Last chance to see Blurred Boundaries, this Saturday, May 16th 12-3pm at our closing reception.
Blurred Boundaries is a collaborative exhibition by Selené Huff (Canada) and Jessalyn Finch (Minnesota, US) that brings together large-scale drawing and sculpture to explore the body as both form and environment. Through immersive charcoal drawings and sculptural works in steel and cardboard, the exhibition invites viewers into a space shaped by movement, memory, and the shifting nature of identity.
Through biomorphic forms, gestural mark-making, and sculptural interventions, the exhibition reimagines the female body as fluid, shifting, and deeply interconnected with memory, identity, and environment. Huff’s forged steel works, created from reclaimed industrial materials, bring strength and resilience into dialogue with Finch’s paper-based forms, which evoke vulnerability, movement, and transformation.
Thank you to everyone who joined us last Saturday for the artist talk and screening of Embodied Landscapes in conjunction with Blurred Boundaries ✨
Bringing together large-scale drawing and sculpture, the exhibition explores the body as both form and environment — shaped by movement, memory, and shifting identity. Through paper, steel, and cardboard, the works of @selenehuff and @jessalynfinch reimagine the female body as evolving, resilient, and elemental.
So grateful for the thoughtful conversations, generous presence, and beautiful energy in the space
Join us on May 9th at 1:00pm for the Artist Talk with Huff and Finch.
Closing reception on May 16th 12-3pm
Blurred Boundaries is a collaborative exhibition by Selené Huff (Canada) and Jessalyn Finch (Minnesota, US) that brings together large-scale drawing and sculpture to explore the body as both form and environment. Through immersive charcoal drawings and sculptural works in steel and cardboard, the exhibition invites viewers into a space shaped by movement, memory, and the shifting nature of identity.
Through biomorphic forms, gestural mark-making, and sculptural interventions, the exhibition reimagines the female body as fluid, shifting, and deeply interconnected with memory, identity, and environment. Huff’s forged steel works, created from reclaimed industrial materials, bring strength and resilience into dialogue with Finch’s paper-based forms, which evoke vulnerability, movement, and transformation.
Meet Selené Huff, a visual artist based in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada (Treaty 6 and 7 Territory: the ancestral home of the Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy), Tsuut’ina, Stoney Nakoda, Cree, Saulteaux, and Métis peoples). Huff’s sculptures transform industrial detritus into abstract forms that evoke the female body and embodied experience. A former aerospace welder, Huff holds a Journeyperson’s ticket in welding from NAIT (2016) and earned her MFA in Sculpture from the University of Alberta in 2020.
Drawing on her technical background and artistic training, Huff’s creative research explores the intersections of industrial labor, material memory, and the physical form. Utilizing salvaged steel sourced from Albertan scrap yards, she employs forging, casting and fabrication techniques to produce biomorphic sculptures that interrogate assumptions around strength, femininity, and materiality. Her work challenges the boundaries between body and object, creating tactile, abstract forms that reflect the resilience and complexity of lived experience.
Huff currently serves as a Sculpture Instructor and Visual Arts Technician at Red Deer Polytechnic and has previously taught sculpture courses at both Red Deer Polytechnic and the University of Alberta. She has exhibited her work across Alberta and in the United States. She has contributed to public art projects as a technician and assistant in both Canada and the UK.
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Join us for a special afternoon of art, conversation, and film with artists Selené Huff and Jessalyn Finch in celebration of Blurred Boundaries. This collaborative exhibition brings together large-scale drawing and sculpture to explore the body as both form and environment. Through paper, steel, and cardboard, the work invites viewers into a space shaped by movement, memory, and shifting identity, reimagining the female body as resilient and elemental.
At 1:00 PM, Huff and Finch will lead an Artist Talk discussing the ideas, materials, and collaborative process behind the exhibition.
Also featured throughout the afternoon is Embodied Landscapes, an award-winning short art film co-directed by Jessalyn Finch and recognized at the Berlin Indie Film Festival. Blurring the boundaries between dance, sculpture, drawing, and environment, the film follows a wanderer through landscapes of memory, belief, distortion, and release in a powerful meditation on transformation.
Film Screenings: 12:30 PM, 2:00 PM, and 2:30 PM
Opens today @bheartspace from 12-3pm. Blurred Boundaries brings together large-scale drawing and sculpture to explore the body as both form and environment. Through paper, steel, and cardboard, the exhibition invites viewers into a space shaped by movement, memory, and shifting identity, reimagining the female body as evolving, resilient, and elemental.
@selenehuff and @jessalynfinch
#artexhibition #drawing #sculpture
Hi all!
I'm thrilled to announce that @jessalynfinch and I have an exhibition at Bleeding Heart Art Space from 18th April to 16th May! Our reception is this Saturday, April 18th from 12-3 PM. I would love to see you there!!!
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FIX FIRE FORGE
🔎Zone 1: Researcher’s Eye
Where do craft technicians get their ideas? These artists are driven by curiosity, which pushes them beyond technical limits. They draw inspiration from their lives—time on wildfire patrols, in welding shops, or ceramic studios. Some repeat shapes in clay; others use steel from industrial sites. For them, art is a way to explore and question. Here, research means more than reading or sketching—it involves risk, repetition, and discovery in the studio.
Fix, Fire, Forge is the current exhibit at the Alberta Craft Edmonton Feature Gallery. The exhibit centres researcher-artists who explore themes through inquiry, practice, and exploration. It features works by Bridget Fairbank and Selené Huff, both of whom create complex pieces reflecting their experiences and perspectives.
Images:
There is a density to the nature of things... by Bridget Fairbank
Entanglement by Selené Huff
#AlbertaCraft #FixFireForge #CuratorView #YegExhibition #yeg
Next up in our celebrations of international women's week is the always smiling Selene Huff!
In her own words:
I currently balance teaching/supporting technical skills of RDP VA students with instructing sculpture 1 and 3D fundamentals.
I like working with fire and goo. Anything messy, hazardous, or disgusting- preferably all of the above, all at once. My sculptural practice centers on blacksmithing, welding, metal fabrication, and casting processes, primarily using steel sourced from Albertan scrap yards. My work examines bodily references embedded within industrial equipment through the creation of biomorphic forms out of industrial detritus. Current research investigates intersections of historical metalworking traditions, the female body, witchcraft, reclaiming processes historically associated with labour and embodied knowledge.
Questionnaire:
Favourite studio snack?
Hmmm...probably pickles and cheese....but I like licking my artwork too.
What do you love doing when you aren't in the studio?
I love going to grocery stores, camping in the desert/badlands and embarking on new construction projects I know I won't
complete.
What do you wish you knew as a student?
There are a million right answers to every problem.
Cherish your fellow creators- it is a rare, magical experience to work alongside folks who are as passionate as you are about what you do.
