Fluent
Catherine Beaudette, David Clarkson,
Laura Millard, Georg Mühleck

August 8 — September 7, 2025
open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 12-6pm or by appointment

Opening Reception: Thursday, August 7th, 5-7pm

On one level, the artworks in FLUENT share a simple visual theme, all displaying images of fluidity; tide pools, melting ice, puddled spills, waves, and so on. On another, less literal level, they also exhibit ‘flow’ — smooth transitions deftly guiding viewers perceptions from one place to another, one subject to another, one emotion to another. Such shifts are intentional, introduced to purposefully create new paths between dispersed elements and significant to an interpretation of the work.

The show is organized by Hermes members, Catherine Beaudette and David Clarkson, who have invited two other artists, Laura Millard and Georg Mühleck, to also contribute examples of their recent thematically relevant work. Beaudette, Clarkson and Millard will be present at the opening reception.

Catherine Beaudette lives in Montreal, Quebec and Pictou, Nova Scotia, and taught at OCADU from 1989 to 2017. She is the founder of Bonavista Biennale and 2 Rooms Contemporary Art Projects, Newfoundland; Gallery 202; Pictou and co-founder, Loop Gallery, Toronto. She has exhibited and attended artist residencies in Canada, Europe, and the US. She received her MFA from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1998.

David Clarkson moved to Pictou, Nova Scotia in 2024 from Toronto, Ontario, where he has taught in the Faculty of Art at OCADU since receiving his MFA in 2012. Prior 2010, he lived in New York. He has shown his paintings, videos, and sculptures at many galleries and art institutions in Canada, the United States, Brazil, and Europe; and his writing about art has appeared in several national and international publications.

Laura Millard lives in Toronto, Ontario, and is an Associate Professor at OCADU. She has exhibited in a wide range of Canadian and international venues. She received a BFA from NSCAD University in 1983; an MFA from Concordia University in 1992; and has attended many unique artists residencies, including: the Arctic Circle Residency in Svalbard, and Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon.

Georg Mühleck lives in Koln, Germany, and the northern coast of Scotland, and occasionally, also in Toronto, Ontario. Since 1981, he has shown his work in a wide variety of galleries, and cultural institutions; in Canada, and the United States, Europe, the UK, and in Asia as well, in China, Malaysia, and Korea. He was originally trained during the 1970s as a typographer before turning to digital imaging in 1990.