Tariq Hassan Gordon

Tariq Hassan Gordon in front of Ron Benner's photographic garden installation "As the Crow Flies" at Museum London, 2016

Tariq Hassan Gordon was a child of the art community in London, Ontario. His parents, Jamelie Hassan and Dave Gordon, as well as their future life partners, Ron Benner and Dorene Inglis, are artists, as well as many of their friends.

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in July 2020, Tariq working with Ron and Jamelie re-envisioned the Embassy Cultural House (ECH) as a virtual art space and website to re-unite the arts community from the ECH era (1983-1990). Visit his website for more information. You can also read about Tariq growing up in the London Arts Community.

Tariq sitting on one of Victoria Regis floating sculptures by Jamelie Hassan, installation "Swamp in the Forest City", FCG, London, Ontario, 1978

Tariq's sons, Zein and Kian, clearing soldier plants from Ron Benner's photographic garden installation, Museum London, London, Ontario, 2016

CURATORIAL ADVISORS:  Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner
WEB DESIGN: Tariq Hassan Gordon & Jade Williamson
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Andreas Buchwaldt, Matthew Dawkins, Charlotte Egan, Ira Kazi, Shelley Kopp, Olivia Mossuto, Niloufar Salimi, Mackenzie Smith, Michelle Wilson, and Jade Williamson
EMBASSY CULTURAL HOUSE ADVISORY CIRCLE:
Samer Abdelnour, Wyn Geleynse, Fern Helfand, S F Ho, Lorraine Klaasen, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou and Dan Smoke,  and Lucas Stenning

OUR STORY
Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. Other former members of the board were: Debrann Eastabrook, Henry Eastabrook, Sharron Forrest, Wyn Geleynse, Janice Gurney, Jean Hay (1929 - 2008), Doug Mitchell, Kim Moodie, Gerard Pas, Peter Rist, Wanda Sawicki, Jean Spence and Jennie White.

In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website.

London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties.

Tariq Hassan Gordon

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