Vesper Guthrie
Dexter Barker-Glenn

Vesper Guthrie + Dexter Barker-Glenn
Thursday February 19, 6pm
Artist Talk

Join us for an evening of conversations around the current exhibitions. Two discussions will take place: Vesper Guthrie in conversation with Alex Turgeon, followed by Dexter Barker-Glenn  in conversation with Kelly Jazvac

6:00 p.m. : Welcome
6:15 p.m. : Discussion 1 —  Vesper Guthrie × Alex Turgeon
6:45 p.m. : Discussion 2 — Dexter Barker-Glenn × Kelly Jazvac

The discussions will take place in English. Bilingual participation is welcome. Chairs will be available. For any questions regarding accessibility, please contact us at 514 288-4972 or [email protected].

Intermediary — Vesper Guthrie
January 16 – February 28, 2026

The forest is both a reserved and exploited territory. It provides shelter and resources while bearing the traces of extraction and loss. Our built environments reproduce the same tensions: they offer rest, but are shaped by a logic of ownership, profit, and control. How can we evolve in a system where protection itself can harm and increase our vulnerability? — Camille Richard

→ https://centreclark.com/en/exhibition/intermediary/

Alex Turgeon (b. Kjipuktuk/Halifax, NS) is an artist who investigates structural relationships between poetry and architecture and has been presented in part at the Tate (Liverpool); Akademie der Künste, KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin); Kunsthalle Zürich; Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge). Turgeon has contributed to C Magazine, Canadian Art, Frieze, Mousse, Public Parking, amongst others. He is the current Structurist Creative Research Fellow at the University of Saskatchewan.

First Water —   Dexter Barker-Glenn
January 16 – February 28, 2026

Across from the bus stop I see the world’s most brilliant poster, sunfaded now. A big diamond’s million faces of beauty. The paper must have some special bond. In order to glue the world together, we need the bones of animals. The paper, glue and wood pulp, the sunlight trapped in the paper diamond’s paper facets. — Hannah Berger

→ https://centreclark.com/en/exhibition/first-water/

Kelly Jazvac is a Canadian artist born in Hamilton, Ontario and based in Montréal. She has a long-standing sculptural interest in the meanings that can be found in waste materials, such as plastic. She has exhibited at The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, The MOMA (New York), the Eli and Edythe Broad Museum (East Lansing), and Ujazdowski Castle CCA (Warsaw). 

Accessibility

The gallery space is located inside the building at 5455 avenue de Gaspé, suite 114. The building has an access ramp located on the side, near the corner of avenue de Gaspé and Saint-Viateur Street.