Summer Graduate Exhibitions
Natasha Beaudoin: Refracted Realities
June 4 – July 3, 2026
Opening Reception: June 4, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Natasha Beaudoin, Wordle 1,208 5/6, 2025, oil, airbrush, chalk pastel, and oil pastel on canvas, 203 x 203 cm
Refracted Realities expresses how painting can engage the emotional and psychological conditions of contemporary digital life. The exhibition draws on the visual language of historical paintings, particularly its use of dramatic light and shadow, and recontextualizes it through the cultures shaped by screens and social media. Through portraits of friends and chosen family, the work considers how experiences of intimacy, memory, and presence are shaped by both physical and virtual forms of connection.
The paintings incorporate saturated colour, areas of blur, and pixel-like distortions to reflect the ways images circulate and transform online. These visual strategies point to the instability of identity in digital spaces, where self-presentation is continuously edited, shared, and reinterpreted. At the same time, the work emphasizes the emotional weight that these mediated images can carry, particularly within close relationships.
By bringing together historical painting methods and contemporary digital aesthetics, the exhibition positions painting as a space for reflection on authenticity, representation, and connection. It suggests that even within highly mediated environments, painting can offer a sustained and material encounter with the complexities of selfhood and interpersonal experience.
Biography
Natasha Beaudoin (b.1999) is an emerging artist whose practice explores portraiture, digital identity, and mediated intimacy. Working in oil, pastel, airbrush, and reflective materials, she translates screen-based imagery into tactile paintings shaped by memory, friendship, and contemporary visual culture. Her work draws on art history while responding to the aesthetics of social media, gaming, and post-digital life, creating images that bridge classical technique and the fragmented experience of the present. Raised in Oakville, Ontario, Natasha holds a Graduate Arts Management degree and BFA Honours from Queen's University. Her work has been shown across southern Ontario, most notably at the Art Gallery of Mississauga Juried Exhibition and at the City of Mississauga's Riverwood Gallery.
Natasha Beaudoin is an MFA candidate in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University. Refracted Realities is her MFA Thesis Exhibition.
Eric Allan Cameron: Distant Sun
June 4 – July 3, 2026
Opening Reception: June 4, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Eric Allen Cameron, Night Sight, 2025, oil on linen on panel, 22.9 x 30.5 cm
Distant Sun brings together new oil paintings by Eric Allan Cameron that distill night skies, distant horizons, and bodies of water into restrained, atmospheric compositions. Working at an intimate scale, Cameron divides the picture plane into fields of near-total darkness, their compositions reduced to the barest essentials: a horizon line, a deep ground, a scatter of faint light against an enveloping night sky.
Cameron approaches painting as a site for meditation rather than depiction. His durational process of layering, sanding, and reworking discloses the gradual accretion of time within each painting's surface. Earlier states seep through successive layers of pigment, producing a palimpsest in which presence and absence are held in sustained tension. Duration here is not incidental but structural: the accumulation of time made visible as tone.
It is Cameron's engagement with the interval between sensing and understanding that gives the works their particular quality of stillness. These near-monochromatic fields—dark, spare, and quietly luminous—function less as representations than as atmospheric conditions that slow the act of looking and hold meaning provisionally open. Memory operates here not as narrative but as tone, conveyed through subtle shifts of light, colour, and spatial depth.
Biography
Eric Allan Cameron is originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, situated on Treaty 1 Territory and is currently based in Southwestern Ontario. His small-scale paintings explore the atmospheric terrain between inner experience and the external world, holding traces of memory, emotion, and remnants of lived experience. Cameron earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) from the School of Art at the University of Manitoba. His work has been exhibited across Canada, most recently at Galerie Eli Kerr in Montréal, MKG127 in Toronto, and at Art Toronto. He was featured in a solo presentation at the 11th edition of NADA New York. Cameron's paintings are held in private collections internationally.
Eric Allan Cameron is an MFA candidate in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University. Distant Sun is his MFA Thesis Exhibition.
Graduate student exhibitions at McIntosh Gallery are presented in memory of King's College alumnus Gregory Franklin Child through the generous support of Western University Arts and Humanities alumni Paula Case Child and Timothy Child.
