Cassia and Amber Powell
ABOUT cassia
Cassia Powell (she/they) is an emerging contemporary artist and curator based in the unceded lands of Lekwungen-speaking peoples, otherwise known as Victoria, BC. Powell is a BFA Visual Arts honours graduate from the University of Victoria. They are the co-founder of the Dirty Dishes Collective; a curatorial project which aims to support emerging artists and cultural practitioners as a site of critical discourse, creative experimentation, and community engagement.
Between their personal artistic practice and their curatorial focus, Powell’s work explores comfort + care as a radical act of social resistance. They create surreal, affective visual structures and depictions of quotidian rituals using a combination of soft sculpture and large-scale oil painting. Each one of Powell’s works signifies vast lifeworlds of queer relationality, encrypted sociality, and utopian potentiality.
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Powell has been the recipient of the Helen Pitt Scholarship for the Arts (2016), the Subtle Technologies Mentorship Program Award (2022), and nominated for the BMO First Art Award (2020). They will be exhibiting their third solo exhibition, In Between You and Me, in Montreal QC in 2024.
