YORKTON - The Godfrey Dean Art Gallery is currently presenting a new art exhibition by Ryan Wonsiak, 'Alternate Scenarios'.
“Alternate Scenarios describes a personal story and lived experience through a representational style in bold colour, showing familiar figurative depictions of social and family encounters,” noted the gallery website.
The show kicked off Saturday with a reception and drawing jam with the artist.
On the gallery website the artist explains, “being in isolation and solitude for two years has been a time of vacillation between real and imagined histories, of recalling memories of childhood and family paradigms through photographs and oral histories from family. “I was born a queer and gender non-conforming individual in the small Saskatchewan town of Yorkton in 1985. I lived in an unsafe community and through the harassment of my peers and social circle for first looking and acting like a “girl”, and later for being what was categorized as, not in reclamation of myself, but put upon me by others, as “gay”. “This series is an expression of these memories and dynamics through visual mediums of drawing and painting. My exhibition will invite the viewer to imagine a place where they can no longer trust their own memories. A state where everything is at once confusing, familial, and familiar.”
Alternate Scenarios is on display until May 27.
In addition, opening April 5 and running to May 23, will be the gallery’s multi-year project ‘Belong Where You Find Yourself’ will transform the main gallery. This is multidisciplinary and multi-generational exhibition featuring drawing, painting, photography, film making, storytelling, musical theatre, wood working, sculpture, and fabric art from a unique group of local artists!
