FREDERICTON.- The Beaverbrook Art Gallery announces a slate of new exhibitions.

In addition to the previously-announced Studio Watch exhibition, three new exhibitions, Percy Sacobie – Wolastoqiyik Storyteller, Carl Beam: One Who is Brave-Hearted, and Karen Stentaford – The Process of Time, are currently on view for visitors to enjoy. An additional exhibition, Contemporary Printmakers of New Brunswick – I, will be installed in the coming weeks.

Local artist Percy Sacobie is a multidisciplinary artist of the St. Mary’s First Nation, whose paintings are characterised by their bright colours and bold lines. His works in the exhibition Wolastoqiyik Storyteller are both autobiographical and historical, and respond to themes of nature, community, and storytelling. The exhibition is presented with support from St. Mary’s Wolastoqiyik.

“Percy’s work speaks to the notion of reinventing what it means to be Wolastoqiyik in our own terms,” says exhibition curator, Emma Hassencahl-Perley. “His art helps us to understand the importance of connection to land, to all other forms of life, and to ourselves.”

Also curated by Emma Hassencahl-Perley, Carl Beam: One Who is Brave-Hearted, features selections of work from the Beaverbrook’s permanent collection. Ojibwa artist Carl Beam was a critical figure in recent First Nations art in Canada, and he was the first artist of Indigenous ancestry to have works purchased by the National Gallery of Canada as contemporary art. He preferred modern techniques such as prints and photo-transfers to traditional methods, and would use these techniques to juxtapose symbols of personal significance with historical images. Of particular note the landmark Columbus Suite series by Carl Beam will be on display as part of this exhibition.

Karen Stentaford is an artist and educator living in Sackville, NB where she is the photography technician and lecturer at Mount Allison University’s Fine Arts department. Karen Stentaford – The Process of Time, is a survey exhibition presenting photographs from the past decade of Stentaford’s work – images that often employ alternative processes such as the vintage wet-plate collodion process. Her work investigates ideas of place, absence, and memory, and is influenced by the Newfoundland landscape of her childhood.

“The title of this exhibition, The Process of Time, is a perfectly apt one,” says John Leroux, the Gallery’s Manager of Collections and Exhibitions. “Karen Stentaford’s carefully crafted photographs are all about time: her time spent connecting to specific places, time required for the ancient photographic processes, and the time viewers will spend in front of these almost magical images. She is an important artistic voice in New Brunswick, and a leader in a wave of brilliant young photographers currently working in Atlantic Canada.”