Exciting new exhibits to check out at PAMA this season

Published February 21, 2020 at 7:05 pm

The Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA) will be bringing two contemporary artists to the art gallery this winter.

PAMA is excited to welcome a new touring exhibition Jagdeep Raina: Chase, which is on now until May 24, 2020.

Raina’s expressive and moving textiles and drawings explore memory as well as a sense of community.

The show is curated by Shauna McCabe and organized by the Art Gallery of Guelph with the support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.

On Saturday, February 29, 2020, from 1 – 4:30 p.m., guests will have the opportunity to join the artist for a meet and greet in the exhibit and enjoy a film screening and discussion with Raina’s special guests Pamila Matharu and Sarindar Dhaliwal.

Raised and currently based in Guelph, Raina shares stories of the Sikh diaspora and draws upon personal records and those of his family who were among the first to immigrate to southern Ontario and oral and archival histories of the wider pioneering Kashmiri and Punjabi Sikh diaspora.

PAMA also welcomes Winnipeg artist Simon Hughes as he explores the symbolic Canadian landscape in his first solo public exhibition Simon Hughes: Works, 2001-2020.

Hughes will be making an exclusive appearance on Thursday, March 5, 2020, from 7 – 8:30 p.m.

He will take guests on a tour of his work and some will even be unveiled at PAMA for the very first time.

His interior scenes of artist studios, whimsical architectural structures, rural-and-cityscapes, iceberg and mountain views combine the familiar and strange and represent a window into the imaginative and the mysterious.

For more information and to register, click here.

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