Name: Winter Opening! Two Art Exhibitions: Words Matter & Barbara Brown - Of Time
Start: 2026-01-16T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-16T20:30:00-05:00
Location: 858 Bank Street, Suite 101, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Ontario K1S 3W3

Winter Opening! Two Art Exhibitions: Words Matter & Barbara Brown - Of Time

𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠! 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬!
Free entry. RSVP in link. Many of the artists will be present.
Both Exhibitions run until February 14.
𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐒 𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑
FEATURING:
Alaska
Pascale Arpin
Sierra Barber
Joni Cheung
Brandon A. Dalmer
Jennifer Lefort
Micah Lexier
Luke Norad
Christos Paniteras
Ryan Statz
Guillermo Trejo
Nico Williams
𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 brings together Canadian artists who use language, symbols, and text as material. Whether direct or through metaphor, these works treat language as a system that organizes meaning and power, exposing the rules that govern social life. 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 asks how meaning is produced, who shapes it, and how these forces guide our daily lives.
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𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐍 - 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄
𝘖𝘧 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 is Barbara Brown’s latest photographic series. This work takes plant material at different points throughout the growing season and brings multiple phases of growth into a single image. The result goes beyond the binary narrative of decline or renewal, offering instead an expanded view of duration.
Brown’s work enters a long-standing tradition of considering the garden and the sunflower within Western art history. From Vincent Van Gogh and Emil Nolde to Anselm Kiefer, these motifs have often carried symbolic weight, standing in for vitality, endurance, or historical trauma.
They have also been shaped overwhelmingly by a masculine visual tradition that favours assertion, monumentality, and metaphor. Brown approaches this history differently.

Brown’s images remain grounded in direct curatorial observation. Flowers, seed heads, stems, dirt, twigs, and leaves are arranged into living systems. The sunflower, in particular, is not exulted; it is shown as is, in a continuity with its environment.
Her use of perspective, ratios, and composition are meant to place the viewer within the garden rather than outside it. This perspective emphasizes proximity, care, and attention. In equal measure, Brown’s images appear as responsive spaces, shaped by human intervention and natural process.
Made during a period of ecological and cultural uncertainty, Of Time centers on presence, duration, and close observation, inviting sustained attention to the subtle shifts that shape lived experience.