Eve Chartrand: Works featured in a National Juried Exhibition at the Buckham Gallery in Michigan

Current third year PhD student Eve Chartrand is showing her works at a National Juried Exhibition in Flint Michigan.

📆 April 7 - May 13, 2023

📬 Buckham Gallery, 121 West Second Street Flint, Michigan 48502

🖼 Flint’s ARTWALK to be held Friday, May 12 from 6 to 9 PM

Installation view

Teeth & Hair is a national juried exhibition of visual art featuring, using, or about teeth or hair and their enduring cultural significance. Lore and symbolism surrounding teeth & hair permeates every culture– for example, the infamous Tooth Fairy collects baby teeth for their nefarious deeds in exchange for coins. Many lovers have collected locks of hair from the subject of their affections to have a piece of them with them. In the animal kingdom, alligator, shark, and predator teeth are perceived as dangerously fascinating artifacts while mink, fox, and other fur is coveted as a sign of prestige and wealth. Subjectively, teeth and hair can be perceived as beautiful, grotesque, or abject. 

Participating Artists: Stephanie Berrie, Diane Bronstein, Elizabeth Duffy, Craig Hinshaw, Jean-René Leblanc, Gina Lee Robbins, Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, Erica Podwoiski, Russell Prather, Ève Provost Chartrand, Catherine Reinhart, Gyona Rice, Ronan Sampson, Brandon C. Smith, and Hanna Sosin.

More about the event: HERE

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Eve Provost Chartrand earned an MFA at the University of Calgary in Canada and is now a PHD candidate both at Transart Institute and Liverpool John Moores University.

Born and raised in Montreal Quebec, Canada, she has a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design and studied Visual Semiotics and Fine Arts. Her artworks have been presented in exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Her current work investigates the nature of women’s negative body representations associated with ageing. Her visual iterations explore the implications to self-identity and agency of current negative body definitions in women’s lives through the implementation of creative case studies.

By exploring visual strategies defying limited anthropomorphic views that might falsify or alter phenomenological experiences of nature and steer viewers away from a place of origin situated in the body, Provost Chartrand offers compassionate and vibrant humanism prone to generating re-interpretations and re-considerations of ageing negative bodies.

More about the artist: HERE

New work in progress: Co-Mingling Imaginaries