About the Exhibition Tout-Monde: Markham seeks to engage with the delicate, yet timely discourse about encountering and representing the other. The project is inspired by the ideas of Martiniquais poet and philosopher Edouard Glissant (1928 – 2011). Building on his in-depth explorations of the history of slavery, and of créolisation, Glissant imagined le Tout-Monde (“the whole-world”) […]
About the Exhibition A studio plays an important role in an artist’s creative process. It is a space where artworks are created, but it is also an area for research, experimentation and contemplation. A studio can be an entire room, a single wall or even the corner of a kitchen table. Over time, the studio […]
About the Exhibition In her interdisciplinary practice, Nava Waxman combines elements of performance, dance and the visual arts (namely painting, drawing, found objects and photography) to create site-specific artworks and installations. Her work, regardless of the medium selected, is informed by her interest in the dualities of order and chaos, continuity and change, and rules […]
About the Exhibition Ululations, known in Arabic as zaghareet, are loud, rhythmical, high-pitched howls capable of expressing lamentation, joy or reverence. When presented by multiple voices, zaghareet recall the pagan worship of hidden gods that play just beneath the surface of our collective consciousness. Their piercing sound transports us to a time when language was […]
About the Exhibition Artists: Henri Beau (1863-1949), George Théodore Berthon (1806-1892), Franklin Brownell (1857-1946), Emily Coonan (1885-1971), William M. Cutts (1857-1943), Edmond Dyonnet (1859-1954), Charles Goldhamer (1903-1985), Théophile Hamel (1817-1870), Robert Harris (1849-1919), Adrien Hébert (1890-1967), Paul Kane (1810-1871), Cornelius Krieghoff (1815-1872), James Löffler (c.1814-c.1861), Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith (1846-1923), Laura Muntz Lyall (1860-1930), Paul Peel […]
About the Exhibition “The taut thread… was the precursor of the drawn line of architectural design, whose straightness was compared to that of a ray of light. Sixteenth century treatises on perspective even depicted sight lines as lines of tightly stretched thread, but with loose ends that betrayed their nature.” – Tim Ingold Canadian artists […]
Moving through darkness into the clearing wins Exhibition of the Year (Budget under $10,000) at the 2019 GOG Awards! About the Exhibition In F. H. Varley’s Gothic Arches at Doon, c.1948-49, slender tree trunks form a fence-like barrier between the brown earth of the forest floor and the blue of the sky beyond. The light […]
About the Exhibition Ilze Briede, Monica Bujas, Phil Delisle, Esther Catherine Gauthier, Neil Harrison, Miles Ingrassia, Katika Marczell, Ella Dawn McGeough, Naz Rahbar, Ella Tetrault. Visual arts programs at York University, at the Masters or Doctorate level, encourage students to develop their artistic practice independently within a critical and theoretical environment. York’s studio setting inspires […]
About the Exhibition Artists: Cyril Barraud (1977–1965), Alfred Bastien (1873–1955), William Beatty (1869–1941), Alan Beddoe (1873–1975), R. Caton Woodville (1856–1927), S. Chatwood Burton (1881–1947), Douglas Culham (1886–?), Maurice Cullen (1866–1934), Kenneth Forbes (1892–1980), Ernest Fosbery (1874–1960), William Howchin (1888–?), Herbert Hughes–Stanton (1870–1937), A. Y. Jackson (1882–1974), August John (1878–1961), Frank Johnston (1888–1949), Arthur Keelor (1890–1953), […]
About the Exhibition A woman’s hand weaves in and out of the tall grasses growing along a riverbed. The clap of a beaver’s tail thunders upon the water’s surface, the sound reverberating into the distance. Nearby, concentric circles appear as particles of matter disturb the river’s otherwise calm body. The roots of mother trees extend […]
