From October 22 to January 22, work by Professor Lisa Steele and Associate Professor Kim Tomczak will be on display in the exhibition The Long Time: 21st Century Art of Steele + Tomczak, curated by Paul Wong.

Central to the exhibit is the "…before I wake trilogy." The result of twelve years of work, it is comprised of three video components: We’re Getting Younger All The Time, Practicing Death, and Entranced.

“This monumental love story searches for the fountain of youth, surrenders to the idea of eternal sleep, and crosses the threshold of the hereafter,” writes Paul Wong. “It is poignant, chilling, and deeply personal.”

Other works in the exhibition include Becoming…, a 3-channel video installation that observes the built environments of Berlin, Vancouver and Toronto; The Miniatures, a series of video objects that offer trenchant phrases drenched in beauty; and the on-going photo/text series…bump in the night, a series of interviews with young people created with the cooperation of the Windsor Youth Centre and the Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation.

The Long Time: 21st Century Art of Steele + Tomczak exhibition launched with an opening reception on October 21, and a panel discussion on October 22 from 12PM to 4PM. The Art Gallery of Windsor is located at 401 Riverside Drive, and is regularly open Wednesday to Sunday, 11AM to 5PM.

Earlier this year, Steele and Tomczak were featured in Canadian Art’s 2016 Art School Smart Guide, which highlighted art schools in Canada that are "thinking outside the box." The Guide profiled the practice of Kim Tomczak and Lisa Steele as a way to introduce the work that goes on within the Daniels Faculty. “When we start a new project, we always submerge ourselves into the research, and as collaborators, we talk and argue a lot," say Tomczak and Steele. "Concentrating on the concepts being investigated — rather than obsessing about the materiality — helps refine the finished work. In our teaching, sometimes we have to teach a technical process, but the quicker we can move to the idea being mobilized, the better it is.”