![]() Following the McCormick House, The Esplanade Apartment, and S.R. ![]() Image: Strange Invitation (2020), oil on canvasĪrtist Talk: Brenda Draney and Janine Mileafĭraney discusses her own associations with Arts Club Executive Director and Chief Curator Janine Mileaf.Ĭollage for the Arts Club is the fourth chapter in the Collages for Mies van der Rohe project in which the artist has been installing monumental photographs on the famed architect’s buildings. Her practice is based on her experiences and the relationships formed between her current hometown of Edmonton and the northern community of Slave Lake, where she was raised.ĭrink from the River was initiated, organized, and circulated by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, in collaboration with the Arts Club of Chicago and the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton. The exhibition was curated by Janine Mileaf, Executive Director and Chief Curator, for the Chicago presentation. ![]() Recurring and recognizable motifs of specific figures, pieces of furniture, or architectural features, alongside more generalized joyful and traumatic encounters leave Draney’s oeuvre open to association and to individual connection.ĭraney is Cree from Sawridge First Nation, situated by the town of Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada. The cumulative portrait that emerges references a collective self that encompasses not only her own experience but that of past generations and current community members. In Drink from the river, her first solo exhibition in the United States, Draney portrays scenes of daily life, along with those of singular events, that she leaves open-ended or unspecified. 1976, member of Sawridge First Nation, Treaty 8) paints narrative canvases marked by economical brushstrokes and expanses of white space. Drawing from complex memories and an evolving sense of identity, Brenda Draney (b.
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