Feb 12th – Mar 2nd, 2026

Opening Reception: Saturday, Feb 14th, 2026

In Joe’s Lounge

JENNIFER LOVE | Family Ties: Reframing Memory (Mixed Media)

Family photo albums are inevitably replete with happy smiles and joyful remembrances, yet photography is not a passive medium; sometimes it also brings forth bittersweet aspects, considerations of conflict, and contradictions. Relationships can evolve and change over the years, even when some relatives are no longer with us. Jennifer Love explores familial bonds through the medium of non-traditional printmaking, monoprinting on a gel plate combined with image transfers. This process lives in the imperfect world between discipline and spontaneity, with the gel plate allowing for immediacy and imperfection. Prints carry traces of the hand, the plate, and the accident, mirroring the sometimes complex relationships forged while engaged in the business of growing up. Love’s exhibition considers how an image may reinforce or reshape familial ties. 

Jennifer Love is a local artist working in the medium of non-traditional printmaking. Love grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. Following university she spent 16 years in Australia, then returned to Canada and settled in BC. She has been a crafts supplies store co-owner, a textile arts instructor, a librarian, a book indexer and copy editor, a marina co-owner and operator, and for the last 10 years or so, a print artist and instructor. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Sunshine Coast and on the Lower Mainland. Love would like to acknowledge all of the individuals who took the original photographs upon which the work in this exhibition was based. Many are unknown or forgotten but they include: Karen, Marthe, Pat and Doug Love, Robert Keziere, and Ned Vani.