PAT(I)ENCE: Alan Belcher, Steffani Jemison, Ensemble (after Ben Kinmont)
September 6 - October 1, 2025

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Alan Belcher is a Toronto based visual artist whose conceptual work is decidedly multi-layered and object orientated. He has been recognized in the past as an originator of a tactile fusion of photography and object-making. A transparency of vision and simplicity of fabrication with a concentrated regard for materials remain hallmarks of his serial productions. Belcher is known for a directness and a sharp simplicity when approaching difficult subject matter. A sense of humour and a reverence for a Pop sensibility, as well as a hands-on approach, invade much of his work. A self-taught artist, he was co-founder and co-director of Gallery Nature Morte with artist Peter Nagy in New York’s East Village (1982–88). Works by Belcher are held in various public collections which include the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Le Consortium (Dijon), Musee des Beaux-Arts (Montréal), Deste Foundation (Athens), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Zurich), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), MoCA San Diego, Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC (Vancouver), and Musée Nicéphore Niépce (Chalon-sur-Saône, France) —as well as numerous private collections. Alan Belcher works with, and is represented by: Tara Downs in New York City, greengrassi in London U.K., Hunt Gallery in Toronto, and Galerie Eli Kerr in Montréal.

Steffani Jemison (b. 1981) lives and works in New York. Solo exhibitions, screenings, and performances include Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford (2025); Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon (2025; 2021); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (2024); Greene Naftali, New York (2024, 2021); JOAN, Los Angeles (2022); Annet
Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2022, 2020); Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati (2021); Kai Matsumiya, New York (2019); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); Lincoln Center, New York (2018); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2017); CAPC Bordeaux (2017). Notable group exhibitions include Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient
Egypt, 1876–Now, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2024-25); Counterpublic, St. Louis (2023); ; Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York (2021); Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, organized by The Studio Museum in Harlem and The American Federation for Arts (travelled 2019–21); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019).

Jemison is Associate Professor of Art & Design at Rutgers University; her first novel, A Rock, A River, A Street, was published by Primary Information in 2022.