Artist Archive
Blur Art Gallery of Ontario
September 14, 2019
“In her Blur series, Sandra Brewster explores layered experiences of identity — ones that may bridge relationships to Canada and elsewhere, as well as to the present and the past. The artist directs her subjects to move while she takes their picture. Then, using a gel medium, she transfers her image to a new surface, […]
2019 | Work
Token | Contemporary Ongoing
September 14, 2019
“In Token | Contemporary Ongoing, Sandra Brewster re-presents objects selected and transported from various Caribbean geographies and temporalities, projecting them beyond the private and intimate spaces of their belonging. These objects are belongings, possessions. The deliberate and deliberated presence of these object-images bears witness to our movements through time and space. The objects themselves function […]
2019 | Work
It’s all a blur… Georgia Scherman Projects
September 14, 2019
It’s all a blur… is a series of gestural portraits made with photo-based gel transfers. Brewster uses the medium as a metaphor for movement or change from one place to another, specifically in reference to the migration of her parents and their peers who left Guyana for Toronto in the late 1960s. Inspired by the […]
2019 | Work
A Trace | Evidence of time past
May 2, 2017
A Trace | Evidence of time past, Masters of Visual Studies thesis, Art Museum, University of Toronto, March 2017. Metaphor, materiality, and storytelling is used to reflect on the transition of home, using my family’s migration from Guyana to Toronto as inspiration. Heirloom. a jar containing fruits and currents soaked in rum and wine in […]
2017 | Work
Untitled Smiths
January 11, 2015
Untitled Smiths 2011- Untitled (Smiths), mixed media on wood, 48x60in., 2011 Untitled (Plain Black), mixed media on wood, 48x60in., 2011-12 Untitled (Plain Black 2), mixed media on wood, 18x48in., 2012 Untitled (Whiteout), mixed media on wood, 48x48in., 2014
2015 | Work
Smith
January 11, 2015
SMITH 2009 The surname Smith takes up the largest section of a Western telephone directory. Its volume conjures up ideas of sameness, commonality and anonymity as there are so many. In the series I am mocking the notion of a monolithic Black community – of course not all Smiths are related, or look or act […]
2015 | Work
Mohammeds at Alice Yard – Final Exhibition
April 15, 2013
Exhibition and talk… On April 4th I gave a talk and exhibited the work I produced during my time at Alice Yard. The following images show the exhibition evenings April 4th and 5th. Some pictures were taken by Rodell Warner. Panels that were first exhibited during Verse to Converse hung at the entrance. […]
2013 | Uncategorized
Final days in Port of Spain
April 14, 2013
Mohammeds walking the wall… It has been a week since I returned to Toronto from spending over 2 months at Alice Yard in Trinidad and Tobago. The images below are of work that I completed while there that contributed to the final installation on April 4th. A mixed media mural of Mohammeds, acrylic, china marker […]
2013 | Uncategorized
Holy Name Convent Annual Art Exhibition • Port of Spain
March 18, 2013
Form 5 and Form 6 students showing their talents The reception for the annual Holy Name Convent art exhibition was on March 18. The students created amazing work that commented on beauty, the environment, fantasy and posible struggles that could be faced as a young woman. They experimented with materials and took some risks. I […]