ArtsCourt at the O.A.G.
The vast space of winding hallways leads to a black-box room capable of holding as many works as people and more.
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EXHIBITIONS ON LOCATION
07/02/2024 - 17/02/2024
Undercurrents
Szturm found the opening take her away just like a fast-running tow; speeches, music, and conferences with fellow artists engaged her in an intersection of spheres between visual (painting, video, sculpture) and physical (theatre). She was lucky to receive entrance to the Kimiko show and thoroughly enjoyed the interdisciplinary exhibition.
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Check out the curator Sarah Jasmine Hodgson.
For more on the Fringe festival check out their Instagram or website.
Photo credits to Melody Maloney.
AXENÉO7
Founded in 1983, AXENÉO7 is an artist-run centre dedicated to advocating, promoting, and exhibiting the visual arts, while developing critical discourse around them. It is a gathering place for sharing and experimentation. Through a critically engaged program, it endeavours to expand the parameters of artistic practice and its presentation, and to improve artists’ conditions for production.
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For more click here.
EXHIBITIONS ON LOCATION
28/11/2024 - 30/11/2024
Building Bridges
While not able to visit, Szturm was thankful to have contemporaries who ​could be present at the opening. This is her first ever exhibition outside of the province.
Definitely Superior Art Gallery
This upgraded cinema presents refreshed work that excites the budding art scene in Thunder Bay.
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EXHIBITIONS ON LOCATION
08/11/2024-11/01/2025
Interconnectedness
Szturm's Domestic Ritual and Bugging oil works both entered into the interconnected juried show with enthusiasm.
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Happy to be welcomed again in this grassroots gallery, the artist had presented the following written statement:
Interconnectedness relates to my current art practice as I am always reading, intaking my environment, and taking note of specific observations that resonate with me on a critical level. These sources of inspiration are stewed in, often both transfigured and transmogrified into a sketch that I find myself determined to conjure and share in whatever form is fitting. These artworks stick with viewers longer, unafraid to capture attention through their mutated appearances. It seems current contemporary artwork is churned from one’s surrounding, interconnected inextricably to art history and beyond, but the beautiful discoveries and commentaries that emerge make galleries a rich space for critical thinking, as they should be.
01/09/2023-07/10/2023
Elucidate
Visitors would meet Szturm's Domestic clown (Feb. 2023) when first walking into the show on opening night, basked in natural light. bad beekeeper (Apr. 2023) was also accepted for display, as she wrote
The hive is closing in, I don’t know what I did to make them angry.
The artist was enthused with her success in her first paid and juried showcase.
Gallery 115
This student- and professor-ran gallery offers a space for artists all over Ottawa to exhibit.
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EXHIBITIONS ON LOCATION
24/11/2023-07/12-2023
Planting Roses In January
Szturm took a foray into curating with her ART4119 course run by Celina Jeffery. Exploring The Garden, inspired by Derek Jarman's Modern Nature, she fell foremostly for the contemplative space it could become. ​The artist took on a leadership role in curatorial research, helping write a large section of the curatorial essay and catalogue, creating and refining goals as the exhibition progressed, helping select artists, wrote letters and contracts, aided in fundraising, made prints with the exhibition's logo on leaves to align with the ecologically-positive outlook the show had, and spoke during the Vernissage.
“Planted… a selection of old roses… Rosa mundi, rose of the world.”
Derek Jarman, “Modern Nature” (4)
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Check out the class's Instagram.
27/09/2023-09/10/2023
INK-UP
The artist's walltext and statement on this exciting workshop/exhibition combination are as follows:
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Ink up!
A Printmaking Workshop & Showcase / Un atelier de gravure et une exposition
Erin Szturm is a student of the Fine Arts who aims to use her printmaking skills in Ink up! A Printmaking Workshop & Showcase. She explores the Linocut manner of printing, well known but at times forgotten, as she takes on a professorial role aiming to teach participants on the “Opening night” or “Vernissage” how to make, print, and sign their own. Using the communication and critiquing skills perfected during her undergrad, paired with a hands-on approach to learning, she’s filled the room with handmade art created by individuals, well-known and newly acquainted, to the artist.
She recognizes that the arts community thrives on this hands-on approach; this is what keeps the arts full of life, and life full of artists.
Please take in this show of learning.​
The artist was thrilled for the opportunity to not only propose, prepare, run an adult workshop for the first time, curate, install, and take down a workshop/exhibition in an area that was foreign to her a few years ago, but showcase the work made by many hands in a community-led group exhibition.
15/02/2023-27/02/2023
Climates - Mixtures - Climatiques
This curatorial project by Sarah Rooney included artworks by Saanya Chopra, Ferhat Demirel, Yunjia Hu, Maxime Legault, Emily Matheson, Madeleine Merritt, and Erin Szturm
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deeper into the forest (April 2022) was selected to be displayed aside a handful of contemporaries. The opening and opportunity was one met with thanks and excitement by Szturm as she socialized with those interested in her piece and others. The artist was happy to converse and join in debates between palettes, setting, motifs, intention, or meaning within her own work and others. The night breathed fresh air and inspiration into her mind, hands, and lungs.
31/10/2022-4/11/2022
Based on a True Story
With Chris Glabb, Szturm began brainstorming early in the summer (prior to the announcement of submissions opening) on the topic of horror movies that captivated them both. Such a topic is rich in varied themes, tropes, topical issues, and cinematic visuals they could pull focus on and utilize to elevate their work. Ideation began as they planned extensively on a shared doc from two different cities, laboured on new works from sketch to completion, made posters, marketed, created essays, and printed labels to pair with their personally installed bilingual show. Though a smaller presentation with about five works put forth by each artist, it was an intensive product of thought and care by the pair.
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Check out Chris Glabb's work on his website or their Instagram.
SAW Club
The club/gallery space offered a relaxed attitude for its patrons to experience music, art, and food altogether.
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EXHIBITIONS ON LOCATION
23/04/2023-24/04/2023
SCIART
Converging Science and Fine Art in a show put on by Neuroscience and Sci-Art Professor Cristian Zaelzer, the artist thought of Mary Kelly and her Post-Partum Document (1973-79); interdisciplinarity is something Szturm hopes to delve into further.
For more on Cristian Zaelzer click here.
For more on the exhibition and the Convergence Initiative that enabled this enmeshment of science and art click here.
17/03/2022
Astro
The artist stood in the small club in Ottawa, affording a space to show her work for the first time. She submitted several works and her diptych Intersection (left - right) (Feb. 2022) was ultimately accepted.
Her experience was one of excitement as the atmosphere thrummed with music, light, art, and drinks for inquisitive students, professors, and those thriving off of arts of all kind.
Wallspace Gallery
A small-but-mighty gallery in Ottawa that has been gaining traction offering emerging and established artists a place to exhibit and sell their work.
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EXHIBITIONS ON LOCATION
13/08/2024-27/08/2024
Wallspace Award
Group Show:
Wall Space X uOttawa
New Dimensions 2024
In an exciting opportunity provided by Szturm's exceptional work in Means of Abundance, the artist and several of her contemporaries were awarded with some of their first experiences being showcased in a commercial gallery.
100 Laurier on the UOttawa Campus
A building of old bones masked by new stone that facilitates contemporary arts learning and the lifecycle that is the graduation exhibition.
EXHIBITIONS ON LOCATION
23/04/2024 - 28/04/2024
Means of Abundance
Szturm seized many opportunities with this grad exhibit, becoming quite prolific in her process over the 2023-24 year and completing several large-scale, multi-panel pieces to celebrate the end of her undergraduate career. Set in 114 with two other artists, Elie Crighton and Kristen Hinojos, the trio closed in on the Home; what it means, how it is embodied, who/what exists there, why it is of importance were teased apart when visitors rounded their area.
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Moreover, Szturm dabbled in curation, install, takedown, writing and selling exhibition catalogs (read here), forming and presenting speeches at the MoA Vernissage (watch here), organizing and running tours throughout not only the week-long show run, but the whole year. Her last year of her BFA is self described as a "comprehensive slice of life in any Arts and Culture sector."
23/03/2024
Open House Spotlight
on Szturm:
"The rat's nest in my
mind when I think of
my female ancestors"
As a volunteer Fine Artist, speaker, and installation artist for the 2024 Open House at the University of Ottawa, Szturm welcomed an unfinished room roughed up by previous MFA students to seize the idea that art can appear anywhere and occur under any conditions. She was inspired by women of myth, religion, and folktale and took up reclaiming their space in nature her own way. The room is an ode to Creator(s), those who got the short end of life/history due to factors outside of their control, and one's mystical connection to the earth many attempt to sidestep.
