that includes the line “A Sonnet is a coin: its face reveals/The soul,—its converse, to what Power ’tis due…”. Here, it suggests a binary, two sides: one what is painted, the other the related power/system/memory. Carlson draws on many references for her work, from iconic sites to personal tributes; in doing so, she forms a matrix, flipping the expected order and reorienting it towards new possibilities.

Carlson’s works have layers upon layers. Landscape, land stacked, language, deep time, ancestral knowledge, cinema, memorials, fossils, future visions, stories, references, refusal. These subjects populate her paintings, drawings, films, prints, and sculptures. Her work has many points of entry, prismatically refracting outward, reframing the world beyond their borders.

Landscape is important to many of the works, including Carlson’s paintings that stretch across multiple sheets of watercolour paper. These full compositions are counterpoints to the historic use of “empty” landscape paintings to bolster colonial pursuits. The most recent work in the exhibition, Low-Relief Mound, 2025, a sculptural installation commissioned by The Goldfarb Gallery, continues a series based on effigy mounds, an ongoing source of inspiration for her work.

For more information, please find exhibition essay here.

Tisigan aawi zhoonyaa-waabik biidoonan nomya nokiiwinan nji-sa Andrea Carlson, Naabkinged nji-sa gegoo gaa-maadesk ooshme niizhing mdaaswi-biboon doo-nokiiiwn. Maanda zhinoomaagewin ezhi-nooziwinkaadek aawan wiidookidaadiwin ginjigan The Sonnet, 1880, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti bekish bezhaakibiigan “A Sonnet aawi zhoonaa-waabik: dengweng zhinoomaagemgad/ eminidoowong,-gegoo ebkaanak, piinash mshkooziiwin ‘nendwendaagok…”. Mompii, wiidimaagemgwad gegoo enaasaabsek, niizhing nikeyaa, ni-ii dash; bezhig tisgaazo, gewii dash bezhig ezhi-naasaap sek mshkooziiwin/nendimoowin. Carlson waa-wiindimaagenan noo’ooj win dinkiiwinan, nji-sa gegoo gchi’ii piinash gegoo win nji mekowendang, pii dash zhichiged, mii-bitek gegoo, aaboodsidood wi-egwekwendaagok miiniwaa ni-aanjtood gegoo nikeyaa shki’ii.

Carlson dinkiiwin temgwad gegoo ezhi-bebkaansek, Aki-enaamdakweng, ani-e-kosing, nowewin, piichaawin, mewzha kendaasowin, mzinaateschigewin, mkwendimoowin, sinii-kaajiganan, niigan naabiwin, dibaajimoowinan, ndikenjigewinan, gegoo ebigidnigaadesnook. Gonda dash ooshme zhinoomaagegadoon doo-tisiganan, doo-mzinbiigewinan, mzinaateschiganan, mzinchiganak, miiniwaa mziniiyak. Dinkiiwin niibina temgad ge-nji-biindigepa waya, gegoo nikeyaa ezaagijisek, ezhi-waabnjigaadek mzowe aki gegoo tesnok ngaabijigewin.

Eko-naabing gchi-piitendaagwad nji-sa nindan nokiiwinan, bekish Carlson doo-tisiganan ezhi-tkamaashinowaad noo’ooj nikeyaa zhiiginoong nji-sa Enbiishwong tisiganan mzinigan. Gonda dash mzinchiganak aawiwag nji-sa mewzha enkaazong gegoo “Etesinok” eko-naabing tisiganag nji-sa gegoo shki’ii gaa-biijigaadek. Nongo dash bjiinak gaa-teg nokiiwin zhinda enji-zhinoomaading, E-dibasaak gegoo ekosing, 2025, mzin’nii naakmichigan gaa-zhitood maaba Goldfarb Gallery, ni-aabjise zhinoomaagewin nikeyaa ezhinaagok aki-e-ni-kosing, pane geni-tek gishkiwesiiwin ezhi-nokiid.