About the Exhibition Sara Angelucci transforms found photographs and creates images exposing the cultural and historical conditions outside the image frame, bringing attention to the social forces that generate the language of photography. Undergrowth brings together several bodies of work produced over the last decade that examine the ways in which photographic practices have contributed to the […]
About the Exhibition Chun Hua Catherine Dong brings together two major performance and photographic series by the Chinese-born, Montreal-based artist—Skin Deep (2014–20) and I Have Been There (2015–ongoing)—along with a selection of recent VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality), and 3D-printed works that address themes of diaspora, gender, and belonging. Dong reinterprets traditional Chinese symbols and practices to […]
About the Exhibition Janet Jones and Michel Daigneault are contemporary painters who question and challenge our understanding of abstraction. Aware of and informed by historical and formal definitions of the genre, they see abstraction as moving beyond specific movements to convey broader meaning today. Both artists look to abstraction as a way to explore different realities, or […]
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 […]
