COMING HOME – An Online Art Exhibition
Virtual Reception July 30 8:00 – 8:40 pm (email Phil Anderson for login details)
Gallery 1313 is pleased to present COMING HOME, a group curated exhibition to mark the gradual reopening of the gallery. After a lock down due to COVID 19 we are anxious to return to some kind of normal life and present some hope for the future.
Coming Home could be the return to normal life post COVID -19 or just a depiction of what home means to the artist. Is it a place of comfort? Is it a distant place? How do we envision coming home? A broad range on interpretations on this subject are presented here.
The show is curated by Phil Anderson, Gallery Director and assisted by Mariah Lamont –Lennox.
Shawn Postoff
- No Fly Zone
- 9″w x 10″h
- Stained glass on wood
- 2020
Eva Lewarne
Coming home is being with myself long enough to start to know myself and begin to feel comfortable in my own skin without distractions from other people and outside influence. This is what COVID isolation has allowed us to do, to introspect. These are paintings I did from this time.
“I turned To See My Face” was the first painting and resulted from my prolonged views in the mirror that allowed me to think about myself, my life, where I have been and what I regret.
Eva Lewarne BA MA AOCA
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Mikael Sandblom
‘The Way Back Home’ It’s based on a recent dream where I am in town, but I can’t find my way home. Buildings have disappeared and been replaced. I turn a familiar corner but it leads to streets I’ve never seen before. I have a map but I can’t find my place in it. It’s a dream about trying to find my way back to the way things were.
Mikael Sandblom
‘Liquid Cities’ Also based on recalled dream images. In this case I am on the Bathurst street bridge but it does not have an end. It just connects to other bridges in some strange impossible configuration. In the dream there’s the sound of a heavy, fast approaching train, but I can’t tell from what direction it’s coming from.
Lisa Anita Wegner
Wegner creates performances, installations, films and conceptual artworks. In parodying mass media by exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary society, Wegner makes works that can be seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem by-products of American superabundance and marketing.
Lisa Anita Wegner
Her works demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and often tells a story about the effects of global cultural interaction over the the twentieth century. It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own ‘cannibal’ and ‘civilized’ selves. By demonstrating the omnipresent lingering of a ‘corporate world’, she touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recognized, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations. Her works are saturated with obviousness, mental inertia, clichés and bad jokes. They question the coerciveness that is derived from the more profound meaning and the superficial aesthetic appearance of an image.
Martina Vrbanic
Artworks from my most recent art collection “Montage” are about combining different mediums and segments of realistic and abstract forms. This collection is inspired by nature – it’s energy, color pallet, shine, reflections, shapes and sounds. The nature is a place where I can easily connect with my inner self and find my inner piece. I love to explore different elements in my paintings: patterns, shadows, reflections, abstract and realistic forms etc. The elements I’ve taken from nature are incorporated together with simple forms and combined with abstract forms and different mediums.
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Kyle Yip
- Dream Painting A13
- Acrylic, gesso and varnish on canvas
- 48 × 36″
- 2020
The following body of work are exact replicas of visual art conceived and produced during the rapid-eye movement dream state of the artist. While the purpose of dreams are not completely understood, psychoanalysts believe they are the manifestations of our deepest desires and fears. They are the direct expression of imagination and utilize the most efficient language of symbolism and mythological archetypes.
Ayshia Taskin
When not pondering over food, mythology, symbolism and existential questions, Ayshia explores how the visceral elements of performance art initiate an environment ripe for collaboration, human connections and participation. Through the use of fun-filled self-reflection, humour-based awkwardness, instructions and absurdly playful aesthetic scenarios. Ayshia combines said elements to create experiences in the physical and virtual world.
Ayshia Taskin
As an Intermedia and Interdisciplinary artist, Ayshia uses a varied practice consisting of installation, sculpture, painting, Livestream performance art, moving image, printmaking, latex-based work and drawing to explore the multi-faceted relationship between society, mythology, food, and power structures. She completed her undergraduate degree at The University of Edinburgh and MFA in Contemporary Art Practice at Edinburgh College of Art. Ayshia’s work has been exhibited at local, national and international levels with projects presented in Italy, Greece, England, USA and Scotland.
Dan Nuttall
- PLANE TREES
- acrylic on archival paper
- 12 x 16”
In February of 2020, just before the pandemic changed everything, we travelled to the Cleveland Museum of Art with one of our dear friends. Being in an art gallery or museum anywhere around the world is always a “home away from home” for me. I take great comfort in the formal qualities of these types of spaces, the easy way that I breathe, the familiar brushstrokes of artists I admire. At the Cleveland Museum of Art I was struck by a painting by Vincent Van Gogh titled “The Large Plane Trees”. It seemed so very comforting – a peaceful street, an inviting home, the warm yellows and ochres of the fall-like colours. I recreated my sense of this painting when I got home, abstracting the house to houses, and placing them deeper within the trees, which I made more plentiful. I kept the sunset yellows and feeling of a landscape bathed in a setting sun. The painting now sits in my own home – a home within a home – a hearth of memory and much needed comfort.
Steve Stober
Where are you? Is this real or just a dream? Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Imagine a whole new world. It can be here, there or anywhere. It’s everywhere. There is no escape. The dawn of a new age is upon us. Embrace it and call it your own. Home sweet home.
- Website www.stevestober.com
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Steve Stober
Where are you? Is this real or just a dream? Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. Imagine a whole new world. It can be here, there or anywhere. It’s everywhere. There is no escape. The dawn of a new age is upon us. Embrace it and call it your own. Home sweet home.
- Website www.stevestober.com
- Instagram: stevestoberpho
Lois Schklar
I am Here
My art practice has been influenced by a vast collection of disparate objects accumulated over a lifetime. I continually use and reuse these objects in my work. Recently I have been making rattles for an exhibition, I am Here, originally scheduled for October 2020 at Red Head Gallery.
In traditional ceremonies of various cultures, rattles as noisemakers marked a rite of passage. They announced, I am Here. On a personal level, my rattles are symbols of affirmation while accepting the reality of transitioning into another stage of life. It is this affirmation that continues to intrigue, challenge and support me in my work and life.
Lois Schklar
I am Here
With Covid-19, the rattles have taken on a dual purpose. They not only represent personal power but have assumed the role of household guardians who safeguard my space, my home, from a chaotic and frightening world. They will remain my protectors until a return to a normal life post pandemic.
Grace Qian
Through a realistic painting practice, I counteract the experience of isolation. My process of art making, being influenced by my past, questions the idea of the self and how it plays into the world. In my work, I explore themes of closeness, intimacy and relationships to seek understandings of how to express vulnerability. As the object of my visual language is mainly those I am close with, pictured as their present selves, I study the fundamental qualities they share as human beings and experiences that connect them in time.
Grace Qian
These works not only confirm my place, but its position in relation to others. By exploring these individual experiences of isolation and vulnerability through portraiture, I understand that this is something that connects everyone together.
Jose Cituentes
- Distractions
- Mixed Media on Canvas
- 60 x 20 inches (Triptych 20 x 20″ each)
- 2020
Jose Cifuentes is a thirty-five-year-old mixed media abstract artist from Medellin, Colombia. Jose moved his life and practice to Toronto, Canada, to find inspiration for his current chapter of creation. Known for manifesting varied visual representations of freedom, his art is a mixture of thick knife strokes with free-hand illustrations on canvas and recycled surfaces. He collects and portrays moods and faces that are in vivid, visceral paint strokes, loose lines, deliberate drips and passionate splatters. All this to the great end of creating the ideal marriage of fine and urban art.
Jose Cituentes
- YOU ARE LIGHT
- 30 x 40 inches
- Mixed Media on Canvas
- 2020
Jose draws from his experience as an immigrant in the U.S.A, and now Canada, to express the authenticity of artistic freedom and the emotional havoc that surrounds it. To be an immigrant is to struggle in life with instability, but this also means embracing the realities of said struggle to grow bold, fearless and free. Jose continually defies the odds by shaking the conventional foundations of tradition seminal to the way of life in predominantly conservative countries such as Colombia and the United States.
“Coming home to me means visiting moments where we were free to love and trust each other, without distractions, and showing our true self without dualities.”
Shazia Ahmad
I am a recent graduate of Concordia University’s Studio Arts program (Major Painting and Drawing) with a previous undergraduate degree in Art History and History.
Shazia Ahmad
As a woman of an interfaith and mixed-race background, my practice and research interests are in the notions of home, family, and belonging, tied to the broader theme of otherness.
Brubey Hu
I revisit distant memories of my childhood home, which I then attempt to implant into the paintings.
Employing geometric shapes painted over two panels using masking tape, the visual duality is constructed within diptychs that juxtapose opaque acrylic colors and breathable reflections. Through subtractive simplification, the paintings are my attempt to discuss the notions of consensus and reconciliation. They transcend flat images or physical space and objects, and document introspective moments.
Lilianne Schneider
Coming Home – My Journey series
The Project includes 6 pictures of 8 x 5 inches Photography B/W In this body of work my reflection is an internal analysis of personal behaviour during the pandemic times, a search of the soul, the meditation over past actions, present thoughts to future commitments and expected connection to the natural landscape left behind. The internal transformation should lead us to make changes in our society and be prepare to advance into the next journey of our lives. Prints of the series are available Individually at $100 or the set of 6 prints at $600. Limited edition of 10.
Isaac Hoddle
- Pink Boat
Northern Ontario is land of heavy, dark winters. A place of terror for early settlers, devoid of mercy. Thunder Bay, a combination of two towns was once a fur trading post and a bustling port city founded on industry.
Isaac Hoddle
- House
A town of leathery skin and hard men. Since the advent of globalization, however, it has watched its youth move to bigger cities and its once proud identity fade. This project is an exploration of the physical manifestation of space, if you will, of Thunder bay’s identity. A place I call home..
Philip Hare
“ICE Crib” (2018) consists of a found bedspring from a child’s crib. Within each rectangular “cell” a black button is suspended by fishing line. Each button hangs in a blank space, separated by the wire of the frame. The button holes are like unblinking eyes on blank faces.
In the United States between October 1, 2017 and May 31, 2018 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) along with Customs Border Patrol (CBP) separated over 2,700 children from their families. As of June, 2019 over 2,000 children per day were being held in CBP facilities. The children are referred to as “unaccompanied minors” and housed in cramped cells or even chain link cages.
The U.S. is not the home these families had hoped for.
Holly Edwards
- Of Time And Place
- Acrylic paint and paper collage
- 24”x 30”
I am an abstract figurative artist using materials to intuitively respond to my environment and emotions. Through various medium and materials I strive to develop my art with integrity by continuously making a mark and responding to that impression.
Coming Home after the pandemic is returning to a life of uncertainty. I hope these figurative paintings capture the uneasy feeling of not knowing what to expect: Anxiety, longing, melancholy and loneliness.
Holly Edwards
- Reflecting
- acrylic paint
- 24”x 30”
My process involves creating art everyday, often painting in a series to work through an idea. I find open studio life drawing sessions move my work forward; as I respond viscerally to the models’ humanness, my realizations unanalyzed and honest. This openness to the quiet space is vital for creating work that is meaningful and revealing for me.
Rakefet Arieli
- Suitcases St.
- 2020
- Digital collage
With COVID-19 changing the world as we knew it, making the physical and emotional space feel constricted, “What You See” and “Suitcases St.” digital collages, were a capture of what I imagined isolation would feel like under varied circumstances.
Rakefet Arieli
- What You See
- 2020
- Digital collage
Not able to safely get to the studio and with no materials at home to work with, I used photos of different places and elements that I’ve taken over the years, to create that expression.
Arnie Lipsey
- Person to Person
- 30” X 24”
- Acrylic on Canvas
The paintings were finished just prior to the lockdown, but as all my work is about questions of identity, family dynamics and a re-examination of the past, surely they have a lot to do with “Coming Home”.
Arnie Lipsey
- Ladies In Waiting
- 30” X 24”
- Acrylic on Canvas
The paintings were finished just prior to the lockdown, but as all my work is about questions of identity, family dynamics and a re-examination of the past, surely they have a lot to do with “Coming Home”.
Amanda Lederle
- 234 Beverly
- 26cm x 18cm
- pen and ink
Amanda Lederle (they/them) is a Toronto-based artist and facilitator that has created emotional maps to explore the intangible feelings one experiences and illustrated residences to celebrate the places we call home.
- Instagram: @amandalederle
- Website: amandalederle.com
Amanda Lederle
- Centre Big Window Interior
- 26cm x 18cm
- pen and ink
Amanda Lederle (they/them) is a Toronto-based artist and facilitator that has created emotional maps to explore the intangible feelings one experiences and illustrated residences to celebrate the places we call home.
- Instagram: @amandalederle
- Website: amandalederle.com
Magida El-Kassis
A series of self portraits using art therapy as a form of expression. The time I spent alone the past few months have been the most productive days. I felt the urge to express my thoughts through photo and painting, exploring movement and shapes with emotions. Dealing with past emotions that were put on a shelf for too long.
Magida El-Kassis
I’m here alone,
trapped inside my head.
i call out.
-reaching out for something.
Catharine Mary Somerville-Wilson
- “Orange Sky”
- 2020
- acrylic on canvas
- 24”h x 36” w
Coming Home for me is returning to the landscape. This July sky reminds me of the years I happily spent in a harvest field in the Ottawa Valley before returning to the city and school in Toronto.
Carlos Fentanes
- “Melancholia”
- charcoal and graphite on paper
- 11″ x 8.5″
- 2018
I like the use of ballpoint pens, pencils and charcoal because you can find them anywhere: the concept of availability attracts me a lot and in the other hand I can have my entire workshop in a bag: I just need a pen and a sketchbook, do I need more freedom than that?
Carlos Fentanes
- “Stabat Mater”
- ball point pen on paper
- 17″ x 11″
- 2020
I’m a self taught artist and maybe I’m using a pen that I get free from a hotel but my journey it’s not about tools or materials, it’s about being creative.
Julie Robb
The work is a dreamscape. Surrealism and realism together. A macrocosm and a microcosm. A home inside a home; a world buffered inside a world; with the strength of composition to be easily enjoyed from a distance, and treasures to be revealed as one explores it closer and closer. It was the home I yearned for then, my hiraeth, a place that didn’t actually exist, but which I was homesick for. And it is the home I still crave now.
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Mina Nabaei
The meaning of concepts undergoes transition in a journey of life. Home is me, and I am Home! Here is in between, I am caught; look at the past to comprehend the present which interpenetrate each other to rebuild the Home. It seems there is no choice to escape from the history of the place which is connected with me. The place in the heart of life, related to the city I was born, grow up and live till I die.
Mina Nabaei
As an immigrant, the concept of the home creates and recreates momentarily, it seems I live in between; in the purlieus. Sometime they are equally powerful, shadow and light. Meanwhile the boundary is getting to be expanded and eventually the home is outstretched by a wide margin. By presenting the past and the history in the present, representation and interpretation of the place where I living, has been revealed. The comprehension of the past and the lost place is recreated by a new place; Home, has recalled a nostalgia for me; the past constantly is recalling to get me closer to the present; to my Home. The home as a new place is bearing on and on in between throughout a journey of photographing and I feel I always carry Home In; inside of me!
Jacques Desruisseaux
- Looking
- 30 x 20 in
- digital photography
Ces images représentent mon atelier et mon jardin en tant qu’espaces de paix. Ces endroits ont toujours été accueillant et rassurant. Ma place est un endroit de recueillement avec qui je passe à travers les situations avec sérénité.
Jacques Desruisseaux
- Studio in the Garden
- 30 x 20 in
- digital photography
These images represent my studio and my garden as spaces of peace. These places have always been welcoming and reassuring. My home is a place of meditation with witch I go through situations with serenity.
Ferda Dilmaghani
- 8″ x 10″
- oil
In these oil paintings I use personal colours such as colourful grays, pink and purple. In this series of paintings I am practicing to reach colour perspective.
Atia Pokorny
- Who Comes Who Leaves
- archival inkjet print
- 20″ x 15″ (image)
Coming Home … Home can have many meanings, both literal and symbolic. Coming home is about continuity, about re-living one’s memories wherever the actual home is. I spent the first half of my life in one country and the second half in another.
Atia Pokorny
- The Honeybees Were Wild
- archival inkjet print
- 22″ x 16″ (image)
Where is “home” then? It is where my emotional ties are, where my family is. These images are not a geographical description of my home but the emotional one.
Nikole McGregor & Simone Northey
“The encounter” as a subject matter became relevant. In a call to relational art, we want to share our intimate virtual space with the public. However, unlike relational art, this project began solely for the participating artists, as a way to maintain and develop our closeness when in-person contact is unavailable.
Nikole McGregor & Simone Northey
The project consists of two parts: our weekly audio messages that focus on simple, somewhat banal routines that become highlights of our days in lockdown, and the videos or animations sent back as interpretative responses to these previous audio messages. Once the audio is sent, its ownership is shared between the two artists, as our visual responses derive from the received recordings and the receiver’s personal experiences read into the tapes.
Kelly Rose Adams
- “Harbord and Spadina”
- Oil on Canvas
- 30″ x 36″
- 2020
I tend to expect that contentment is just around the corner, just after the next life step, close, but always in the elusive future. This painting depicts the road that I’ve always hoped would take me to some sort of grand completion of self.
Covid-19 and the resulting quarantine forced me to find comfort in the present, in what I have now, instead of what I’m striving to achieve. I’ve finally begun to realize that the path is endless, and I can choose to come home, to my body, to this moment, here and now, as this moment is all we will ever actually have.
Emma White
- Untitled (1)
- 9” X 11”
- Oil on Paper
- 2019
These images are all based on photographs taken through a car window on my way home from a long trip. The feeling of approaching the city limits after being away for an extended period of time triggers a strange fluttery sensation in my chest, and a wave of nostalgia and anticipation washes over me. As Toronto businesses begin to open again, it currently feels strange and uncomfortable – but we will probably fall back into the comfort of the pre-COVID-19 way of life more quickly than expected. To me, this is Coming Home.
Anupa Perera
- Fluidity of the time
- Water color on paper ( negative)
- 8″ x 8″
Borders that mark our everyday space is fuzzier than ever before. Experiencing a complete disruption of normalcy, the line between work-home-leisure is completely blurred. Disrupted by elements of chaos – things are no longer what they seem.This work is how I feel about the fluidity of the time we are living in.
Nada Hamatto
- Summer
- Mixed Media
- 150 x 150mm
Canadian artist based in Alberta and Toronto. Hamatto is known for her expressionist emotions large scale portraits using two different techniques between brushes and palette knives.
Ravi Brian Persaud
- I’M ON A BOAT
- Photograph
- 16” x 24”
- $350
I strive to help people see the beauty of their environment thru photography. My goal will always be making those who believe they are not creative, see the daily artistry they put forth thru everything from picking out their clothes, trimming the hedges, or even making a sandwich.
Michelle Marin
- Eternal Spring
- Yarn and Acrylic Paint on Linen
- 30 inches x 24 inches
Eternally Spring by Michelle Marin reverently features a domestic scene filled with familiar and treasured objects. Everyday household items are reverently hand embroidered in bold colours and thick and thin textures. To the artist, home is a place of comfort that supports her in distilling challenges that she encounters in her field as a frontline healthcare worker. Whereas life outside the home pre, during and post COVID-19 was, is and will be ever changing, home life is a place of stillness and routine.
Leala Hewak
My practice inquires into relationships between collecting, curating, materialism, modernism, nostalgia and the self. I welcome chance operation and coincidence as essential partners in my artistic output. Working in non-traditional photo-documentary ,I often focus on the Modernist/Brutalist landscape. In the last three years, my work has evolved to include digital collages, which I present for your consideration. These images often incorporate my own photographs. This two-pronged approach has resulted in 15 bodies of work since 2012. I self identify as disabled. My work explores tension between urgent desires to collect/hoard/systematically organize and an ongoing struggle with disorganization, scattered thoughts, and impulse control. However, paradoxically, my disability is sometimes a sort of “super-power.” For example, I found learning Photoshop quite difficult and ended up developing alternate methods of using the program which resulted in unique, “painterly” effects, evident in my collages.
Robert Teteruck
Beijing airport 1 – image size 10.5×10.5″
Coming home from far away in a world we may never see again…
Hayoung Jung
- Very private space 1
- Oil & Acrylic on canvas
- 2019
- 122 x 91.5cm (48 x 36in)
This drawing shows space that is located in the inner mind. Since I was young, I felt insecure and stressed from dissatisfaction of not having my own space at home. I decided to express my own space as a high sky on the canvas, so no one can approach or see my emotional expression. This shows how people want their personal space from their heart. I am trying to show how peaceful and silent personal space has special meaning or brings satisfaction physically and mentally to modern people through the drawing. In addition, I hope the silence can be seen to the audience. Not only that but I desire it to continue forever.
Candace Cosentino
Yesterday feels like a year ago and it feels like i’ve lived a thousand lives since then, too.
Dizzy days of distant interaction and now-preferred solitude;
I have been all of you at once, yet know none of you at all.
Our collective consciousness is heavy and dark but changing.
We’ve never been meant to tamper with things anyways.
Patching up cracks in this canvas will never rid us of the scars we’ve left behind.
Candace Cosentino
Monique Martin
- Flight Time (Diptych)
- 2 x 2” 5cm x 5cm (unframed)
- Collage on Stonehenge
The butterflies in this piece are used a symbol for the fragile state of the human condition during this unique time. We are tentative to go outside, our normal routines are disrupted and changing daily. The unknown outside home, is like the caterpillar having to change into a chrysalis. The caterpillar can’t avoid change, it is rendered defenceless by becoming a chrysalis, we cannot avoid the changes either and sometimes feel defenceless. The fragile wing on the butterfly is reminiscent of the fragility we all feel right now when we leave home. As humans in order to grow, we have to change, do a metamorphosis to be able to survive and return to a semblance of normal. Like a butterfly we can change, and emerge stronger and better at the end of all of this.
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Sarah Zanchetta
Week 12
Quarantine Quilts create spaces of comfort in a time where emotions of unease fill the air. Built from fabric scraps and materials of childhood wonder, they protect the viewer in a warm embrace. Their embroidered messages hint back to conversations once had with loved ones and friends. They relay the desire for connection through communication during these difficult times.
Khaula Mazhar
The Wound is the Place Where the Light Enters You. (Rumi) From an exhibition on immigration, this piece is about “coming home”. 22 X 28 inches, acrylic.
My art conveys my fascination with nature, both the natural world as well as the nature of people. We have a deep connection, our behaviours mimicking that of the natural world more often than we imagine. I am an avid admirer of the Sufi, Rumi, his simple yet profoundly truthful and deep words, that often state our connection to each other and the world around us, seep into my art. Much of my work is titled after the Rumi quote that inspired me to paint the piece. Like the Sufi philosophy of life, I prefer simple things, I am a minimalist even in my art. To make an impact I rely on the play of light and shadow with intense colours to give a Chiaroscuro effect to my paintings to convey familiarity and mystery at the same time.
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Joanne Shenfeld
- Floral I
- 13″ x 13″
- Acrylic, collage and mixed media on paper
- $275 framed
At the start of the pandemic, I found it difficult to focus and create. Bright and comforting floral images helped ground me, and allowed me to get back my ability to see and paint. These are some of the works from a few weeks ago.
Maryam Zaraimajin
- Spider tail Viper
- April 2020
- 12″ x 10″
- raw clay
Pandemic made it so hard to be creative; I tried to grasp on any cord to reach and keep on making art. I played with many type of material to ease my restless mind. I made a series of miniature carpets, and played with clay. From all things I made during the pandemic the Spider tale Viper made me think a lot. This snake is known as one of the scariest creature that lives in west of Iran on mountains. I kept it raw on purpose because at this stage the clay is very fragile and vulnerable. I put signs around it, so no one can touch it. Any wrong action could destroy or damage it badly. The question is: would all my cautions and warning signs help it survive till the end of quarantine?
Maureen Da Silva
This suite of works was an accidental series, starting with “Who’s A Good Dog”, a work that I made as a fun and irreverent family gift for the holidays, featuring my dog. My methodology was to silkscreen a few versions on various papers and to cut out pieces to create an edition of images that feature fun sofa covers.
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Robert Snikkar
- Coming Home
- 24 x 24 inches
- oil on canvas
An abstract treatment of returning home – I feel that the lines should be hand painted or they die/are stillborn – the lines need that subtle variation to pull the eye in to their movement.
James McCallan
“The Neighbourhood” is a series of digital photos I’ve been making while displaced by the COVID pandemic. Sensing the travel restrictions early on, I boarded one of the last trains from Toronto to be with family in Montréal. I’m still here after four months and grappling with feelings of retreat, constraint, and uncertainty about my return.
James McCallan
What started out as a casual diversion during the lockdown, snapping photos of homes in the neighbourhood, reflects a deeper account of my thoughts and feelings in situ. I find myself questioning notions of identity, community, transition, and of course the realities of this crisis and its developments. The images I’m producing could be simply seen as portraits of houses or they could be understood as portraits of myself at this point in time.
Sora (Maryam) Kheiry
- Into Within
- 42″ x 29.5″
- Mix Media on Paper
Future is something between hope, fear, and doubt.
Past, although, is the lost times filled mostly with regret.
Present, by definition, is a period of time between these two points.
Present, feels being in home, for me, Safe and Fluent.
Return home, Will bring rest and silence with it. Home is inside an individual.
Isa Cunanan
- “Spring lamb”
- 2019
- 30 x 40 inches
- Oil pastel on acid-free illustration board