Newcomers Alexandra Flood

Newcomers Alexandra FloodAcrylic on canvas 48 x 79 in. 2021 "Takeuchis new series offers us a calming respite from the challenges of everyday life while reflecting on the complex and rich history of Japanese Canadians on this land. Takeuchis Long Division asks us to move forward with hope despite the ongoing and systemic problems impacting the world. "The series features Takeuchis iconic painterly style, combining figurative imagery with flowing and fragmented abstract forms.

/ 84 x 84 cm

and portraits reference imagery and narratives from The Old Farmer’s Almanac

Developed principally from what Morrow calls “studio sessions” (provisional spaces of mutual and consensual sovereignty)

these works are true to the gap that exists between reality and our perception of it

nothing to do

15 x 15 x 2 in

"When making an image transfer

raining dripping

the left canvas of each diptych is infused with Takeuchi’s familial memories

I continue to research themes of: population

but of what

my father would be dispatched to the dairy to buy a pint of Neapolitan ice cream