Thursday, December 12, 2024, at 6 to 7:30 pm
An Artist Talk by Jenine Marsh
Onsite at The Goldfarb Gallery
in collaboration with the Department of Visual Arts and Art History
A public artist talk by Jenine Marsh as part of our current group exhibition Manual Assembly: Fragments of a Whole, hosted as a co-presentation with York University’s 2024–25 Sculpture Talk Lecture Series.
Marsh is a Toronto-based artist who uses sculpture and installation to explore themes of agency, mortality, and value. The artist manipulates coins as well as other paraphernalia of exchange and contact, such as casts of hands, purses and flowers, through serialized processes of destruction and transformation to cultivate illicit and intimate responses to the shared conditions of end-stage capitalism. Marsh’s most recent work Fountain for the Thirteenth Hour, an ambitious sculptural installation commissioned by The Goldfarb Gallery is currently on view. She has exhibited her sculptural and installation work in Canadian galleries such as Cooper Cole, The Goldfarb Gallery, and Franz Kaka, Toronto; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver; and Joe Project and Centre CLARK, Montreal. She has also exhibited in international galleries including Ensemble, New York; Prairie, Chicago; Ashley, Berlin; Gianni Manhattan, Vienna; Union Pacific, London; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; OSL Contemporary, Oslo; Entrée Gallery, Bergen; and Lulu, Mexico City. She has served as artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, at AiR Bergen at USF Verftet, Bergen; La Datcha, Berlin; Rupert, Vilnius; and Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. She received her BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts in 2007 and her MFA from the University of Guelph in 2013. Marsh lives and works in Toronto, Canada.
The Sculpture Talk Lecture Series brings contemporary artists to York University to discuss their recent projects, working methodologies, and materialities. Presented by the Department of Visual Arts and Art History in the School of the Arts, Performance, Media & Design, this series is made possible through the generous sponsorship of the LL Odette Foundation. The Sculpture Talk Lecture Series is sponsored by the LL Odette Foundation.

This talk is part of the public programming for Manual Assembly: Fragments of a Whole, the first group exhibition to be presented in The Goldfarb Gallery, on view from November 12 to December 21, 2024. Manual Assembly features nine artists who use accumulation and assemblage as the basis for the construction of both form and meaning, entwining material experimentation with personal experiences, economic histories, and ecological impact. This cogent and striking group exhibition includes work by El Anatsui, Kevin Beasley, Wally Dion, Anthony Douglas Cooper, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, Kelly Jazvac, Jenine Marsh, and Rosie Lee Tompkins, and is curated by Lillian O’Brien Davis, curator of collections and contemporary art engagement, and Jenifer Papararo, director/curator.