The West Broadway BIZ is excited to partner with Wall to Wall Mural and Culture Festival once again to bring more art to our neighbourhood. This year has some very exciting additions! We hope you’ll go check them out for yourself – and don’t forget to tag us if you snap a good photo or two! @westbroadwaybiz
Efemena Ogboru
2022
Winnipeg
Sherbrook Inn
685 Westminster
(South-facing wall)
West Broadway BIZ
Efemena Ogboru was born in 1999. She was born and raised in Abuja, Nigeria until 2017 where she moved to Canada to pursue a degree in Fine arts at the University of Manitoba. She is an interdisciplinary artist who works with acrylics, oil paint, collages and digital works. She specializes with portraits and focuses on skin texture and the different tones in the skin. She has always had a passion for drawing from a young age having grown up around different types of artist. She learnt how to work with oil paint from a professional oil paint Nigerian artist in 2016 and in 2018 she started learning graphic design. She has participated in an exhibition to help raise funds for orphans in Uganda, she has also participated in the art Olympia 2019 competition and she has been selling her paintings and prints for over 6 years. She enjoys experimenting with different media and will continue to explore different drawing and painting techniques in the future.
Efemena is a part of the STEPS Public Art CreateSpace Public Art Residency Program
Hannah Reimer
2022
Winnipeg
Chip’s Vintage
143 Sherbrook
West Broadway BIZ
I am a Treaty 1-based multidisciplinary artist with a BFA (HON.) from the School of Art, University of Manitoba. Texture, pattern, and hands-on processes play a crucial role in my practice, which in the past has manifested through experiments with fabric, silkscreen, ceramics, and painting. A thread through all of my work is the contemplation of the soft architecture of fabric folds, and how my portrayals of them hover between abstract and representational.
Currently, I am navigating my own naiveté in digital media and how what I learn can inform my “analog” art. Allowing tools and programs I am unfamiliar with to manipulate a scanned image of a painting that I have physically made does not abandon authorship but rather creates a dialogue between myself and technology. My recent work pushes back and forth between analogue and digital art, and how putting an image through a process that deteriorates it legitimizes the mistakes it already had. To take this process further, I like to play a game of telephone with my pieces, revisiting familiar shapes and patterns and putting it through a process of scanning, tracing, and repeating to create a new image.
“Year of the Tiger”
Kyla Yin James
2021
Vancouver
685 Westminster
(South-facing wall)
West Broadway BIZ
Kyla Yin James (they/them) is an illustrator and designer whose work is inspired by mythology, the unconscious, subcultures, speculative fiction, and sociopolitical systems. Their work is filled with symbolism that creates surreal and speculative scenes questioning the status quo. They have a mural on display as a part of Vancouver Mural Fest and are currently working on their debut graphic novel. Kyla’s work has been featured in publications including Creative Boom, ROOM Magazine, Ricepaper Magazine, and Loose Lips. They have also worked with The Writer’s Union of Canada, InwithForward, Vancouver Foundation, Good Night Out Vancouver, and the James Black Gallery. Through their work, Kyla dissects and reassembles how they approach the different thought worlds they grew up in. Kyla describes their practice as thinking and feeling out loud, sorting through the symbols and ideas they’ve encountered.
Kyla is a part of the STEPS Public Art CreateSpace Public Art Residency Program
“As Long as the River Flows”
Nadya Crossman
2022
Winnipeg
116 Sherbrook
(East & North-facing walls)
West Broadway BIZ
Nadya Crossman-Serb is a Métis & Libyan multidisciplinary artist who
is inspired by the natural landscapes of Treaty 1, specifically the waterways which flow through the land as she has spent 20 years paddling on the Red, Assiniboine, and Seine Rivers. These bodies of water are home to her and often are the foundation of her art, using beadwork, sewing, and painting. Alongside the influences of nature, Nadya bridges her family backgrounds by including traditional Métis beadwork and Libyan textiles in her projects. Nadya currently resides in Winnipeg and is working on her Indigenous Studies degree, as well as working with Winnipeg Trails and Waterways Recreation as a program leader, running outdoor recreation programs for Indigenous youth.