Upcoming Exhibitions & Events


FALL 2025

LiminalEnergyZeroSignalStillDevilObject

Natasha Beaudoin, Eric Cameron, Sebastian Evans, Jennifer Hamilton, Moira Hayes, Cassie Packham, Emelie Robertson

Exhibition: September 4 – September 28, 2025
Reception: Saturday, September 27 from 2-4PM
artLAB Gallery, JLVAC

We occupy an entangled circuitry of institutional connections and nodes, a shared bandwidth, where disparate practices hum, flicker and interfere.

At the midpoint of their academic journey, candidates of the 2026 Master of Fine Arts program come together to explore themes and mediums ranging from the natural and the haunted to painting and video. This exhibition is not curated. It is not a thesis, nor a resolution. Each work in this show is a signal: sometimes clear, sometimes scrambled. Together they build a constellation of transmissions that do not seek to align but rather to co-exist. The artists have chosen not to resolve their differences, but to amplify the static between them.

Instead of a curated narrative, this exhibition offers a linkage, a connective tissue made of tension, refusal and resonance. The artists invite viewers to tune in, sit with the noise, and find meaning in the gaps.

 

Human Impressions: Traces from the Western Print Archives

Exhibition: September 4 – September 28, 2025
Reception: Saturday, September 27 from 2-4PM
Cohen Commons, JLVAC

Curated by Jennifer Hamilton 

portrait prints
Image(s): Laura Payne, N. Schlesak and Dan Vogel

The multiple exists to disseminate—and from that, archives emerge. This exhibition features a selection from the Department of Visual Art’s print collection at Western University, showcasing work completed over the past 50 years. These alumni artworks highlight the human experience embedded within the technical processes of printmaking. The human form is embodied within these selected works, showing a historical collaboration between machines and the individual.

This exhibition attempts to challenge critiques of human authenticity within a reproduction while highlighting a printshop’s ability to create a community within any arts institution. The prints chosen for this exhibition include examples from each decade with a varied selection of printmaking, including relief print, intaglio, lithography and serigraphy.