OCAD University

The Red Head Gallery will present the exhibition Auguries and Dreams by artist and OCAD U Illustration, Assistant Professor Christina Sealey.

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From The Red Head Gallery:

Christina Sealey’s practice is based primarily in drawing, painting, and sound. Through her work she has been examining the relationship between identity and environment: the intimate connections between people and the places they inhabit. Auguries and dreams is a collection of new paintings that explore the intangible and mysterious qualities of "night" or "darkness”, a dominant theme in Christina's recent work. These paintings play with the symbolism associated with “night” – in particular the association with the unconscious, transformation, and absence / presence. She is particularly interested in how these ideas influence and intersect with the physical experience of night and darkness. Moments of tension, indecision, transition, and mystery are recurring themes. The play between representation and abstraction emphasizes the themes of mystery and ambiguity, blurring the distinction between the real and the imaginary.  

Christina Sealey is an artist and musician based in Hamilton, Ontario. She holds an MFA in Drawing and Painting from the Edinburgh College of Art. Christina has exhibited throughout Canada and the UK in public and commercial galleries, and she has performed her music in many countries around the world. Her work is represented in private, corporate, and public collections. She has been awarded grants for her painting and audio work from both the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts and from private foundations including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. Christina is an assistant professor at OCAD University.

All are invited to this exhibition by OCAD alum Doug Martin.

Gallery Hours
Wednesday to Friday: 12 pm - 4:30 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 12 pm - 4 pm

Stephanie Power is currently teaching 3rd Year Illustration Core Studio at OCAD. Stephanie has been the creator for editorials, advertising and publishing clients such as The New York Daily News, Wall Street Journal, Toronto Life Fashion, Scholastic Books, Dunkin Donuts, Hasbro, Nickelodeon and many other clients.

Joe Morse has been a professional illustrator for 23 years and has won over 150 international awards. Joe has taught Life Drawing, Basic Design, Object Drawing, Painting and Editorial Illustration. Joe has lectured on his work at OCAD in Toronto, Peen State at Erie, NY, the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas and that the Hallo Academy in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Leading a faculty of 30, teaching, academic advising over 320 students and running a vibrant business have honed Joe’s skills in leadership, team building and goal setting.

Gail Geltner’s career as an artist-illustrator spans 3 decades. She has produced drawings, paintings, graphic design, for newspapers, magazines, theatre companies, exhibitions, and social agencies both in Canada, and the US. Gail’s work has been commissioned by Oxford University press: McCelland & Steward, University of Toronto Press, Penguin, The Women’s Press, and numerous others. Gail’s 20 year photographic project entitled “the Other Family Album: A Chronicle 1975-1995”, was exhibited at the Cathedral of St. John the Devine in New York City, The Arts and Culture Centre in Corner Brook, NL and was shown at the Floating Gallery in Winnipeg and the Nurse-Healers Conference in Vancouver, BC. Gail is currently researching the connections between the Creative Arts and the Healing Arts. Gail’s introduction to Therapeutic Touch prompted her to study Biology, Anatomy, Physiology, and Eastern Medical Theory.

Over the past 8 years at the Ontario College of Art & Design, Doug Panton has taken a particular interest in supporting cross-disciplinary design skills. He has had a successful career as an illustrator and a designer for over thirty years. Doug continues to receive assignments that require the design complexity of a multi-faceted project outcome, this has enabled him to experience and expand his competency in this area. With this industry experience it has allowed him to apply a methodology that further develops an interdisciplinary nature—where designers use illustration techniques and vice versa but most important an understanding of both disciplines.