2024 | MEGHAN HARDER
SWIMMING AT NIGHT!!!!!!!!!
TORONTO
Sep 14 - Oct 19, 2024

**Meghan Harder** - *Skiagraphia V*, 2021-2024
wax pastel, canvas, paracord, grommets, interfacing, tensioners, rope cleats
26” x 17 1/2” (66 x 44.5 cm)

Blouin Division is pleased to present Swimming at Night!!!!!!!!!, an exhibition of new work by Meghan Harder in our project space.

Swimming at Night!!!!!!!!! features five newly completed “skiagraphias” accompanied by a piece of flash fiction. While Harder’s work typically draws on cultural artifacts from Southwestern Ontario, these works began during a summer residency in Michigan situated at a bow along the Kalamazoo River where the idyllic light is said to have attracted artists to its shores for over 100 years. Harder inverts this tradition by using shadow as the subject and protagonist of her work. The drawings on canvas take their shape in the shade and are composed in response to the shadows traced atop their surface. Pitched like a tent or a sail, the skiagraphias also consider the canvas support material’s qualities and attendant associations.

Meghan Harder is an artist from St. Catharines, Ontario, working in the areas of drawing, writing, sound, sculpture and installation. She received her MFA from the University of Guelph and has exhibited at Hunt Gallery, Xpace Cultural Centre, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Forum of Kitchener and Area, The Plumb, and the Lincoln Museum.

Meghan Harder | Swimming at Night!!!!!!!!!