Window Box Gallery @ Gallery 1313
December 1st, 2024 – February 26th, 2025
Opening
December 1st @ 5:45. Meeting at Gallery 1313 and moving to the Parkdale Library Auditorium (space and washrooms are accessible). Masks mandatory inside.
About
In the portal-like space of Gallery 1313’s Window Box Gallery, Sunshine Tormé Johnson’s holistic perspective and wealth of experience takes on the forms of critique, reflective celebration, and images of beyond-medical healing. Creating with a Housing First perspective compounded by personal experience, Sunshine’s work welcomes the viewer into the intimacies of working towards thriving in a disabled body mind within the land-based and infrastructural complexities of Tkaronto. Thank you to the Toronto Arts Council for their generous support.
About the Artist
Sunshine Torme Johnson (he/him) is a dynamic facilitator, artist, and community member. As a Black, disabled, gender-diverse and queer individual, he celebrates the uniqueness of his identity by embracing the fluidity that defines him through his art. Sunshine creates transformative pieces of multiple mediums including, but not limited to digital illustration, photography, videography, collaging and crafting. He often chooses to express himself artistically surrounding topics of community, de-colonizing, healing, human rights, equity and social justice. With a long history of navigating harmful systems as a marginalized person, all while living most of his life so far in poverty, Sunshine’s values are radically embedded in the ways he approaches art and community through love. He believes that harnessing our creativity both individually and together is an essential part of a transformative community that is rooted in equity, empowerment and connectedness.
SUPPORTED BY THE TORONTO ARTS COUNCIL
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