Earthbound
Steven Beckly

Earthbound, co-presented by Bunker 2 and The Bentway, is an exhibition of new works by Toronto-based artist Steven Beckly. Cultivating moments of closeness and intimacy, Beckly’s images straddle photography and sculpture. In Earthbound, various figures are entwined in a mythic botanical world. Located inside The Bentway’s skate-rental shipping container, Beckly’s photographs take on three-dimensional forms shaped by their unique habitat. Printed on various materials — opaque and translucent, hard and soft — they reflect an ethos of light, renewal, and transformation. Amid a rapidly changing landscape, Earthbound points to our primordial beginnings to regenerate an intimacy with our natural environment.

Part of The Bentway’s Fall Art Exhibition If, But, What If?

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Steven Beckly is a Chinese-born artist and photographer. Recent solo exhibitions include Meirenyu at Daniel Faria Gallery (Toronto) and A tender touch can bend the straightest of things at Eastern Edge Gallery (St. John’s). Currently, Beckly’s work is included in forward motion at the Small Arms Inspection Building (Mississauga) and It Can Only Be This Place at the Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto (Scarborough). Beckly received his MFA from the University of Guelph.

With generous support from the Ontario Arts Council.