About the Exhibition Refracting the Lens is a two-part exhibition marking the Varley Art Gallery of Markham’s twenty-fifth anniversary. Part I: February 4, 2022 to September 4, 2022 Featuring the work of Shuvinai Ashoona, Franklin Carmichael, Emily Carr, A. J. Casson, Maurice Cullen, Kathleen Daly, Clarence Gagnon, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, F. H. Johnston, […]
About the Exhibition For the past several years, Montreal-based artist Karen Tam 譚嘉文 has searched for traces of Lee Chao Nam 李趙南. Lee was a Chinese Canadian painter who lived in Victoria, British Columbia in the 1930s. Little is known about Lee’s life and artistic practice. Having first discovered Lee in the journals of Canadian painter Emily Carr (1871–1945), Tam […]
About the Exhibition Elusive Desires traces the intimacies and (be)longings of two queer Asian diasporic artists: Ness Lee (they/she) and Florence Yee (they/theirs). Both descendants of the Chinese diaspora (Hakka and Cantonese, respectively), Lee and Yee queer mythologies of the nation, settler colonial imaginaries that pervade Canadian art history, and trouble notions of seamless assimilation into […]
About the Exhibition Can we recollect past emotion-spatial experiences for the purpose of some attempt at representation? Can we go back to the past terrains and past encounters which are mapped inside us and which colour our present in ways which we cannot easily feel or say?– Owain Jones [De]/[Re]constructing place explores the act of […]
About the Exhibition Jessica Thalmann is attracted to the limits of photography and the ways in which she can push the parameters of the medium both formally and conceptually. She is not interested in using the camera merely to document, but as a tool to explore how images can be de-constructed and re-contextualized. As seen […]
Luke Parnell: Repeat the Chorus Three Times was awarded the 2021 Exhibition of the Year Award (Budget under $10,000) from Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries (GOG) About the Exhibition With a sculpture and painting practice rooted in traditional Northwest Coast design, Luke Parnell contrasts these formal aesthetic elements with personal and contemporary concerns. His new installation, Repeat the […]
About the Exhibition Artists: Léon Bellefleur (1910–2007), Ronald Bloore (1925–2009), David Bolduc (1945– 2010), Jack Bush (1909–1977), Tom Hodgson (1924–2006), Jock Macdonald (1897–1960), Fernand Leduc (1916-2014), Ronald Martin (b. 1943), L.A.C. Panton (1894–1954), Jean-Paul Riopelle (1923–2002), William Ronald (1926–1998), David Urban (b.1966) Abstract painting exists free from the boundaries of what we can see or […]
About the Exhibition Artists: William Berczy (1744–1813), John William Beatty (1869–1941), Ted Bieler, Neville Clarke, Kathleen Daly (1898–1994), Alma Duncan (1917–2004), Atungauyak Eeseemailee (1923–1989), Sorel Etrog (1933–2014), Audrey Garwood (1927–2004), A. Y. Jackson (1882–1974), Kiakshuk (1886–1966), Daphne Odjig (1919–2016), Napachie Pootoogook (1938–2002), Charlotte Price (1796–1868), Pudlo Pudlat (1916–1992), Christina Sealey, Yvonne Singer, Dorothy Stevens (1888–1966), […]
About the Exhibition “If you[‘d] like a drink, then a Klein bottle is not a recommended receptacle. It may look vaguely like a bottle, but it doesn’t enclose any volume, which means that it can’t actually hold any liquid. Whatever you pour “in” will just come back out again.” —Marianne Freiberger filling the Klein bottle […]
About the Exhibition In her first project as the Varley Art Gallery of Markham’s 2020 Community-Artist-in-Residence, Annie Wong explores a nuanced sense of nostalgia and cultural survival embodied by the everyday objects specific to the making of a Chinese home. These objects range from kitchen staples, such as dried ingredients typical of Chinese soups, to collections […]
