Vent Over Tea is proud to present Frames of Mind, an inclusive art exhibition speaking on the themes of mental health, identity, and community happening December 2-10, 2023. The exhibition highlights the talent of artists from all ages, experiences, and backgrounds. 

This exhibition is in partnership with My Friend Frankie, a creative network that prioritizes three key principles: creators, community, and local businesses.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS

Some artist pieces will be available for sale during the vernissage as well as through the Coups de pinceaux, coups de ciseaux website. 

Carolina is a Latina-Canadian Fine Arts Painter and Art Educator based in Montréal. Her work dives into the subjects of dual identity, belonging, and self-love. With portraits, she captures the essence of individuals as they navigate their diverse identities, and in her abstract art, she delves into emotions and introspection.

Carolina Aguirre

She/Her

Canadian artist, illustrator and painter of Haitian origin, Wendy Alexina Vancol explores in depth the notions of heritage, diaspora, memory and identity. She frees herself from common representations of black bodies in white spaces, emphasizing marginalization, social pressure, prejudice and violence. Through her work, she allows these bodies to occupy space in unconventional ways.

Wendy-Alexina Vancol

She/Her

Crystel is a visual artist of Portuguese origin who lives and works in the Eastern Townships and Montreal. She works mostly in oil paints, but also explores printmaking and alternative photographic processes. She has shown her work in various group shows in Montreal, and has taught an art class for adults with physical disabilities.

Crystel Pereira

She/Her

Nikoiya Wile is a Gitsxan painter born in Scarborough, Ontario. Through the lens of ancestral myth and methodology, their work serves as a visual commentary on current Western socio-environmental influences and identities. Centered in their work is reverence of Indigenous matriarchal systems and the stability they provide the planet. 

Nikoiya Wile

She/Her, They/Them

Bailey Bird is the creator and artist behind ooeyg00eys – a small handmade jewelry business located in Tio’tia:ke. Bailey’s jewelry focuses on bright colours and playful designs intended to spark nostalgia and heal your inner child.

Bailey Bird

They/Them

Fauve is a queer, trans and neurodivergent artist creating visual and wearable art. They mainly use upcycled materials: scraps of fabric, hand-me-downs, old school notebooks… Except when tattooing of course! He takes inspiration in what we would find ugly or disturbing to turn them into strangely approachable pieces with a punk touch. Illness, deformation, queerness, circus and jesters are recurring elements to their creations.

Fauve (Finn Giguère)

He/Him, They/Them

Samara is an Irish-Canadian actress and writer and mental health advocate. Her debut poetry collection What If The Sun Died is a #1 best-selling book in the Mythological Storytelling category. In the city of Montreal, she is recognized as a community poet and has spoken and recited her poems at schools, ceremonies, and various other public occasions.

Samara O’Gorman

She/Her

Ranime is an international student from Egypt. She comes from a drawing background, focusing mainly on figurative representations, which is also reflected in her painting practice. She chooses to depict subject matter that revolves around the question of identity and how it can present itself in various ways. Her goal is that the connection between the audience and the artwork, whether it be light or intense, brings a wave of familiarity to some extent, all while inviting the viewer to future introspection.

Ranime El Morry

She/Her

Em is a self-taught artist mostly interested in textile arts’ disruptive and ironic potential as a queer art drawing from a craft built on gendered norms. Their pieces play with themes of mental health, queerness, loneliness/community, and unlikely paths of healing.

Em Saulnier-Leclerc

They/Them

Rojelio is a queer, transgender Latinx artist, born in Mexico and is currently based out of Montreal. Rojelio primarily works in oils and graphite, creating portraits and figurative art. Through their work Rojelio is exploring themes of identity, gender, sexuality, what it means to be trans and creating representation for the trans community.

Rojelio Palacios

They/Them

Sadia is a queer transdisciplinary artist whose practice traverses many realms, including the physical, the virtual, and the energetic. Their portfolio is a kaleidoscope of creativity, encompassing a wide array of mediums including jewelry, installation, code art, and sound design. Through an interplay of media, Sadia conjures evocative narratives that transcend the boundaries of form and time.

Sadia Awan

They/Them

Trang Ta is a Vietnamese artist living in Montreal. Her approach to the multidisciplinary practice she does often promotes the values of handicraft and uniting with nature without costing the Earth. Through the natural elements found in her every day life, Trang’s hand-crafted art offers a window into her dreamy, emotional and tranquil universe.

Trang Ta

She/Her

Yujayad is a queer visual artist and their main mediums are digital art, drawing, and painting. Art allows them to connect with others as well as with their emotions, roots, identity, and spirituality. They mostly invoke elements from nature and the human body in their work and use colour to express themselves more abstractly.

Yujayad (Jade Dragon Yazidjian)

They/Them

Vernissage Details

🗓️ Saturday December 2, 2023

🕔  5-8pm

📍 Galerie d’art Coups de pinceaux, coups de ciseaux
      (4603 St Laurent Blvd, Montreal, Quebec H2T 1R2)

🍷 Drinks and snacks will be provided!

GALLERY HOURS

Sunday – Wednesday: Closed
Thursday : 5–7 p.m.
Friday: 5–7 p.m.
Saturday: 12–3 p.m.

DIGITAL EDITION

Our digital edition of the exhibition will showcase the talent of our exhibiting artists as well as other artists in the community.

  • 02 (Reginalde Denis)

    She/Her

    Using multiple different artistic practices, artist 02 expresses the longing for peaceful better days, the want of belonging and the existential dread that looms over. Yet, does it in a bright and cute way!

    @02.docx

  • Victor Boyer

    He/Him

    Victor Boyer was born in 2001 in Montréal, Canada. From a young age, he was obsessed with drawing, in his teens, he befriended a number of local graffiti artists and discovered a deep curiosity in art history, this led him to start experimenting with other mediums, such as tattooing, mural painting, watercolor and oil painting.

    @vikboyer

  • Sarah Béguineau

    She/Her

    Sarah Béguineau, a Montreal-based artist of Caribbean and French heritage, uses her art to celebrate the beauty of melanin and reclaim her identity as a Black woman. Inspired by her personal journey and the lack of representation she experienced growing up, her work features faceless figures, allowing for universal identification, black woman and black figures. She prominently incorporates gold, symbolizing pride in her roots and community. Her art consistently explores themes of Black love, empowerment, and beauty, reflecting her personal experiences and inspiring others in her community.

    @sarahbeg.art

  • Sébastien Clermont

    He/Him

    Sébastien is a multidisciplinary artist who uses many different visual mediums to create work that deals with spiritual and psychological themes. He draws inspiration from world mythologies and visionary experiences provoked by psychedelics/plant medicines; as well as archetypal symbols such as those of the Tarot and Jungian psychoanalysis.

    @satin.bees.art

  • Adriana Herrera

    She/Her

    Adriana Herrera is a multi-media artist originally from Atlanta, GA now based in Montreal. Although her main occupation is digital animation, she began painting again during the pandemic as a means of channelling the emotions she couldn’t simply put into words during that harsh time. Going through a discovery phase, she likes to experiment with different styles, colours and mediums depending on what she is feeling and uses different characters to express them.

    @eiydree

  • Sandra Thach

    She/Her

    Sandra Thach is a Chinese Canadian visual artist born in 2000 in Montréal, her mediums are mainly paintings and drawings. Even since a child, she loves to draw and paint things that she encountered in her life; she loves the fact that she can communicate her thoughts, feelings and many more life experience through her art.

    @sandrawgon

  • Karolina Szablewska

    She/Her

    Karolina believes art is everything. She likes to portray many subjects, from cityscapes, landscapes, animals, to cyborgs, horror and darkness, working with beautiful and uncomfortable themes. She has been painting for 20 years and graduated from NSCAD University with a BFA in interdisciplinary art. She uses a variety of mediums, from watercolor, ink, pencil, to digital, textile, and photography. She is also an animator and writer with umami animations.

    @art.karolina

  • Amanda Brown, Dimitri Copper, and Emery Vanderburgh

    Emery is an intermedia artist and disability advocate, utilizing a variety of technologies and mediums. Most recently, she’s been interested in exploring animation and reinterpreting disability history through digital art.

    Amanda Brown (MSc) is a researcher at McGill University in the Department of Human Genetics and fosters her personal passion for art through work with textiles and garment design, embroidery, sketched works, and painting.

    Dimitri Copper is a multimedia artist whose practice is primarily based in theater design. They are drawn to the ways that mediums ranging from puppetry to printmaking can be used to communicate themes and concepts to a wide variety of audiences.

    @emery.vanderburgh

  • ate agit (Fatima Barron)

    She/Her

    ate agit is the artist name of Fatima Barron. Fatima is a queer, neurodivergent, second-generation Filipina organizer, artist, and cultural worker. She is a self-taught artist motivated by the stories and issues faced by the Filipino community and other marginalized peoples. Her work aims to play with familiar sights and reimagine them to highlight the collective struggle and strength of the people.

    @ate.agit

  • 02 (Reginalde Denis)
  • Victor Boyer
  • Sarah Béguineau
  • Sébastien Clermont
  • Adriana Herrera
  • Sandra Thach
  • Karolina Szablewska
  • Amanda Brown, Dimitri Copper, and Emery Vanderburgh
  • ate agit (Fatima Barron)

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