Even With Sharp Teeth You Can’t Bite Water is an exhibition of new works investigating The Diasporic Imaginary and the complications of self-fashioning while still in the midst of grappling with a fraught inheritance…

Each year, A/P hosts a print exchange and exhibition in conjunction with an exciting sale and silent auction fundraiser.

This year we received 74 editions by artists from:

Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Spruce Grove, AB; Sherwood Park, AB; Saskatoon, SK; Regina, SK; Fruitvale, BC; Kimberly, BC; Lake Country, BC; Nanaimo, BC; Vancouver, BC; Magog, QC; Astoria, NY; Asheville, NC; Denton, TX; Oxford, MS; Moab, UT; San Luis Potosi, Mexico; Cuernavaca, Mexico; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Wonthella, Australia; Ljubljana, Slovenia; Brandenberg, Germany; Tokyo, Japan; and Viña de Mar, Chile.

“What you see is a vacant space left by a rider who has crossed the desert!”

Bahman Mohasses – Iranian Contemporary Artist (1931-2010)

The main technique I have used to create this series of work is Mezotint. Mezzotint is a labor-intensive printmaking process which begins with the inky blackness of a fully textured or “rocked” copper plate, and by burnishing and scraping the plate I create smooth places where the ink does not stick… As the main theme of these works is “life and its undeniable result: Death,” this reductive process is a good reflection of the way that I consider the most inevitable happening in the Human being’s life…

In the summer of 2022, Nat Cann participated in a residency with the Calgary Allied Arts Foundation’s (CAAF) to find what fuels the sprawling city of Calgary, Alberta, a bustling place of quiet modernity within western Canada and the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, the Métis Nation. This was to be a new body of work entirely separate from current material, something livelier than the current lonesomeness of the Atlantic…

My Data Body is a collaborative, multimedia installation that includes sculptures, video projection, large scale prints, an artist book, a zine, and a virtual reality artwork. My Data Body brings together different forms of personal data such as medical scans, social media, biometric, banking and health data in an attempt to make visible and manipulable our many intersecting data corpuses so that in VR they can be held, inspected and dissected…