Booth #C53
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Trotter&Sholer is delighted to bring a group presentation featuring artwork by five Canadian artists at Booth C53 for Art Toronto 2025. As we return to Art Toronto for the third consecutive year we are thrilled to show work by five talented Canadian women. Jannick Deslauriers, Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka, Jessica Frances Grégoire Lancaster, Jaspal Birdi, and Nicotye Samayualie exemplify the diversity of the Canadian art scene and present unique points of view using distinct and varied approaches and materials. Our booth is a celebration of the influential and inspired work of these five women.
Trotter&Sholer is a Canadian-owned contemporary gallery, based in New York City. We recently celebrated our five year anniversary and over the past five years we have mounted more than 30 exhibitions and participated in several fairs.
Jannick Deslauriers is a Montreal based sculptor who specializes in 3-dimensional multi-media works that incorporate innovative materials such as silk, aluminum, and mesh. Her works explore the gap between our physical world and a more surreal one, taking everyday objects and structures and re-imagining them. Her work evokes both presence and absence and presents everyday objects in an almost uncanny way.
Jessica Frances Grégoire Lancaster creates a tromp l’oiel effect with oil paint applied directly to the underside of a pane of glass. With her unique method of painting in reverse, Lancaster captures nostalgia and wistfulness in her emotive compositions. Lancaster’s background as a photographer and collector of vernacular photos inform her process.
Jaspal Birdi uses a laser-printer she’s modified to print distorted, unique, one-of-one images of her own every-day photography. She then blows up and photo-transfers these images by hand onto metallic emergency blankets. Birdi’s final interventions with oil paint explores color and boundaries. These subtle additions complete her works which explore the transitional state of memory and experience.
Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka works with light-weight, durable hand-made Japanese paper. Through a variety of print-making processes, Hantanaka creates works that explore the human mind, the natural world, and the connection between the two. Her practice is rooted in generational relationships with land she explored first-hand in locations like Kinngait, NU, Ino, Japan and cities such as Toronto and New York. These works offer us a glimpse into both physical and psychological landscapes.
Nicotye Samayualie primarily works with coloured pencil on paper. She is from Kinngait, Nunavut and is the daughter of artist Kudluajuk Ashoona and granddaughter of artist Keeleemeeoomee Samayualie. Many of her drawings depict vast Arctic landscapes, occasionally drawing attention to the mistreatment of the land through the inclusion of items like littered cigarette butts. This series of Samayualie’s work provides an important reflection of land in a time of climate crisis.
