Braxton Garneau
À Terre, 2020
Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist. Commissioned response to archival exhibition, It’s About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970.
Oil on canvas
In-Gallery Installation in Edmonton
Conversations with Preston Pavlis and Braxton Garneau
Seika Boye, curator of It’s About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970 and Now, speaks with local painters Braxton Garneau and Preston Pavlis, who both were commissioned to create works in response to archival objects in the collection that are on display at the gallery. This conversation took place October 21, 2020.
Artist: Braxton Garneau
Braxton Garneau is a multimedia Canadian artist living in Edmonton, Alberta. He received a diploma in Fine Art from MacEwan University in 2017 and will be graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Alberta in 2020.
Through research-based practice, Garneau’s work responds to his ever-evolving relationship with his Caribbean culture. His practice engages with the Caribbean’s dynamic mix of cultures, its diasporas, and its socio-political realities, all of which are constantly transforming themselves. Informed by personal experience, ethnography, and structural anthropology, Garneau’s practice translates his own analyses into paintings, prints, and installations.