The Family Long

Welcome to The Family Long, an exhibition featuring Molly, Ricky, and Fern Long.

Molly Long, the daughter, creates contemporary invisionings of Métis embroidery and beadwork through murals, paintings, fashion and tattoos. She has never formally trained but comes from many generations of artists and makers. Molly identifies a LGBTQ2S+ and is of Metis heritage.

Ricky Long, the dad, is also a self-taught artist. He is a father, grandfather, husband, auto mechanic, skateboarder, collector, hoarder, punk, recovering alcoholic, and all around nice human. “I like to take found objects and arrange them into visual objects of art. Collage is a main practice. Finding old photographs and cutting them up into some satirical observations. I will take a photo and add paint making the image colorful and unrecognizable. I use acrylics and oil pastels. I add words to collage making the viewer laugh or maybe think about it. Often I will take old photographs of children and give them cigarettes, or old people and give them rotten teeth. Frequently my portraits will have black spaces for eyeballs simply because I can’t paint a good looking eyeball.”

Fern Long, the mom, is formally trained who has a practice that moves between painting, photography and collage. Making collages and mixed media assemblages as a way to process her life as a mother, daughter, grandmother, and a postie as well as a way to respond to the epic saga unfolding daily in the world at large.