Milestone Nerve
May 17th - August 31st, 2025
The Visual Art Centre of Clarington

Yan Wen Chang
Andrew Harding
Brandon Fujimagari
Philip Leonard Ocampo
Josi Smit

Curatorial Team: Megan Kammerer, Samantha Lance, and Philip Leonard Ocampo


Gathering a selection of sculptures, paintings, images, and site-specific interventions, Milestone Nerve adopts tenacity as essential to witnessing, navigating, and making sense of precarious generational shifts, collective upheaval and reckoning. This group exhibition poses how we might firmly orient ourselves in a world that changes continuously, suddenly, and even catastrophically.

This exhibition expands upon the research, practices, and processes first explored in The Bald Eagle’s Claw, a group exhibition which took place at Xpace Cultural Centre in 2019. As more than half a decade has passed since the first incarnation of this conversation, Milestone Nerve reunites the work of Andrew Harding, Brandon Fujimagari, Yan Wen Chang, Josi Smit, and Philip Leonard Ocampo as an exercise in longform dialogue, eventual returns, and personal/artistic growth.

As an arena wherein they may steadfastly situate themselves at a new nexus point, the artists of this exhibition once again gaze upward and outward towards the unknown horizon. Forging a new benchmark in personal and collective time (milestone) necessitates both bold defiance (nerve) and uncertainty (nervous) interlaced. If the world changes, then so do we.

Photos Courtesy of LF Documentation


Image Credit: Spectators gather to witness what would become Space Shuttle Columbia’s launch into the unknowns of outer space before its tragic crash upon its return on February 1st, 2003. (CC0)








Brandon Fujimagari
CARCHARIAS (ADZE, PICK, AXE, HAMMER, CLUB)
Clay, acrylic
Dimensions Variable
2025


Left:
Brandon Fujimagari
SHARON TATE, VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, ORIGINAL
Gelatin silver print
3 x 4 ft
1968


Josi Smit
Rows and floes I may never know
Reactive prints on silk habotai, clothesline, laundry basket, wind, sunlight.
Dimensions Variable
2025


Josi Smit
All things must
Wood, vase, tulip, chrome table frame
14 x 14.5 x 25 inches
2025


Key Dawn 
House paint, screws, graphite, and acryla gouache on images adhered to laser cut wood
Dimensions Variable
2025



Brandon Fujimagari
VERDA (011, 006)
Oil, pigment, cardboard, muslin
12 x 8 inches
2025


Brandon Fujimagari
CADMIUM TARAVAL (02, 04, 06, 07)
Oil, pigment, chalk on muslin
Dimensions Variable
2020




Andrew Harding
Pieces of you
aluminum, printed vinyl photographs, aircraft cable
Dimensions variable
2025


Brandon Fujimagari
PAMELA
Leather, clay, acrylic, thread, steel rivets
Approx. 11.5 x 47 x 5 inches
2025

Brandon Fujimagari
SHARON TATE, VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, ORIGINAL
Gelatin silver print
10 x 8 inches
1968


Yan Wen Chang
Gillian’s Conspiracy (Portrait of Selves at Final Destination)
oil and gouache on canvas
49.5 x 82.75 inches / 125.73 X 210.185cm
2025
Courtesy of Susan Hobbs Gallery


Yan Wen Chang
Gillian's Dilemma (Portrait of Selves at Convergence)
oil and gouache on canvas
49.5 x 82.75 inches / 125.73 X 210.185cm
2025
Courtesy of Susan Hobbs Gallery


Josi Smit
Fernleaf Crescent
Blinds, sunlight.
Dimensions Variable
2025


Chronos’ Sickle (Navigation Ver.)
Acryla gouache on photograph adhered to wood panel
11” x 14”
2025


Josi Smit
Rows and floes I may never know
Reactive prints on silk habotai, clothesline, laundry basket, wind, sunlight.
Dimensions Variable
2025