Oct 8 | Lunch and Learn with Stanzie Tooth
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
12:30 to 1:30 PM
Free | Online | Zoom link provided upon registration
About the Program
Take your lunch break with us and join a free online talk with Stanzie Tooth, featured artist from the Varley Art Gallery’s fall exhibition Sights of Convergence. This session offers insight into Tooth’s creative process and current work.
About the Artist
Stanzie Tooth‘s paintings are deeply intertwined with the forests of southern Ontario, where she spent her formative years. Her accumulated bodies of work draw inspiration from the rich tapestry of art history yet strive to capture a narrative that resonates with a more bodily and intersectional experience.
Tooth earned her BFA from OCAD University and obtained an MFA with distinction from the University of Ottawa. In 2015, she was honoured with the Joseph Plaskett Award for Painting, facilitating her residencies in Berlin, Iceland, Greece, and Italy. Tooth’s contributions have been recognized by Canadian Art Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Now Magazine. Her paintings are included in private and corporate collections, such as The Royal Bank, Toronto Dominion Bank, A.T. Tolley Collection, Equitable Bank, Google Collection, the City of Ottawa, and St. Michael’s Hospital. Tooth is based in Toronto, Canada.
About the Exhibition
Sights of Convergence features work by Jess Riva Cooper (Toronto, ON), Gabriela García-Luna (Saskatoon, SK), and Stanzie Tooth (Toronto, ON). Each artist brings a distinct material practice and set of concerns to their work, yet all explore the intimate entanglement of human and natural worlds. Rather than treating nature as a passive backdrop, their works invite us to consider a more nuanced, reciprocal exchange, one shaped by perception, memory, and lived experience. Beneath the surface, unsettling realities emerge: anxiety, tension, loss, and the shadow of ecological catastrophe. In this shared space, the gallery becomes a meeting ground, where diverse expressions converge and conversations between works and ideas can take root, grow, and expand.
