SHARON LOCKHART

October 22, 2025 - January 7, 2026

Exhibition Celebration
December 3, 4 PM - 7 PM

Conversation with Sharon Lockhart and Kitty Scott
December 4, 2 PM - 3:30 PM 

Over the course of four summers spent on Newfoundland’s Fogo Island, at Canada’s easternmost reaches, Sharon Lockhart developed a new film and a series of photographs building upon core themes that have defined her career: an exploration of place and how people engage with landscapes, a durational approach to attention through extended static takes, and a long-term commitment to those who appear before her lens. This exhibition features her film installation, WINDWARD, in which the island’s striking geological formations, unique climate, and austere beauty are brought to life. The presentation also debuts her photographs, entitled Fogo Island Portrait Studio, picturing the island’s young residents.

During her 2022 residency with Fogo Island Arts, Lockhart encountered Colin Low’s film The Children of Fogo Island, which documented youth as they played, built and interacted in harmony with their community and environment. With Low’s work as a symbol of Fogo’s past, Lockhart created WINDWARD. A filmic exploration of the site’s present, this new work sees time as it shifts and envelops, surging and calming in pace with the ever-present winds that shape life on Fogo.

In WINDWARD, Lockhart carefully observes the island’s geography, capturing its youth in structured play amid fields of tall grass, volcanic rocks, and crashing waves. Through her lens, the sea, sky, land, light, and weather become essential in shaping a narrative across her subtly composed tableaux. Filmed on the island’s northern face—its windward end—the work takes cues from an unseen force: persistent gusts that descend uninterrupted from the Arctic, arriving on land as a presence inseparable from daily life. An inherited attunement to the environment, the ability to read and heed it, allows Lockhart’s subjects to enter into close exchange with their surroundings. Vastness takes hold as figures are made minute by their world. Moving in and out of sight, crossing the picture plane, the children of WINDWARD occupy Lockhart’s frames entirely, activating and informing their geography in scenes composed and choreographed for the camera. In concert with the film’s surging winds, balanced by moments of intense reprieve, Fogo Island’s elemental essence and its residents’ profound connection to the natural is brought to light.

The artist has also produced a series of photographs entitled Fogo Island Portrait Studio. The results of an open invitation extended by the artist, the images see the island’s children in static confrontations with the camera. Here, Lockhart presents her subjects in daylit portraits, their proximity countering their depiction in WINDWARD as figures subsumed by the landscape. Posed with striking directness, each child is seen asserting an agency within their material and environmental conditions, positioning them as active participants in their own futures.

WINDWARD is co-commissioned and co-produced by Shorefast/Fogo Island Arts, The Vega Foundation, and the National Gallery of Canada, with the support of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Courtesy the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin. © Sharon Lockhart, 2025.

The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Government of Canada and Government of Alberta.
 

Join us for an evening that redefines the possibilities of percussion. On the occasion of their 20th Anniversary, Chicago’s GRAMMY® Award-winning quartet Third Coast Percussion presents Time Pieces: The New Classical, a program that celebrates 20 years of genre-defying, award-winning music, including many of the ensemble’s 20th Anniversary commissions. Highlighting rhythm, history, and innovation, the concert reflects on percussion’s profound influence on classical music today.

Through works by Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Jessie Montgomery, Tigran Hamasyan, Clarice Assad, and electronic artist Jlin, each piece connects past and present — from Bach reimagined through electronic sound to new commissions by some of today’s leading composers.

Since forming at Northwestern University in 2005, Third Coast Percussion has become a driving force in contemporary music, praised for its “rare power” (Washington Post) and “inspirational sense of fun and curiosity” (Minnesota Star-Tribune). The ensemble’s 20th Anniversary tour includes new commissions, international residencies, and appearances across North America and Europe. 

Members

Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore 

Program

Danny Clay – Playbook: Teeth
Third Coast Percussion – Niagara
Clarice Assad – The Hero
Steve Reich – Music for Pieces of Wood
Jlin – Obscure
Philip Glass – Metamorphosis

Intermission

Jlin – Please Be Still
Jessie Montgomery – Lady Justice/Black Justice, The Song
Tigran Hamasyan – Sonata for Percussion
    Memories from Childhood
    Hymn
    23 for TCP

Reviews

“Third Coast Percussion continues to push percussion in new directions, blurring musical boundaries and beguiling new listeners.” — NPR Music

"Third Coast — which became the first-ever percussion ensemble to earn a Grammy Award with a win in 2017 — may have started as a group of students who just wanted to play more of the music they love. Two decades in, they are a dominant part of the new classical cannon."   —  WBEZ

“Third Coast Percussion play as if they’re a single, eight-armed organism.”  — The New York Times

"Atmospheric, impeccable, precise performances of minimalist music" — Concerto

“Third Coast Percussion is one of the most enterprising and creative ensembles working today.”  — WFMT

Join us for an evening of bold contemporary music as Ensemble Paramirabo performs a program of mostly minimalist works by today’s leading composers. United by a dedication to new music, the ensemble’s six members perform with a single voice that explores repetition, openness, and transformation.

Through works by Nicole Lizée, Nico Muhly, Dorothy Chang, Philippe Macnab-Séguin, Kai Kubota-Enright, and Missy Mazzoli, the concert invites listeners into sound worlds of texture and space, weaving pulse and stillness, analog and digital.

Taking its name from a work by Montreal composer Claude Vivier, Paramirabo has commissioned over 80 premieres, toured internationally, and been recognized with the Opus “Performer of the Year” prize and a JUNO nomination.

Members 

Jeffrey Stonehouse (flute & artistic director), Viviane Gosselin (cello), Gwénaëlle Ratouit (clarinets), Hubert Brizard (violin), Pamela Reimer (piano), Krystina Marcoux (percussion).

Program (approx. 61 mins)

Nicole Lizée – Music for Body Without Organs
Nico Muhly – Doublespeak
Dorothy Chang – Of All Things Elusive
Philippe Macnab-Séguin – It Was Inside You All Along
Kai Kubota-Enright – Spatial Communication of Dripstone
Missy Mazzoli – Still Life with Avalanche
Julius Eastman – Joy Boy (featuring Banff Musicians in Residence participants)

Reviews

“Montreal’s Ensemble Paramirabo quickly became known as one of the most innovative and accomplished new music ensembles in Canada.” - James O’Callaghan, Canadian League of Composers

“Ensemble Paramirabo has a firm commitment to quality chamber music, which, in the world of contemporary music, equates to total fearlessness… This ensemble is a rare gem in the city—born solely of creative inspiration, and their evolution as an up-and-coming musical force is not to be missed.” - Andrew Crust, Bachtrack